12/26/2024
🇹🇴 'Oku 'Omi 'E He Barbarian 'A E Mafai & Mamahi!! 🇹🇴
🦴 The Barbarian Will Bring The Power And The Pain! 🦴
Ladies & Gentlemen Our Next Featured Guest At This Time Is Best Remembered For His Various Stints With Crockett Promotions, (WCW) World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation (WWF) And For Being One Half Of The “Powers Of Pain” With Warlord And The “Faces Of Fear” With Meng! A Super Human, With Super Human Strength. Please Welcome The FOREVER Legendary - BARBARIAN!!!
On Saturday January 18th, 2025 The Barbarian Will Sit Down To Share His Incredibly Action Packed Life Story. Our Shows Are 100% FREE To Enjoy & Always AD-FREE! Support Our Show By Purchasing Autographed Photos Here OR On Our Site: https://www.thinksignatures.com
All Orders Placed For This Event Will Be Signed On-Air. Please Contact The THINK SIGNATURES Team Via PM With Any Questions / Special Requests. Simple! Tune In And Spend An Evening With A Professional Wrestling Legend. Submit Your Questions During The Show, And Hear The Answers In Real Time! We Are Really Looking Forward To Having Barbarian Back In-Studio For What Will Be His Third Appearance On Our Signing Platform!
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After Migrating To The United States, He Trained In Professional Wrestling Under The Tutelage Of Rolland 'Red' Bastien. In 1980, He Made His Debut, Wrestling Killer Karl Krupp In Modesto, California. He Wrestled As King Konga In Several NWA, National Wrestling Alliance Regional Territories In 1981. The Barbarian Soon Went To The NWA's Crockett Promotions, Where He Teamed Up With Ron Garvin. Having A Short Run In World Class As A Heel Named Tonga John. Later On, The Barbarian Would Also Wrestle In The CWA Memphis Territory In 1984 Feuding Against Jerry Lawler.
Seeing The Monster Villain Potential In A Tremendous, Intimidating Man With Surprising Agility, Now Back In Crockett's Territory. He Made His Debut For Crockett Promotions On The December 29th, 1984 Episode Of WorldWide After A Match Between Assassin #1 And Kareem Mohammad As A Member Of Paul Jones Army.
The Barbarian Was Brought Into The Company To Aid Jones In His Rivalry With Jimmy Valiant. He Was Paired With Superstar Billy Graham Under The Management Of Jones. At The Inaugural Great American Bash, Barb Teamed With Graham And Abdullah The Butcher In A 6-Man Tag Team Match Against Sam Houston, Manny Fernandez And Buzz Tyler. Following The Event, Barb Occasionally Teamed With Abdullah The Butcher And Turned On Graham By The End Of The Year. Barbarian Lost To Graham In An Arm Wrestling Contest And Then In A Singles Match At Starrcade. It Was This Time That "Konga" Was Dropped From His Name And He Became Known For The First Time As The Barbarian.
The Barbarian Entered The 1987 Crockett Cup With
Bill Dundee, Beating Tim Horner And Mike Rotunda In The Opening Round. Barb Would Team With The Likes Of Manny Fernandez And Vladimir Petrov Throughout 1987. In 1987, He Appeared In The Movie: “Body Slam”, As Axe, Of The Tag Team Called The Cannibals. In Late 1987, He Formed A Team With Ivan Koloff, Who Was Also His Coach. During This Time, Barb Formed: “The Powers Of Pain” With The Warlord And The Duo Began Feuding Heavily With: “The Road Warriors” Animal And Hawk. The Barbarian Made His Pay-Per-View Debut At The Bunkhouse Stampede On January 24th, 1988.
In April 1988, Crockett Decided He Wanted The Teams To Have A Series Of Scaffold Matches, Which Neither Team Wanted Because They Felt That They Were Too Large To Safely Participate. This Was Especially So For The Powers of Pain, Who Were Scheduled To Lose The Matches By Falling Off The Scaffolding. Barbarian And Warlord Would Decide To Leave The Company.
Upon Their Arrival In WWF, The Powers Of Pain Were Fan Favorites, Initially Managed By Tito Santana. They Feuded With The World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Champions Demolition Who Had Defeated Strike Force For The Titles. The Powers Of Pain Were Introduced As Mercenaries To Help Martel And Santana Gain Revenge On Demolition For Both The Title Loss. The Powers Of Pain Made Their Debut In A Dark Match At A TV Taping On June 18th, 1988 As A Replacement For Strike Force In A WWF Tag Team Championship Match Where They Defeated Demolition By Count-Out.
The Powers Of Pain Had Their First Televised Rivalry Against The Bolsheviks. They Defeated The Bolsheviks In Their PPV Debut At The Inaugural 88’ SummerSlam. The Team Introduced Their New Manager “The Baron”. At The Survivor Series, The Powers Led A Team Of Fan Favorite Tag Teams Against Demolition's Villainous Tag Teams In A Survivor Series Match, During Which A Double Turn Took Place When Demolition's Manager Mr. Fuji Turned On Demolition By Causing Them To Get Eliminated By Count-Out. The Team Afterwards Came To Fuji's Aid And Thus Became Villains And Demolition Became Fan Favorites.
The Powers Then Eliminated Los Conquistadores To Win The Match Before Demolition Returned To The Ring To Confront The Powers And Fuji. Following This, Demolition And The Powers (With Fuji In Their Corner) Engaged In A Series Of Championship Title Matches At House Shows, Typically Ending In Disqualification Or A Narrow Countout Victory For The Powers Of Pain. On The December 12th Episode Of Prime Time Wrestling, Mr. Fuji Was Confirmed As The Team’s New Manager.
Barbarian Entered The Royal Rumble Match At The 1989 Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View As The Number 26 Entrant. Barbarian And Ted DiBiase Eliminated Brutus Beefcake And Hercules, Before He Was Eliminated By Rick Martel. On The February 20th Episode Of Prime Time Wrestling, The Powers Received An Opportunity For The Tag Team Championship Against Demolition, Which They Lost Via Disqualification At WrestleMania V.
At Survivor Series, The Powers of Pain And Demolition Were On Opposing Teams As The Powers Of Pain Were Paired With Ted DiBiase And Zeus In “The Million Dollar Team” Against Hulk Hogan's “Hulkamaniacs” Jake The Snake Robert’s And Demolition. After Coming Up Short in their title hunt, Powers of Pain feuded with tag teams Such As The Hart Foundation, The Bushwhackers And The Rockers. Barbarian Participated In The 1990 Royal Rumble Natch As The Number 28 Entrant. Eliminated By Hercules. The Powers Of Pain Faced Demolition For The Last Time In A Tag Match On February 10th, 1990.
On The March 3rd Episode Of WWF Superstars, It Was Announced That Barbarian Would Face Tito Santana At WrestleMania VI. The Following Week On Superstars, It Was Announced That Mr. Fuji Had Sold The Contracts Of The Powers Of Pain, Thus Splitting Up The Team. It Was On March 25th That The Powers Had Their Final Match As A Team Where They Lost To Hulk Hogan And The Big Boss Man.
On The March 24th Episode Of WWF Superstars, Bobby Heenan Became The Manager Of Barbarian.
As A Member Of Heenan's Faction, Barbarian's Image Was Tweaked. From Growing His Road Warrior-Like Mohawk And Face Paint, Instead Wearing A Fur Cloak, A Helmet With Reindeer-Like Antlers, And A Skull To The Ring. He Briefly Wrestled In Singles Competition, Defeating Tito Santana At WrestleMania VI. He Was A Member Of Natural Disasters (Earthquake, Dino Bravo And Haku) Against “The Hulkamaniacs” (Hulk Hogan, Boss Man, Tugboat & Jim Duggan) At Survivor Series.
Barbarian Would Soon Be Paired With Heenan Family Member Haku In A Tag Team On The February 23rd Episode Of Superstars, Where It Was Announced That The Duo Would Face The Rockers At WrestleMania VII.
The Barbarian Participated In The 1992 Royal Rumble Match For The Vacant WWF Championship As The #8 Entrant. He Would Be Eliminated By Hercules. He Left The WWF In February 1992 And Returned To Crockett Promotions Which Had Become World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Barbarian Made His Televised Debut In WCW As A Villain On An Episode Of Saturday Night. The Barbarian And Dick Slater Were Booked To Defeat The Fabulous Freebirds, For The WCW United States Tag Team Championship. However, This Was The Last Match For This Title As It Was Retired A Month Later.
The Barbarian Was Heavily Pushed Throughout The Summer With A Winning Streak Against The Likes Of Brian Pillman, Tom Zenk, Marcus Alexander Bagwell & Barry Windham. Placed In An Alliance With Tony Atlas, Cactus Jack, Jake Roberts And Butch Reed. Their Main Rival Was Ron Simmons, Where Barbarian Challenged Ron For The World Heavyweight Championship At The Halloween Havoc Pay-Per-View. Barbarian Entered The King Of Cable Tournament, Losing To Dustin Rhodes In The Quarter-Finals On An Episode Of Saturday Night.
The Barbarian Received A Title Match Against Vader For The World Heavyweight Championship. Barbarian Made His Last Television Appearance On The March 7th Episode Of Main Event, Where He Lost To Steven Regal In The First Round Match Of A Tournament For The Vacant World Television Championship. He Went On To Compete At House Show Circuit For The Next Few Months Before Deciding To Depart The Company In June.
On June 6th, 1994 The Barbarian Returned Home To The WWF At A House Show To Face Razor Ramon As A Substitute For Diesel. On September 1st, The Barbarian Replaced An Injured Samu And Teamed With Fatu Against “Two Dudes with Attitudes” (Shawn Michaels And Diesel) For The Tag Team Championship, Just A Few Days After Michaels And Diesel Had Beaten The Headshrinkers (Fatu and Samu) For The Titles. Later That Month, He Permanently Replaced Samu And Was Renamed Seone, One Half Of The New Version Of The Headshrinkers With Fatu After Samu Left The WWF.
On The October 10th, 1994 Episode Of Monday Night RAW, Seone Made His Televised Return To WWF. The New Combination Made Only One PPV Appearance As A Team Which Was At The Survivor Series Event As A Part Of “The Bad Guys” Team (Razor Ramon, 1-2-3 Kid And The British Bulldog).
Seone Participated In The 1995 Royal Rumble Match As The Sixth Entrant. By July The Headshrinkers Team Dissolved, As Seone Left The WWF For WCW. By late 1995, The Barbarian Is Placed Under A Mask And Is Back Teaming With His Former Partner, The Warlord.
Known As “The Super Assassins", Managed By Col. Robert Parker. The Assassins Made Their Televised Debut On The November 27th Episode Of Prime, With A Win Over The American Males. No Mention Was Ever Made On Television Of Their Former Identities, And The Team Did Not Last Long As Warlord Left WCW In Early 1996.
Later On, The Barbarian Was Added Into Kevin Sullivan's “Dungeon Of Doom” And Was Paired With Dungeon Teammate Haku (Now Known As Meng) In
A Tag Team Called “The Faces of Fear”. Barbarian Was Randomly Paired With Diamond Dallas Page In A Lethal Lottery Match, Where They Defeated Meng And Hugh Morrus In The First Match And Then Rick Steiner And The B***y Man To Qualify For The LOTR Battle Royal.
The Dungeon Would Later Enter Into A Rivalry With The Four Horsemen, Stemming From The Taskmaster's Rivalry With Horsemen Member Chris Benoit Over Woman. At The “Halloween Havoc” Pay-Per-View The Faces of Fear Lost To Horsemen Members Benoit And Steve McMichael In A Tag Team Match. The Barbarian And Meng Began Pursuing The World Tag Team Titles As They Faced “The Outsiders” (Scott Hall And Kevin Nash) And Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs And Jerry Saggs) In A Triangle Match For The Title At World War 3 Where The Outsiders Retained The Titles. The Faces Received Another Title Match Against The Outsiders At Starrcade.
The Dungeon of Doom Disbanded After Taskmaster's Retirement. The Faces Of Fear Would Then Feud With Wrath And Mortis, Whom They Faced At Fall Brawl. On The September 29th Episode Of Nitro Barbarian Lost To Newcomer Goldberg, Becoming One Of The Earliest Victims Of His Undefeated Streak. The Faces Of Fear Would Later Rival Ernest Miller And Glacier Whom They Defeated At The World War 3 PPV. On The February 12th, 1998 Episode Of Thunder, The Barbarian Tried To Separate Meng From Hugh Morrus After Meng Already Defeated Morrus He Refused To Release “The Tongan Death Grip” Meng Then Applied The Hold On Barbarian As Well, Thus Breaking Up The Faces of Fear Team.
The Barbarian Formed A Tag Team With Hugh Morrus Under The Management Of Jimmy Hart And Feuded With Meng Throughout The Year. The Former Partners Competed In The Opening Match Of The “Road Wild” Pay-Per-View. Jimmy Hart Reunited The Faces Of Fear In Early 1999 And Put Them In A Tournament For The Vacated World Tag Team Titles. The Barbarian Turned On Meng During A Tournament Match Against Bobby Duncum, Jr. And Mike Enos On An Episode Of Thunder By Striking Meng With The Kick Of Fear. The Barbarian Continued His Rivalry With Meng Throughout The Year.
This Would Later Lead To Barbarian Being Placed In Jimmy Hart's First Family Faction With, Hugh Morrus, Brian Knobbs And Jerry Flynn In The Summer Of 1999. Barbarian's Last Televised Match In WCW Was On The March 29th, 2000 Episode Of Thunder, A Loss To The WCW World Television Champion Jim Duggan. WCW Terminated Barbarian's Contract In April 2000 In An Effort Of Lowering Budget Costs.
In March 2004, The Barbarian Won The NWA Virginia Heavyweight Championship, And Feuded With David Flair For The Title, Until He Was Ruled Ineligible To Compete Due To A Lack Of A Valid Virginia Wrestling License. In 2005, The Barbarian Again Teamed With The Warlord In Gladiator Championship Wrestling, And Renewed His Feud With Road Warrior Animal. Chikara Announced In August, 2012 That The Barbarian Would Be Making His Debut For The Promotiona King Of Trios Tournament, Where He Will Reunite With The Warlord And Meng As The Faces Of Pain In Reference To Their Previous Team Names Faces Of Fear & Powers Of Pain.
On 14 September, The Team Was Eliminated From The Tournament In The First Round By Team ROH (Mike Bennett, Matt Jackson And Nick Jackson). Two Days Later, On The Final Day Of The Tournament, Barbarian And Warlord Took Part In A Tag Team Gauntlet Match, Eliminatating Their WWF Tag Team Rivals - Demolition!
Barbarian Has Seven Children With His Wife. His Youngest Son, Peter, Was A College Football Player, Who Signed To Attend Wingate University In Wingate, North Carolina. His Son Joey Competes In Powerlifting And Strongman Events. Barbs Nephew Samu Manoa Is An American Rugby Union Player Who Currently Plays Second Row Or Back Row For Toulon In France. Samu Manoa Also Plays For The US National Team. Barbs Nephew Luke Kaumatule Played TE/DE For Stanford University And Nephew Canton Kaumatule Played DE For Oregon University But Transferred To Central, FL To Begin Playing In The 2018 Season. Both Luke And Canton Are The Younger Brothers To Samu Monoa.
He Is The Uncle And Trainer Of Lei'D Tapa, Who Is A German Professional Women's Wrestler, MMA Fighter, And Professional Boxer.
As of 2024, The Barbarian Is Still Performing In The Ring At 66 Years Old - With No Signs Of Stopping! He Is A True Superstar And An Excellent Representation Of The Incredible Industry We All Know And Love. On Saturday January 18th (Only 23 Days Away!) The Fans Get To Not Only Have Their Merchandise Signed, But Their Questions Answered As Well. We Are The ONLY Company Hosting 4 Hour LIVE Signing Sessions! Make This Virtual Signing Your Priority! We Hit The Air Waves At 6:00PM SHARP! Stick Around For Our 🌍 Famous Trivia Segment And Maybe You Will Be Our Next Lucky Winner!! We’ll See You Saturday January 18th, 2025!!!
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