Rodney Agatupu Anoa?i 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 term yokozuna refers to the highest rank in professional sumo wrestling in Japan. Although the "Yokozuna" character was portrayed as a champion sumo wrestler, Anoa?i had 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. In the WWF, Anoa?i was a two-time WWF Champion and two-time Tag Team Champion, 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 in the main event of WrestleMania IX and the 1993 King of the Ring, to win his two WWF Championships, and also headlined WrestleMania X against Hart. Anoa?i was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012. 

October 2nd, 1966 in San Francisco  /  Died:   Oct 23rd, 2000 - aged 34