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 SlamFest
German Fan Favorites
Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches
Biography: WWE Legends
WWE WrestleMania X
AWA SuperClash IV
L'homme au masque d'or
Razor Ramon
The Undertaker
WWE Hall of Fame
WWE Sunday Night Slam
WWE WrestleMania XI
WWE Survivor Series 1995
Inside the WWF
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
Invasion of the Bodyslammers
WWE Bashed in the USA
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History
WWE WrestleMania IX
Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection
WWE Royal Rumble 1993
WWF Summer Flashback!
WWE SummerSlam 1996
WWE Survivor Series 1996
WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker
WWE Survivor Series 1993
WWE WrestleFest '95
WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s
WWE Survivor Series 1992
The History Of WrestleMania
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
WWE WrestleMania XII
WWE Royal Rumble 1994
WWE King of the Ring 1993
WWE Survivor Series 1994
WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks
Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man
WWE King of the Ring 1994
Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993
WWE March to WrestleMania IX
WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams
Smack 'Em Whack 'Em
WWE King of the Ring 1995
WWE In Your House 4: Great White North
Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story
WWE In Your House
WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage
WWE SummerSlam 1993
WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993
Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!
WWE Hall Of Fame 2012
WWE March to WrestleMania X
WWE: True Giants
Bret "Hit Man" Hart
WWE Global Warfare
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994
WWF World Tour '96
Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header
WWF WrestleFest '94
Best Of Raw • Volume One
WWF European Rampage 1993
WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994
Heroes of Wrestling
WWE UK Rampage '93
WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge
WWF Off the Top Rope
All Aboard the Lex Express
