| The Rikishi Biography
Solofa F. Fatu Jr. was born October 11th 1965 in
San Francisco, California. Rikishi is a wrestler best known in the
WWE and the TNA. And as half of tag team The
Headshrinkers.
Rikishi is 1 time WWE Tag Team
Champion with Scotty 2 Hotty, 2 time WWE World Tag Team Champion with
Samu
and Rico and 1 time WWF Intercontinental Champion.
Rikishi came to
the WCW in 1989 as The Samoan Swat Team and feuded with Midnight Express,
Road Warriors, Steve
Williams, Sid
Vicious and the Skyscrapers till leaving the WCW.
Rikishi came to the WWF in 1992 as a tag
team called The .
He went on to feud with Natural Disasters, High Energy, The Smoking
Gunns, Men on a Mission, The Undertaker, The
Quebecers, Yokozuna, Crush,
Shawn Michaels, Diesel,
Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka till
going solo.
Solofa Fatu started fighting independently
in 1995 and feuded with Rocky Maivia, Viscera,
Edge, Christian, Kurt
Angle, Chris Benoit, Val Venis,
Tazz,
Mick Foley, Stone Cold Steve Austin,
Buddy Rogers,
Bruno Sammartino, Bob
Backlund, Hulk
Hogan, The Rock, the
Undertaker, Kane, Vince McMahon, Billy,
Chuck, John Cena,
Bill DeMott, the Full Blooded Italians,
Rowdy Roddy Piper, Sean O'Haire, the Basham Brothers,
Charlie Haas and Rico
till leaving the
WWE.
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Rikishi went to TNA in 2007 and feuded
with Christian Cage, A.J. Styles and Samoa
Joe till leaving TNA. And now fights in independent wrestling
circuits.
Did you know?
- He fought under ring names such as Fatu,
The Sultan, Alofa the Polynesian Prince, Rikishi, Rikishi Phatu, Samurai Sultan,
Kishi, Sumo Rikishi and Junior Fatu
- Rikishi had managers such as Paul E. Dangerously,
Oliver Humperdink, Afa, Captain Lou Albano, The Iron Sheik,
Bob Backlund and Buddy Roberts
- Rikishi's brother is the late Umaga
- Solofa Fatu was trained by Afa Anoa'i
and
Sika Anoa'i
- Rikishi is the nephew of the Wild
Samoans and Rocky Johnson
- His sons are The
Uso Twins
- The Rock, Yokozuna,
Samu and Rosey are Rikishi's cousins
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