Afa Anoa'i

Afa Anoa'i (1943 to 2024) was a Samoan-American professional wrestler and wrestling manager, born in Leone, American Samoa, who grew up in San Francisco and served in the U.S. Marine Corps before taking up wrestling. Trained by his uncle Peter Maivia and cousin-in-law Rocky Johnson, he debuted in Phoenix in 1971 and then trained his brother Sika, forming the tag team The Wild Samoans. The pair worked Stampede Wrestling in Canada, National Wrestling Alliance territories, International Wrestling Enterprise in Japan and, managed by Lou Albano, the World Wrestling Federation, where they held the tag team title. After retiring from the ring in the mid 1990s Anoa'i ran the World Xtreme Wrestling promotion and trained wrestlers at the Wild Samoan Training Center in Florida, and the team entered the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007.