Scott Thompson (born April 16, 1971) is an American

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. He is best known for his appearances with the

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under the

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King Kong in the early 1990s and later worked as Krusher Kong on the wrestling

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. Thompson teamed up with another wrestler, Dwain McCullough, known as Awesome Kong to form a regular

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known as The Colossal Kongs.

Professional wrestling career

Thompson made his professional wrestling debut on the

in 1989 working under the

Big Hoss Mcalister. Initially he worked for a promotion called World Wrestling Association (WWA) based in

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. In the WWA he formed a

with Chief Thunder Mountain and together they became the first holders of the WWA Tag Team Championship in early 1989. On October 21, 1989 they lost the championship to a team called The Motor City Madmen ( Al The Sledgehammer & Mike Moore), but regained it on May 5, 1990. The team's second and final run as the WWA Tag Team Champions ended on May 25, 1991 as they were defeated by a team known as "The Lords of Darkness" (

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and

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). Thompson had returned briefly to the WWA to drop the titles after having competed in Japan for

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(AJPW) for several months prior. In AJPW he worked as "Texas Terminator Hoss" or sometimes just "Texas Terminator" and competed in the 1991

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tournament. During the tournament he only earned 2 points by defeating

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while losing to

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and

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. On April 20, 1991 he defeated

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for the

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and lost it to TNT on June 1, 1991. In 1992, Thompson began working for the

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-based

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(USWA). In the USWA he was known as "Meat", teamed up with another wrestler known as "Potatoes" to for a team called "The Fat Boys". At USWA's Night of Champions, the duo defeated Tony Falk and Jim Steele in the lone highlight for the team. While in the USWA Thompson became friends with a wrestler known as "The Awesome Kong" and the two decided to form a tag team. Being similar in stature to Awesome Kong Thompson began to wrestle wearing a black

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as well as growing his beard out as he wrestled as "King Kong", collectively King Kong and Awesome Kong were known as "The Colossal Kongs". In mid-1993 the Kongs worked for Big D Pro Wrestling (BDPW) as well as the

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-based

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(GWF). During their tenure in the GWF they were involved in a storyline against the then reigning GWF Tag Team Champion The Ebony Experience (

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and

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), but never won the championship. In the same year, the team signed with

(WCW). In WCW they were managed by

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, the duo competed in WCW's tag team division. Their first real match on a national level took place as

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where the team lost to

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and

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. Later on both of the Colossal Kong's competed in the 1993

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tournament part of the WCW

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(PPV) of the same name. In the tournament King Kong teamed up with

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to defeat Awesome Kong and The Equalizer, with the storyline being that the teams were "randomly drawn" to face off. Winning the match meant that King Kong was one of 20 wrestlers competing in a

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at the end of the night, won by

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. King Kong would also work WCW's 1993

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show, losing to The Shockmaster in a singles match. The PPV loss was one of Thompson's last matches for WCW, after which he returned to the independent circuit in Texas. At this point he had tweaked his ring name outside of WCW to "Krusher Kong" instead of the more generic "King Kong". In Texas he held the NWA Brass Knuckles Championship for 73 days, until he lost it to Eclipse on August 14, 1998. He would later hold the Pro Wrestling Championship (PCW) title in 2001 as well as the Texas Championship Wrestling (later renamed Xtreme Championship Wrestling) singles title and the tag team titles twice in 2003. Kong wrestled his last match in 2010.

Championships and accomplishments

* NWA Southwest ** NWA Brass Knuckles Championship ( 1 time) *Professional Championship Wrestling **PCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) *''

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'' **PWI ranked King Kong # 236 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the

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in 1993 *Texas Championship Wrestling / Xtreme Championship Wrestling **TCW / XCW Heavyweight Championship (2 time) **XCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with The Bull * Texas Wrestling Hall of Fame **Class of 2012 *World Wrestling Association (New Jersey) **WWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Chief Thunder Mountain *

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( 1 time) *''

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'' ** Worst Tag Team (1993) with Awesome Kong

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krusher Kong American male professional wrestlers Living people Masked wrestlers Professional wrestlers from Texas Sportspeople from Dallas 1957 births WWC Television Champions