Professional wrestling journalist and historian Dave Meltzer credits King as one of the first African-American wrestlers ever to hold a championship in WWWF, which would later become WWE.

[8] While partnering with The Angel in the Continental Wrestling Association in 1980, he won the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship.

[9] While waiting for a card to start in the Carolinas, he noticed a male force his way into an arena past an elderly security guard.

When Johnson confronted the man, he was stabbed numerous times, during which he suffered a punctured lung and the knife nicked his heart.

[4] After retiring from wrestling, he worked in a junkyard in South Florida, buying and selling car parts.