Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional U.S. promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s.

Under the name "Iau Kea" he appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze with Moe Howard declaring "That's not a man!

He attended Punahou School and the University of California Berkeley as an economics major where he lettered as a lineman until he dropped out.

[5] Teaming with Haru Sasaki, the two would capture the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Titles on January 19, 1962, holding them for two months.

A year later, while traveling between Oregon and the Hawaiian Islands, King Curtis would capture the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Title on September 5, 1963,[6] In Australia, King Curtis was a part of the face tag team known as the People's Army with Mark Lewin and Spiros Arion.

In ICW, known as King Curtis, he managed Kevin Sullivan and Mark Lewin, taking on the gimmick of a crazed cult leader.

Curtis Iaukea re-appeared briefly in the WWF promotion in 1986 as The Wizard, a manager and mouthpiece for Kamala.