Yokozuna (wrestler), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yokozuna (wrestler)

American professional wrestler

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1966

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 23-Oct-2000

Profession: actor, professional wrestler, amateur wrestler

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Yokozuna (wrestler)

  • Rodney Agatupu Anoa?i (October 2, 1966 – October 23, 2000) was an American professional wrestler best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna.
  • The name was a reference to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. Although the Yokozuna character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoa?i never competed as an actual sumotori.
  • Though Yokozuna wrestled as a representative of Japan, in real life Anoa?i was Samoan American and was accordingly billed as hailing from Polynesia.
  • However, he was managed by the Japanese character Mr.
  • Fuji (in reality a Japanese American), who would follow Anoa?i to the ring with a wooden bucket of salt and waving a Japanese flag.In the WWF, Anoa?i was a two-time WWF World Heavyweight Champion and two-time WWF 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 World Heavyweight Championship as well as the first Royal Rumble winner who as a result of a direct stipulation received a WWF's world championship title shot at WrestleMania.
  • He defeated WWE Hall of Famers Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan, in consecutive pay-per-view victories in the main event of WrestleMania IX and the 1993 King of the Ring, to win his two WWF World Heavyweight Championships, and also headlined WrestleMania X against Hart.
  • He was the third fastest newcomer after Brock Lesnar and Sheamus to win the WWF or WWE Championship after his debut.
  • Anoa?i was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.

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