Rodney Anoaʻi
Acting • Born 1966-10-02 – Died 2000-10-23
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.
Filmography
74 credits
WWF Stars and Stripes Challenge
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
Movie • 2006
Self - Yokozuna
WWE Bloopers Bleeps and Bodyslams
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Global Warfare
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE Paul Bearer's Hits From the Crypt
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWF World Tour '96
Movie • 1997
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleFest '95
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
German Fan Favorites
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE SlamFest
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE Bashed in the USA
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
Inside the WWF
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Invasion of the Bodyslammers
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
Razor Ramon
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleMania XI
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleMania XII
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker
Movie • 2005
Yokozuna
The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History
Movie • 2012
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series 1992
Movie • 1992
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE In Your House
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE In Your House 2: Lumberjacks
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE In Your House 4: Great White North
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series 1995
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE King of the Ring 1995
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE SummerSlam 1996
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series 1996
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
Best Of Raw • Volume One
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
Movie • 2006
Yokozuna
WWF Sunday Night Slam • November 20th, 1994
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
The History Of WrestleMania
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Hall Of Fame 2012
Movie • 2012
Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection
Movie • 2009
WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 3 Unreleased
Movie • 2016
WWF European Rampage 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE: True Giants
Movie • 2014
WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s
Movie • 2009
Yokozuna
Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man
Movie • 2018
Heroes of Wrestling
Movie • 1999
Yokozuna
AWA SuperClash IV
Movie • 1990
Kokina Maximus
WWE In Your House 3: Triple Header
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleFest '94
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE In Your House 8: Beware of Dog
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
WWE Royal Rumble 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE March to WrestleMania IX
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleMania IX
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE King of the Ring 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE SummerSlam Spectacular 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE SummerSlam 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1993
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE Royal Rumble 1994
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE March to WrestleMania X
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE WrestleMania X
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE King of the Ring 1994
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series Showdown 1994
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Survivor Series 1994
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
WWF Off the Top Rope
Movie • 1995
Yokozuna
L'homme au masque d'or
Movie • 1991
Le Lutteur Hawaïen
WWF Summer Flashback!
Movie • 1997
Yokozuna
The Undertaker
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
Bret "Hit Man" Hart
Movie • 1994
Yokozuna
Bret "Hit Man" Hart: His Greatest Matches
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE UK Rampage '93
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story
Movie • 2004
Yokozuna (archive footage)
All Aboard the Lex Express
Movie • 1993
Yokozuna
WWE Terminators '96
Movie • 1996
Yokozuna
Raw
TV • 1993
Yokozuna
WWF Wrestling Challenge
TV • 1986
Yokozuna
Biography: WWE Legends
TV • 2021
WWE Sunday Night Slam
TV • 1994
Yokozuna
WWE Hall of Fame
TV • 2005
Yokozuna (Archive footage)