Rodney Anoaʻi
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.
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Credits
- 2023 · Biography: Yokozuna as Yokozuna / Self
- 2021 · Biography: WWE Legends as
- 2018 · Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man as
- 2016 · WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased as
- 2014 · WWE: Presents True Giants as
- 2012 · WWE: 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History as Yokozuna
- 2012 · WWE Hall Of Fame 2012 as
- 2009 · Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection as
- 2009 · WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s as Yokozuna
- 2006 · Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story as Self - Yokozuna
- 2006 · WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology as Yokozuna
- 2005 · WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker as Yokozuna
- 2004 · WWE: Undertaker - He Buries Them Alive as Yokozuna
- 1999 · Heroes of Wrestling as Yokozuna
- 1997 · WWF Summer Flashback! as Yokozuna
- 1997 · WWF World Tour '96 as Yokozuna
- 1996 · Best Of Raw • Volume One as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE Survivor Series 1996 as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE SummerSlam 1996 as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE WrestleMania XII as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage as Yokozuna
- 1996 · WWE Royal Rumble 1996 as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE Survivor Series 1995 as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE In Your House 4: Great White North as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE King of the Ring 1995 as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE In Your House as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE WrestleMania XI as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWF Off the Top Rope as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE SlamFest as Yokozuna
- 1995 · WWE WrestleFest '95 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE Paul Bearer's Hits from the Crypt as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE Survivor Series 1994 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · German Fan Favorites 2 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · Razor Ramon as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWF WrestleFest '94 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE King of the Ring 1994 as Yokozuna
- 1994 · Inside the WWF as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE WrestleMania X as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWF March to WrestleMania X as Yokozuna
- 1994 · The History Of WrestleMania as Yokozuna
- 1994 · WWE Royal Rumble 1994 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Survivor Series 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE SummerSlam 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Global Warfare as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWF Bashed in the USA as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE King of the Ring 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWF European Rampage 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE WrestleMania IX as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE March to WrestleMania IX as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Royal Rumble 1993 as Yokozuna
- 1993 · WWE Raw as Yokozuna (archive footage)
- 1993 · WWE Raw as Yokozuna
- 1992 · WWE Survivor Series 1992 as Yokozuna
- 1990 · AWA SuperClash IV as Kokina Maximus
- 1990 · L'homme au masque d'or as
- 1986 · WWF Wrestling Challenge as Yokozuna