- Weighed between 440 and 502 pounds during his wrestling career.
- Always ask for a 5 count (instead of 3) at the end of his matches
- Used several names during his wrestling career such as: King Kong Bundy, Boom Boom Bundy, Big Daddy Bundy, Chris Canyon or Man Mountain Canyon.
- The story that the Bundy family in Married... with Children (1987) was named after him is not true. The family was named after the street one of the show's writers lived on.
- Wrestled in a mixed tag team match at WrestleMania III (1987), which pitted himself and midget wrestlers Shigeru Akabane and Eric Tovey against Jim Morris (aka k"Hillbilly Jim") and his midget tag-team partners, Little Beaver and 'The Haiti Kid'. The end of the match saw Bundy, at 450 pounds, body-slam the under-100-pound Little Beaver and then give him a huge elbow drop. This caused Bundy's team to be disqualified.
- Began began his career as a face in Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling as Big Daddy Bundy. Von Erich turned him heel and gave him the name "King Kong" Bundy.
- Pallies now operates a wrestling training school and runs shows in New Jersey with a promotion called Devastation Wrestling Federation.
- Auditioned for a role in Wall Street (1987).
- Is doing stand up comedy (January 2008)
- Occasionally, he still wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation.
- 1983 PWI Wrestling Rookie of the Year, 1st runner-up.
- Notable title wins include NWA (Dallas) American Heavyweight title; NWA American Tag Team titles; NWA National Tag Team titles; AWA Southern Heavyweight title; AWA Southern Tag Team titles w/Rick Rude; AWA Superstars World title; ASWA Heavyweight title; Maryland Championship Wrestling Heavyweight title (2).
- Makes personal appearences at "gentlemen's clubs" that feature forms of female wrestling. (May 2004)
- According to Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy was rather overzealous appearing in steel cage matches. Hogan found this out when Bundy cracked one of his ribs during their cage match at Wrestlemania II.
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