Early career Smith made his professional wrestling debut in 1987 where he worked for both
World Wrestling Federation and
Jim Crockett Promotions as Rex King. He lost to
the Ultimate Warrior on WWF Wrestling Challenge on December 10.
Southern Rockers/Well Dunn Smith gained his first championship success while competing for
Pacific Northwest Wrestling (PNW). He formed a tag team with Steve Doll, who was competing as one-half of the Southern Rockers with Scott Peterson. Smith, competing as Rex King, replaced Peterson. The new Southern Rockers won the
NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship four times from 1989 to 1990. King also has success as a singles wrestler, as he won the
NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship by defeating
Scotty The Body, and
NWA Pacific Northwest Television Championship during this period. King and Doll left PNW in February 1990 to compete for the
United States Wrestling Association (USWA). They held the
USWA World Tag Team Championship three times together before Doll returned to PNW. King remained in USWA, took on a new partner,
Joey Maggs, and won the title belts for a fourth time. King and Doll were not apart for long, however, as they returned to the USWA and won the tag team titles for the fourth time as a team and King's fifth time altogether. Their ring attire led wrestling author RD Reynolds to state that the team was "proof positive that bow ties and thongs do not match". Well Dunn competed against such teams as
The Smoking Gunns and
Men on a Mission. Shortly after their debut, however, Well sustained an injury and the team left the WWF. Well Dunn returned to the WWF in 1994 and continued facing the promotions top teams, including
The Headshrinkers, who held the
WWF Tag Team Championship. When the title was vacated later that year, Well Dunn entered a tournament to determine the new champions. They were eliminated in the first round by
Bob Holly and the
1-2-3 Kid, however. The team's biggest feud in the WWF was with The Bushwhackers. Matches between the teams were featured on the company's primary television show,
Monday Night Raw, as well as a compilation video released by the WWF.
Singles wrestler Well Dunn left the WWF in 1995 after losing matches to several of the company's top teams. Later that year, he took the place of
Shane Sewell as a member of the Canadian Glamour Boys Tag Team with
Sean Morley. They won the promotion's tag team title on November 26, 1995, and held it until the following March. After they lost the belts, Morley resumed teaming with Sewell. King returned to competing for WWC in Puerto Rico, where he defeated Jose Rivera Jr. on February 12, 2000, to win the
WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship. While still holding the Puerto Rican title, he also won the Television Championship for a third time, defeating Glamour Boy Shane (Sewell) for the belt on March 19. One week later, he lost the Puerto Rican title, but he held the Television Championship for over a year. In September 2001, King sustained an injury while competing in Puerto Rico, during a match with
Mustafa Saed, and retired as a full-time wrestler, although he returned to wrestle on some independent shows until 2004. ==Personal life==