Armor King (アーマー・キング Āmā Kingu?) was a rival of King’s when the latter was still an inexperienced wrestler. One of his eyes accidentally got damaged during a fight with King. Armor King eventually disappeared from the official Lucha Libre scene but showed unrivaled prowess in shady fights. When his rival and friend King ran away, choosing the path of the drunkard, Armor King became worried and intervened just in time, as King was at the edge of a breakdown. Finding King distraught and drunk in an alleyway, he convinced him to get back into the spirit of fighting and enter the second tournament. In that game, he is also revealed to suffer from an unknown sickness (as shown by his heartbeat and drops of blood in his ending). Years later, King was attacked and killed by Ogre. However, Armor King saw a new fighter with a jaguar mask step into the wrestling ring in order to save the orphanage, and decided to train him to become the second King. Before The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, Craig Marduk started a bar brawl in Arizona. Armor King participated, but he was brutally beaten to the point that because of his sickness, he died. This is the extent of his involvement in this game, as he does not make an actual appearance, but instead becomes King’s reason for entering the tournament, for revenge. Armor King returned supposedly in Tekken 5 where he attacked Marduk and left King confused. However, it was revealed in the next title, Tekken 6, that this new figure is actually the original’s younger brother who seeks revenge on Marduk for killing his brother.
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