Rodney Anoaʻi

Acting

Born Oct 02, 1966

From San Francisco, California, USA

Died Oct 23, 2000

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.

Rodney Anoaʻi

Known For

WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog

WWE Survivor Series 1995

Inside the WWF

WWE WrestleMania X

WWE WrestleMania XI

WWE Survivor Series 1996

WWE Royal Rumble 1996

WWE WrestleMania IX

WWE WrestleMania XII

WWE SummerSlam 1993

Filmography — Acting

WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog

WWE Survivor Series 1995

Inside the WWF

WWE WrestleMania X

WWE WrestleMania XI

WWE Survivor Series 1996

WWE Royal Rumble 1996

WWE WrestleMania IX

WWE WrestleMania XII

WWE SummerSlam 1993

WWE Survivor Series 1994

WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker

WWE In Your House

L'homme au masque d'or

WWE King of the Ring 1994

WWE Survivor Series 1993

The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History

WWE Royal Rumble 1993

WWE Survivor Series 1992

WWE Royal Rumble 1994

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

WWE King of the Ring 1993

The History Of WrestleMania

WWF Summer Flashback!

WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s

WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage

WWE Global Warfare

Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story

WWE March to WrestleMania X

Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches

WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks

WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams

Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!

WWE SummerSlam 1996

Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man

WWE: True Giants

WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers

WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993

WWE Bashed in the USA

Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased

WWF European Rampage 1993

Bret "Hit Man" Hart

WWE King of the Ring 1995

German Fan Favorites

WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header

WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em

Best Of Raw • Volume One

WWE Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt

WWE WrestleFest '95

Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story

WWE Hall Of Fame 2012

Heroes of Wrestling

WWE UK Rampage '93

WWE In Your House 4: Great White North

AWA SuperClash IV

WWE March to WrestleMania IX

WWE WrestleFest '94

WWE SlamFest

WWF Off the Top Rope

WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994

Razor Ramon

WWF World Tour '96

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994

WWE Terminators '96

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993

All Aboard the Lex Express