Cast

Rodney Anoaʻi

Acting

Cast

Rodney Anoaʻi

Known for

Acting

Born

1966-10-02

From

San Francisco, California, USA

Died

2000-10-23

Also known as Yokozuna, Kokina Maximus, The Great Kokina

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.

Rodney Anoaʻi

Rodney Anoaʻi

Biography

WWE Survivor Series 1995

WWE SlamFest

WWE WrestleMania X

L'homme au masque d'or

WWE March to WrestleMania IX

The Undertaker

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993

The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History

Razor Ramon

WWE Royal Rumble 1993

WWE WrestleMania IX

WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em

WWE WrestleMania XI

WWE King of the Ring 1993

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased

Inside the WWF

WWE Royal Rumble 1996

WWE Survivor Series 1996

WWE WrestleFest '94

WWE WrestleMania XII

WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge

WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers

WWE Survivor Series 1994

Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!

German Fan Favorites

WWF Summer Flashback!

AWA SuperClash IV

WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker

WWE King of the Ring 1995

WWE Royal Rumble 1994

WWE Survivor Series 1992

WWE King of the Ring 1994

WWE In Your House 4: Great White North

WWE SummerSlam 1996

WWE Bashed in the USA

WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology

WWE Terminators '96

WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage

WWE SummerSlam 1993

WWE In Your House

Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story

WWE March to WrestleMania X

Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection

The History Of WrestleMania

WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams

WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog

WWE WrestleFest '95

WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993

WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header

Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story

Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches

WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s

WWE Survivor Series 1993

WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks

WWE: True Giants

WWE UK Rampage '93

WWF Off the Top Rope

Bret "Hit Man" Hart

WWF World Tour '96

WWE Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt

WWF European Rampage 1993

WWE Hall Of Fame 2012

Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man

WWE Global Warfare

All Aboard the Lex Express

Best Of Raw • Volume One

WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994

Heroes of Wrestling

WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994