WCW's Dungeon Of Doom: Where Are They Now?

14. The Master

Every demonic cabal needs a leader, and while Kevin Sullivan may have been directing the troops on the ground, the mind behind The Dungeon’s madness was ‘The Master’, a mysterious overseer who would welcome new members into the group. Portrayed by Hawaiian territorial mainstay King Curtis Iaukea, The Master cut a fairly imposing figure sat atop his throne. Although he might have been covered in fake cobwebs and chalk, he was still a 400+ pound monster with a forehead full of scar tissue.

Sounding like a cross between Brian Blessed and Immortan Joe, The Master would bark such quotable lines as: “Now! I give you a warrior who knows no pain nor pleasure, who has walked in darkness, walked in light. I give you a warrior who will be the biggest key of all, because he is the brother of lightness himself: The Man from the Zodiac!”

Iaukea was a former WWWF Tag Team champion, after a reign with Baron Mikel Scicluna in 1972. Unfortunately, Iaukea’s love of ‘colour’ would catch up with him. After blading left The Master with deep scars, he caught an infection from a wrestling mat in 1979, which would eventually force him to retire from in-ring competition. Later in life, Iaukea ran a concessions stand with his wife, and raced pigeons from his home in Hawaii, before passing away in December 2010, aged 73.