Born | June 11, 1950 |
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Residence | Fort Worth, Texas |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Iceman Parsons King Parsons |
Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
Billed weight | 245 lb (111 kg; 17.5 st) |
Billed from | St. Louis, Missouri |
Trained by | Nick Kozak |
Debut | 1979 |
Retired | 2005 |
King Bailey Parsons Jr. (born June 11, 1950) is a former professional wrestler better known by his ring name Iceman King Parsons.
Parsons started wrestling in 1979 after being trained by Nick Kozak. King started for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Paul Boesch Promotion in Houston, Texas. Boesch contacted Don Owen and was successful in landing a job for King in the NWA's Pacific Northwest territory. Both Don and Elton Owen promoted in Washington and Oregon. While in the promotion, he teamed with Rocky Johnson and won the tag team title. King moved to Barling, Arkansas and lived there while working for the Tulsa promotion and Leroy McGuirk circa 1978–79. King moved to Worland, Wyoming and wrestled for the Rocky Mountain Wrestling promotion for about a year, wrestling in Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. Bill Ash booked all the talent and the matches.
In 1982, he moved on to Jim Crockett Promotions where he teamed with Porkchop Cash and feuded with Don Kernodle and Jim Nelson over the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship. In 1984, because of talents and booking agent changes in Charlotte, in 1983 King then moved on to World Class Championship Wrestling. He feuded with the One Man Gang and Chris Adams. Parsons feuded with Freebird Buddy Roberts who cut his hair They ended the feud late June 1983 with Parsons using the Freebird hair cream to render Roberts bald. early Dec 1983 he then was kayfabe burnt by Skandor Akbar's flame thrower in a match between him Junkyard Dog vs The Super Destroyers Super Destroyer #1 & Super Destroyer #2 with Akbar ringside leaving Parson with a kayfabe disfigurement teeming with Brian Adias against the Super Destroyers at WCCW Wrestling Star Wars December of 1983 he would almost win the NWA American Tag Team Championship but owing the Super Destroyers throwing Adias over the top rope The Super Destroyers would retain the belts