King Kong Bundy is dead

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Reports declared to return back out merely once an hour, and WWE this morning confirmed the news - Chris “King Kong Bundy” Pallies died yesterday (Mon., Mar. 4) at age sixty-one.

The 6’ 4”, 400+ pound Bundy was a staple of the Rock ‘n’ Wrestling boom of the Eighties and featured prominently on the first two WrestleMania card - yet as tough Hulk Hogan for the WWF title in an exceedingly} very steel cage match at 1986’s WrestleMania II among the most event from the l.  a.   portion of the three city event.

As a neighborhood of the Heenan Family, Bundy would team with large John Studd for feuds with the likes of British Bulldogs and Andre the large. He parlayed his wrestling success into some crossover diversion work, yet as guest appearances on Fox’s hit broadcast Married... With children.

Pallies, world organization agency hailed from and was trained in New Jersey before starting a run among the territories and Japan with the Von Erichs in Texas’ World class in 1982, retired from wrestling in 1988. He came for a few years among the mid-1990s via ECW that LED to a run with tough guy DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation, but he left WWF for good in 1995.

He continued to wrestle on the independents into this century but hadn’t worked swarming since around 2007. Pallies was a neighborhood of Konstantine Kyros’ 2016 case legal proceeding against WWE for claiming the company did not warn or take care of “long term drugs injuries” incurred by its freelance contractors. That suit was pink-slipped last year.

No specifics are reported regarding his reason behind death, but PWInsider says they were told he’d been dealing with several health issues before the news of his passing.

On behalf of the staff and community of Cageside Seats, we've got an inclination to increase our condolences to Pallies friends, family, and darling ones.