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RIP Afa The Wild Samoan · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: Afa Andoya The Wild Samoan November twenty first, nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: two to August sixteenth, twenty twenty four was a Samoan
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  Speaker 1: American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. He is best
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  Speaker 1: known for performing with his brother Sika as the Wild Samoans.
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  Speaker 1: He operated the World Extreme Wrestling Promotion after he retired
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  Speaker 1: from pro wrestling in nineteen ninety five, and trained wrestlers
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  Speaker 1: at the Wild Samoan Training Center in Mineola, Florida. Onoe
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  Speaker 1: was born on an island in the Western Samoa Trust Territory,
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  Speaker 1: then administered by the Dominion of New Zealand. His family
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  Speaker 1: relocated to San Francisco, California, in the United States when
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  Speaker 1: he was young. At the age of seventeen, AoE enlisted
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  Speaker 1: in the United States Marine Corps. Upon leaving the Marine Corps,
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  Speaker 1: Onoe began training as a wrestler under family relatives Rocky
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and Peter Mavia. He later received supplementary training from
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  Speaker 1: Kurt von Steiger. He wrestled his first match in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy one in Phoenix, Arizona. He then trained his brother Sicca,
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  Speaker 1: and the siblings formed a tag team known best as
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  Speaker 1: the Wild Samoans. Throughout the nineteen seventies, the Wild Samoans
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  Speaker 1: wrestled for the Canadian Stampede Wrestling Promotion, where they received
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  Speaker 1: further training from Stuhrt, and for numerous National Wrestling Alliance affiliates.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, the Wild Samoans traveled to Japan
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  Speaker 1: to wrestle for International Wrestling Enterprise, winning the IWA World
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  Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship. In nineteen seventy nine, the Wild Samoans
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  Speaker 1: joined the World Wrestling Federation, where they were managed by
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  Speaker 1: Lou Albano and referred to as Albano's Wildman. The wild
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  Speaker 1: nature of the brothers was conveyed through their unorthodox behavior,
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  Speaker 1: which included communicating only in unintelligible grunts and consuming unprepared
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  Speaker 1: raw fish during interviews and while approaching the ring. While
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  Speaker 1: in the w w F, the Wild Simoans won the
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  Speaker 1: w w F World Tag Team Championship. Both members also
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  Speaker 1: challenged Bob Backlan for the w w F Heavyweight Championship
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  Speaker 1: on several occasions. They left the promotion in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: The Wild Samoans then wrestled in Mid South Wrestling and
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  Speaker 1: Jim Crockett promotions before returning to the w w F
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three and regaining the w w F
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  Speaker 1: World Tag Team Championship. After Sikh suffered an injury, the
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  Speaker 1: tag team was supplemented by AFA's son Samu. The trio
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  Speaker 1: remained in the w w F until nineteen eighty four.
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  Speaker 1: According to Afa, he lost his job because he missed
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  Speaker 1: work to attend the birth of his son. On Oe
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  Speaker 1: returned to the w w F for a third time
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety two as the manager and occasional tag
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  Speaker 1: partner of the Headshrinkers, Samuein and Noa's nephew Fadu. He
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  Speaker 1: wrestled his final match on May twenty second, nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: teaming with the Head Shrinkers to defeat the Quebecers and
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Pullo at the Rosemont Horizon. When Samu left w
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  Speaker 1: w F in nineteen ninety four, he also managed Sione.
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  Speaker 1: On Oe left the w w F in mid nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety five. After leaving the w w F, he began
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  Speaker 1: training wrestlers at his Wild Samoan training facility along with Sicca.
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  Speaker 1: On August fifteenth, nineteen ninety seven, both men reunited for
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  Speaker 1: one night teaming with Disco Inferno, Jane Laigon and the
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  Speaker 1: Big Cheese as they defeated Can Tames, George Love, j Love,
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  Speaker 1: Gary Royal, and Cain Adams at i W A Knight
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  Speaker 1: of the Legends in Connapolis, North Carolina. On March thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seven, The Wild Samoans were inducted into the
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  Speaker 1: w w E Hall of Fame by Samu and Sika's
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  Speaker 1: son Matt. He was the wrestling trainer for Darren Aronofsky's
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  Speaker 1: two thousand eight film The Wrestler. In twenty thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Afa came out of retirement to wrestle for
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  Speaker 1: his promotion World Extreme Wrestling. At age seventy one. The
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  Speaker 1: Wild Samoans appeared at Hell in a Cell in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty to celebrate Roman Reigns victory. In nineteen ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: Afa and Lynn Onoi started the Usso's Foundation, a nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: organization aiming to turn youth away from drugs, gangs, and
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  Speaker 1: poverty by providing scholarships to the Wild Samoans Training Center.
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  Speaker 1: On August fifteenth, twenty twenty four, a statement was posted
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  Speaker 1: by Big Samonoa regarding the health of Afa with Dave
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  Speaker 1: Meltzer posting via x that he died. However, AFA's daughter
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  Speaker 1: Vail confirmed shortly after that he was still alive and
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  Speaker 1: that any updates regarding his health would come directly from
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  Speaker 1: his family. The following day, Samunoa officially confirmed that he
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  Speaker 1: had died at age eighty one, almost two months after
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  Speaker 1: the death of SIKA Championships and accomplishments Big Time Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: NWA World Tag Team Championship, Detroit, Vergeon, two times with
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  Speaker 1: SIKA World Wrestling Council w w c S North American
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  Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship, one time with CICCA Continental Wrestling Association ALWA,
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  Speaker 1: Southern Tag Team Championship, one time with CICCA Georgia Championship
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  Speaker 1: Wrestling NWA National Tag Team Championship, one time with CICCA,
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship
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  Speaker 1: two times with CICCA International Wrestling Enterprise IWA World Tag
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  Speaker 1: Team Championship, one time with CICCA, Mid South Wrestling Association
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  Speaker 1: Mid South Tag Team Championship three times with CICCA. NWA
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  Speaker 1: All Star Wrestling NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship Vancouver Version,
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  Speaker 1: one time with CICCA NWA Mid America NWA United States
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  Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship Mid America Version one time with CICCA
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  Speaker 1: Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of twenty twelve. Inducted
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  Speaker 1: as a member of the Wild Samoans Southeastern Championship Wrestling
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  Speaker 1: NWA Southern Tag Team Championship Southern Division two times with
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  Speaker 1: CICCA Stampede Wrestling intern National Tag Team Championship two times
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  Speaker 1: with CICCA w w F Tag Team Championship three times
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  Speaker 1: with CICCA w w E Hall of Fame Class of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand seven. Atha will be remembered forever as a
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  Speaker 1: trailblazer of the Samoan dynasty and one of the fiercest
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  Speaker 1: competitors ever