World Class Championship Wrestling
Kevin started wrestling as
Kevin Von Erich in 1976. He spent most of his career wrestling for his father's promotion,
World Class Championship Wrestling.
He teamed with his brothers and had a huge feud against the
Fabulous Freebirds (
Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and
Buddy Roberts), where they had many six-man tag matches.
Kevin also had a long feud with
Chris Adams that lasted for months and had many violent matches. Kevin would also tag-team with Adams on numerous occasions before and after their feud. Away from the ring, Kevin and Chris were close friends; Kevin served as a pallbearer during Adams' funeral in 2001 and traveled to England to visit Adams' family afterwards.
A longtime friend of the Hart family away from the ring, Kevin also represented the Von Erich family in 1999 during the funeral of
Owen Hart.
Kevin was also known for wrestling
barefoot, highly unusual in a sport where almost all wrestlers wear high-topped
boots. Kevin later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before his debut match, someone hid his boots as a rib, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark. Kevin was also a huge fan of
Jimmy Snuka, who also wrestled barefoot, and like Snuka, Kevin often performed a flying body splash from the top rope, which Snuka calls
The Superfly.
Kevin had several close matches with NWA World Champ
Ric Flair, including the main event of the 2nd Memorial show at
Texas Stadium, but never won the title.
