Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who was the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently talked about retired professional wrestler Awesome Kong and explained why it was really difficult to work with her in TNA Wrestling.
Awesome Kong earned her first recognition while working in Japan. She began working in Japan back in 2002 and she became quite popular. In 2007 she came back to America and started working on the independent circuit. She also worked on promotions like Ring Of Honor during this time.
Eric Bischoff Explains Why It Was Difficult To Work With Awesome Kong In TNA Wrestling
On the same year, she signed with TNA Wrestling and she became one of the most valuable assets of the Knockouts division of the promotion. She went on to win the TNA Knockouts Championship two times and also won the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship one time.
In 2010 she got the biggest break of her career as she got to sign for WWE where she had been renamed as Kharma. WWE fans were really excited to see her in the promotion for the first time and everybody was expecting her to get a huge push as everybody knew the obsession of Vince McMahon with big wrestlers.
But Kharma’s career was cut short in WWE as she got pregnant during the time and in 2012 she was released from the promotion. She was the third ever woman to step foot into the men’s Royal Rumble match. After her WWE release she worked in Japan and the independent circuit.
In 2015 she made her return to the Impact Wrestling and had a short one year career in the promotion. But this time she failed to get the recognition she earned earlier. In 2019 she signed with the newly founded professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling and in 2021, she announced her retirement from in ring action.
Eric Bischoff who was the first ever General Manager of Monday Night RAW recently spoke on where he talked about retired professional wrestler Awesome Kong and explained why it was really difficult to work with her in TNA Wrestling. He said;
“She had a great look. She was impressive as hell, she was believable in the ring, but she was difficult to work with. If she was around today, unless she addressed that, because you can have all the tail in the world,” continued Eric Bischoff.
“But if you’re not manageable behind the scenes, by manageable I mean when it came to creative and laying out matches and being professional, unless you can bring that to the table along with your overpowering personality and your character all the things you can do in the ring, you’re not going to make it. You’re not going to last five minutes anywhere.”
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