Rodney Anoaʻi
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.
Acting
TV
Raw
as Yokozuna
1993
Movie
WWE WrestleMania XII
as Yokozuna
1996
Movie
WWE WrestleMania X
as Yokozuna
1994
Movie
WWE WrestleMania IX
as Yokozuna
1993
Movie
WWE WrestleMania XI
as Yokozuna
1995
TV
Biography: WWE Legends
2021
Movie
WWE: Tombstone - The History of the Undertaker
as Yokozuna
2005
Movie
WWE Royal Rumble 1994
as Yokozuna
1994
Movie
WWE Royal Rumble 1993
as Yokozuna
1993
Movie
Hard Knocks : The Chris Benoit Story
as Yokozuna (archive footage)
2004
Movie
WWE Survivor Series 1992
as Yokozuna
1992
Movie
WWE King of the Ring 1993
as Yokozuna
1993
Movie
WWE Survivor Series 1995
as Yokozuna
1995
Movie
WWE Survivor Series 1996
as Yokozuna
1996
Movie
WWE Royal Rumble 1996
as Yokozuna
1996
Movie
The 50 Greatest Finishing Moves in WWE History
as Yokozuna
2012
Movie
WWE: Greatest Wrestling Stars of the '90s
as Yokozuna
2009
Movie
WWE King of the Ring 1994
as Yokozuna
1994
Movie
L'homme au masque d'or
as Le Lutteur Hawaïen
1991
Movie
WWE Survivor Series 1993
as Yokozuna
1993
Movie
WWE King of the Ring 1995
as Yokozuna
1995
Movie
WWE: Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology
as Yokozuna
2006
Movie
Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive!
as Yokozuna
1994
Movie
WWE Hall Of Fame 2012
2012