King

**King** is a Mexican professional wrestler and a playable character from the *Tekken* series since the third release.

### Relatives

* Craig Marduk (best friend)
* Armor King (rival)
* Jaycee (rival)

## Profile

### Age

* 24 (debut)
* 28 (Tekken debut)
* 31

## Story

He is known for his lucha libre style and wearing a jaguar mask to hide his true identity from the public.

## Personal life

King has a friendly relationship Armor King and Craig Marduk. Initially, Marduk and King didn't like each other after the former MMA fighter killed his trainer.

King lived in an orphanage and shortly before becoming a luchador, he was adopted by Armor King's older brother.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Burning Hammer* (Inverted Death Valley driver)
	+ *Island Driver* (Sitout side powerslam)
	+ *Jaguar Bomb* (Running or spinning high-angle sitout powerbomb)
	+ *Jaguar Screw Driver* (Vertical suplex piledriver) - adopted from Armor King
	+ *Reverse Special Stretch Bomb* (Reverse Gory bomb)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Argentine backbreaker
	+ Armbreaker
	+ Boston crab, sometimes single leg
	+ Bow and arrow stretch
	+ Camel clutch
	+ *Clothesline Press* (Falling side slam)
	+ *Cobra Twist* (Abdominal stretch)
	+ *Corporate Elbow* (Twisting elbow drop)
	+ Cross armbreaker
	+ Crossface chickenwing
	+ DDT
	+ Diving splash
	+ Diving elbow drop
	+ Dragon screw
	+ Dragon sleeper
	+ Figure-four leglock
	+ Frankensteiner
	+ Giant swing
	+ *Head Bombe*r (Headbutt drop to the opponent's groin)
	+ *Head Jammer* (Russian legsweep)
	+ Heel hook
	+ *Hi-Jack Backbreaker* (Canadian backbreaker)
	+ *Human Necktie* (Stretch muffler)
	+ Indian deathlock
	+ *Jaguar Lariat* (Lariat)
	+ *King's Bridge* (Surfboard)
	+ Kneeling belly-to-belly piledriver
	+ Lifting double underhook facebuster
	+ *Manhattan Drop* (Inverted atomic drop)
	+ Moonsault
	+ Multiple arm drag variations
		- Japanese
		- Over the shoulder
	+ Multiple chop variations
		- Cross
		- Knife-edge
		- Overhead
	+ Multiple kick variations
		- Drop, sometimes to the opponent's knees
		- Enzuigiri
		- Jumping sole
		- *Lasso Kic*k (Leg-feed enzuigiri)
		- Roundhouse
		- Spinning heel
		- Super
		- *Tomahawk* (Shining wizard)
	+ Multiple powerbomb variations
		- *Cannonball Buster* (Belly-to-back)
		- *Jaguar Driver* (Sitout one shoulder)
		- Release
		- *Victory Bomb* (Gutwrench sitout)
	+ Multiple suplex variations
		- Belly-to-back
		- Half nelson
		- German
		- Inverted
		- Vertical
	+ Muscle buster
	+ *Olympia Slam* (Olympic slam)
	+ Palm strike
	+ *Rolling Death Cradle* (Leg hook rolling cradle)
	+ *Rolling Elbow* (Discus elbow smash)
	+ Running leg drop
	+ Running shoulder tackle
	+ *Samurai Rock* (Arm trap single leg Boston crab)
	+ *Scorpion Deathlock* (Sharpshooter)
	+ Shin breaker
	+ Sleeper hold
	+ STF
	+ *Stretch Buster* (Pumphandle slam)
	+ *Tijuana Twister* (Fireman's carry twisted into a spinebuster)
	+ *Viagra Driver* (Pumphandle sitout scoop slam piledriver)
	+ *Winding Nut* (Running tornado DDT)
* **Managers**
	+ Armor King
	+ Craig Marduk

## Trivia

* According to the character's concept art, King's appearance is inspired by Japanese professional wrestler Satoru Sayama, better known as Tiger Mask.

* One of King's signature moves (Muscle buster) is a reference to the Kinniku Buster from the manga character Suguru Kinniku.
	+ Along with his tag team partner Marduk, their moves are taken from the *Kinnikuman* manga series.
		- In the spin-off game *Tekken Tag Tournament 2*, if King teams up with Armor King, they both end the match using a Cross Bomber against their opponent, and this lariat variation is a reference taken from the manga series *Kinnikuman* which Big the Budo and Neptuneman use this technique as a finisher.
* Mike Haggar was his opponent in the opening from the crossover *Street Fighter x Tekken*.

* Out of all the *Tekken* games, King is the first human character who is mute like Armor King and Sergei Dragunov.