Rodney Anoaʻi
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
73
Gender
Male
Birthday
1966-10-02
Day of death
2000-10-23 (34 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Rodney Anoaʻi
Biography
Rodney Agatupu Anoaʻi was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with The World Wrestling Federation where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. The termyokozuna refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. Although the "Yokozuna" character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoaʻi had never competed as an actual sumotori. Though Yokozuna wrestled as a representative of Japan, he was of Samoan origin and was accordingly billed as hailing from Polynesia (although he was managed by Mr. Fuji, who would follow Anoaʻi to the ring with a wooden bucket of salt, and waving a Japanese flag). In the WWF, Anoaʻi was a two-time WWF Champion and two-time Tag Team Champion (with Owen Hart), as well as the winner of the 1993 Royal Rumble. Anoa'i was the first wrestler of Samoan descent to hold the WWF Championship as well as the first Royal Rumble winner who as a result of a direct stipulation received a world title shot at WrestleMania. He defeated WWE Hall of Famers Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan, in consecutive pay-per-view victories at WrestleMania IX and the1993 King of the Ring, to win his two WWF Championships. He was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.
Known For
Raw
WWF Wrestling Challenge
WWE In Your House 4: Great White North
WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog
WWE Survivor Series 1992
WWE Survivor Series 1994
The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History
WWE Royal Rumble 1994
WWE Hall Of Fame 2012
WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header
WWE Royal Rumble 1993
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
WWE SlamFest
WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks
Biography: WWE Legends
Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story
L'homme au masque d'or
WWF WrestleFest '94
WWF European Rampage 1993
WWE King of the Ring 1994
WWE WrestleMania X
WWE WrestleMania XII
WWE Survivor Series 1993
WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage
WWE UK Rampage '93
WWE In Your House
WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker
WWE WrestleFest '95
Smack 'Em Whack 'Em
WWF World Tour '96
Heroes of Wrestling
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
WWE Survivor Series 1996
German Fan Favorites
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994
AWA SuperClash IV
WWE King of the Ring 1995
WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams
Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches
WWF Off the Top Rope
WWE Hall of Fame
The Undertaker
Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!
WWE: True Giants
WWE Global Warfare
All Aboard the Lex Express
Razor Ramon
WWE WrestleMania XI
WWE Sunday Night Slam
WWE March to WrestleMania IX
Inside the WWF
WWE WrestleMania IX
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993
WWE SummerSlam 1996
Best Of Raw • Volume One
The History Of WrestleMania
Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man
Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection
WWE March to WrestleMania X
WWE SummerSlam 1993
WWF Summer Flashback!
WWE King of the Ring 1993
WWE Bashed in the USA
Invasion of the Bodyslammers
WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s
WWE Survivor Series 1995
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994
Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
Bret "Hit Man" Hart
Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt
WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge
