Bonus Ep. 8: Kia Stevens on being a wrestler and playing one on TV

Tights and Fights

Maximum Fun

Comedy, Wwe, Danielle Radford, Arts, Hal Lublin, World Wrestling Entertainment, Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Aew, Society & Culture, Lindsey Kelk, Raw, Dynamite, Smackdown

4.6 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our special EXTRA episode as part of the Max Fun Drive! Hal, Danielle and Mike are joined by Kia Stevens. Stevens has wrestled around the world as Awesome Kong and Amazing Kong. She also wrestled for WWE under the name Karma where she was one of three women who entered the original Royal Rumble. Between all of the promotions she’s appeared at, she’s won a total of 13 championships. But these days, she might be more well known for playing Tamme’ “The Welfare Queen” Dawson for the Netflix series “GLOW” She tells the team all about the highlights of her career, what it’s like to teach a group of actors how to wrestle, and why her career in acting all got started when she was passed over for the lead role a grade-school play. This show is made possible by the members of Max Fun who have decided to contribute to Tights and Fights. If you'd like to join them, go to Maximumfun.org/donate and sign up for as little as $5 a month to earn all sorts of great gifts. Hosted by Hal Lublin, Danielle Radford and Mike Eagle. Produced by Julian Burrell for Maximum Fun. If you wanna talk about more wrestling throughout the week be sure to join us on Facebook or @TightsFights on Twitter. If you liked the show, please share it with your friends and be sure to leave us a quick review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.

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0:00.0	Tyson Fight's Podcast is the perfect wrestling podcast.
0:09.6	There's a guy named Hal and there's Daniel, and this guy, my geekle is there as well.
0:19.1	Tyson Fight's Podcast, podcast dyes and fights
0:28.6	welcome to tights and fights the show that discusses wrestling with the sincerity and hilarity that it deserves
0:34.6	i'm hell lublin and i'm joined to the booth by my fellow members of the nation with conversation. Danielle Radford. Michael Eagle. And today we're joined by a special guest
0:42.9	in studio. Kia Stevens has wrestled across the world as Awesome Kong and Amazing Kong.
0:47.7	And here comes Awesome Kong. The TNA knockout champion. Awesome Kong has come out to the ring and check out that focus.
0:57.0	Check out the concentration, the tunnel vision of Awesome Kong.
1:00.0	She was also known as karma during your time in WWE.
1:04.0	We heard about the weeks, the kind of destruction that karma was going to bring to the divas
1:09.0	to look on Kelly Kelly's face.
1:12.3	Tell us the whole story.
1:14.1	Kelly, please get out of the ring.
1:20.2	The most devastating debut of any lady in WWE history.
1:25.3	And recently starred as Teme, the Welfare Queen Dawson, in Netflix's Globe.
1:29.3	I'm about to be a welfare queen, but I don't tolerate no big. Keehan, we don't do you out there, please.
1:32.3	Keehan, welcome to tights and fights.
1:35.3	Hey, thank you for having me.
1:38.3	Coming and hanging out.
1:39.3	There's so much I kind of want to dig into here.
1:41.3	Right.
1:42.3	It's such a pleasure to talk to people who actually work in the industry.
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