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