She is the founder of the Arsion all-women professional wrestling promotion and has won several championships in both singles and tag-team divisions throughout her career, primarily while with All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.

[6] Born Erika Shishido, her mother is Japanese and her father, the late Henry Manigault,[7] an African-American, who worked for US Army at Tachikawa Airfield.

[8] Although her parents were de facto married, they were forced to divorce when Erika was five years old, due to her father's sudden repatriation, and grew up in a single-mother family.

Erika was teased for her "mixed blood" and had fights almost daily, and she continued to suffer from serious bullying up until she graduated from junior high school.

[1] She immediately joined Dump Matsumoto's heel stable Gokuaku Domei ("Atrocious Alliance"), along with classmate and tag team partner Nobuko Kimura.

After the stable dissolved in 1988 due to Matsumoto's retirement, Shishido and Kimura went their separate ways, but re-formed in 1990 as Jungle Jack.

Now called Aja Kong and Bison Kimura, they entered a two-year feud against their former allies Bull Nakano and her heel stable Gokumon-to.

[18] On November 11, 2017, Kong returned to Shimmer Women Athletes joining the Trifecta heel stable with Mercedes Martinez and Nicole Savoy to replace the recently departed (for WWE) Shayna Baszler and appeared in matches the following night as well.

[19] In February 2021, Kong was announced as a participant in a tournament for the AEW Women's World Championship as part of the Japanese bracket.