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King Kamehameha (キングカメハメハ) (horse)

King Kamehameha (キングカメハメハ), Japanese Thoroughbred (2001–2019) by Kingmambo; won the 2004 Japanese Derby in record time, then champion sire 2010–2011, sire of Lord Kanaloa and Duramente, JRA Hall of Fame 2024.

King Kelly

King Kelly (Michael Joseph Kelly, 1857-1894), American 19th-century baseball star of Cincinnati, Chicago White Stockings, and Boston Beaneaters; sold for a record $10,000 in 1887, hit .307 lifetime, played all nine positions, Hall of Fame 1945.

King Kong Bundy

King Kong Bundy (Christopher Pallies, 1957 or 1955 to March 4, 2019) was an American professional wrestler, a 6'4", 458-pound WWE heel famous for the five-count demand, the Avalanche Splash, and the WrestleMania 2 steel cage main event against Hulk Hogan.

King Miller

King Miller, USC Trojans running back, Calabasas High preferred walk-on who redshirted 2024, then ran for 972 yards and 8 touchdowns in 2025 and became USC's showcase back in 2026; not the Saints NFL back Kendre Miller.

King of Meat

King of Meat is a co-op party platformer dungeon crawler by Glowmade, published by Amazon Games, set in the game-show world of Loregok; released October 7, 2025, it peaked at 320 Steam players and shut down April 9, 2026.

King of the Ring

King of the Ring is WWE's long-running men's single-elimination wrestling tournament, first held July 8, 1985 (Don Muraco), a pay-per-view 1993-2002, revived periodically, now paired with Queen of the Ring with a SummerSlam world title shot for the winner.

King of the Ring (1998)

King of the Ring (1998), also styled WWF King of the Ring '98, was a WWF pay-per-view on June 28, 1998 in Pittsburgh, won by Ken Shamrock and remembered for The Undertaker throwing Mankind off the Hell in a Cell.

King of the Ring (2000)

King of the Ring (2000), also WWF King of the Ring 2000, was a WWE pay-per-view on June 25, 2000 at the FleetCenter, Boston. Kurt Angle won the tournament; The Rock won the WWF Championship; 475,000 buys.

King of the Ring (2001)

King of the Ring (2001), ninth annual WWF King of the Ring pay-per-view, June 24, 2001, Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ; Edge won the tournament, Booker T attacked Steve Austin, Angle vs. Shane street fight.

King of the Ring (2002)

King of the Ring (2002), also called WWE King of the Ring 2002, was a WWE pay-per-view on June 23, 2002 in Columbus, Ohio. Brock Lesnar won the tournament, earning a SummerSlam title shot against The Rock; it was the last annual King of the Ring PPV.

King of the Ring (2015)

King of the Ring (2015) was a WWE Network special on April 28, 2015 in Moline, Illinois, where Bad News Barrett beat Neville in the final of an eight-man tournament revived after a five-year gap.

King of the Ring tournament

King of the Ring tournament, also King and Queen of the Ring: WWE single-elimination wrestling tournament first held July 1985 (Don Muraco first winner), a pay-per-view 1993-2002, revived with a SummerSlam title match prize.

King pedro

King Pedro is a four-player partnership trick-taking card game, a Pedro variant in which the king of trumps scores 30 points (44 per hand), played mainly in northeastern USA and Canada, with a Ukrainian-Canadian 62-point version.

King Power Stadium

King Power Stadium, Leicester City FC's home since 2002 on Filbert Way, capacity 32,312, renamed in 2011 after Thai owner King Power; site of the 2016 title and planned 40,000-seat expansion.

King's Field (キングスフィールド)

King's Field (キングスフィールド) is FromSoftware's 1994 PlayStation first-person dark fantasy dungeon crawler RPG, its first video game. Its slow combat, vague storytelling, and difficulty seeded Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and indie games like Lunacid.

King's Gambit

King's Gambit, chess opening after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 (ECO C30–C39), where White sacrifices the f-pawn for development and an open f-file; a 16th-century Romantic-era opening, main line 3.Nf3, risky but popular below elite level.

King's Indian Attack

King's Indian Attack (KIA), also called Barcza System, a chess opening system for White mirroring the King's Indian Defense: pawns d3/e4/g3, Bg2 fianchetto, knights d2/f3; famous Fischer weapon.

King's Indian Defence

King's Indian Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6), a hypermodern chess defense to 1.d4 where Black lets White build a pawn center then attacks it with ...e5 or ...c5; ECO E60–E99, favored by Fischer and Kasparov.

King's Plate

King's Plate, formerly Queen's Plate, Canada's most prestigious thoroughbred horse race and North America's oldest continuously run race, first run June 27, 1860 at Toronto with Queen Victoria's 50-guinea prize; 1 1/4 miles for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds at Woodbine, first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.

King's Quest

King's Quest: Sierra On-Line's graphic fantasy adventure series (1984–1998) created by Roberta Williams, following King Graham's royal family in Daventry; first 3D animated adventure, eight games, 2015 episodic reboot by The Odd Gentlemen.

King's Quest (2015 video game)

King's Quest (2015) is an episodic adventure game by The Odd Gentlemen, published by Sierra, reimagining King Graham's untold tales for granddaughter Gwendolyn across five chapters plus an Epilogue.

King's Valley

King's Valley (Ouou Shogi) is a 2006 Japanese abstract strategy race game by Mitsuo Yamamoto: two players slide kings and soldiers on a 5x5 board, racing to reach the center valley square; no captures, 3-15 minutes per game.

Kinga Czigany

Kinga Czigany (Czigány Kinga), Hungarian sprint kayaker born 1972 in Győr; won gold in women's K-4 500 m at Barcelona 1992, ninth at Atlanta 1996, five world medals, retired 1998, lives in Canada.

Kingdom (video game)

Kingdom (2015) is a minimalist 2D side-scrolling strategy and management game by Thomas van den Berg (Nolo/Licorice), published by Raw Fury, where a monarch spends a single gold resource to build and defend a settlement with permadeath; followed by New Lands, Two Crowns, and announced Kingdom III: Rising Realms (2027).

Kingdom Arena

Kingdom Arena (المملكة أرينا), formerly Boulevard Hall, is a fully covered multi-purpose indoor stadium in Riyadh's Hittin district, opened October 2023, home of Al-Hilal, holding two Guinness records for covered football stadiums.

Kingdom Come (series)

Kingdom Come (series), also Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Warhorse Studios' historically accurate first-person open-world RPG series set in medieval Bohemia starring Henry; two games (2018, 2025), a third announced.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a 2018 action RPG by Warhorse Studios and Deep Silver, set in 1403 Bohemia with no fantasy elements. Known for historical accuracy, five-angle realistic combat, Henry of Skalitz, and its 2025 sequel.

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts (キングダム ハーツ) is an action RPG series created by Square Enix with Disney and directed by Tetsuya Nomura, debuting on PlayStation 2 in 2002.

Kingdom Hearts (video game)

Kingdom Hearts is a 2002 action role-playing game by Square for the PlayStation 2, starring Sora alongside Disney's Donald Duck and Goofy, that began the Kingdom Hearts series.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is a 2009 Square Enix action RPG for Nintendo DS by h.a.n.d. Inc., following Roxas in Organization XIII; Metascore 75, panel system, Mission Mode co-op, later a cutscene film in HD 1.5 ReMIX.