History Wrestling / Rikishi

* TheDreaded: Rikishi's [[AssKicksYou "Stink Face"]] move makes him a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and [[PlayedForLaughs lighthearted]] example of this. A face full of Rikishi's rear end was (obviously) [[AnythingButThat a source of intense fear]] for his opponents and they would [[OhCrap understandably panic]] when they saw it approaching them.

* TheDreaded: Rikishi's [[AssKicksYou "Stink Face"]] move makes him a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and [[PlayedForLaughs lighthearted]] example of this. A face full of Rikishi's rear end was (obviously) [[AnythingButThat a source of intense fear]] for his opponents and they would [[OhCrap understandably panic]] when this saw it approaching them.

* IHaveManyNames: Fatu, The Sultan, Rikishi Fatu, Alofa the Polynesian Prince, Junior Fatu, JR Smooth, [[Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE HUSTLE]] Rikishi...

* RingOldies: Still toured around the world at 49

* DoesNotLikeShoes: As a Headshrinker. This became a plot point in his "Makin' a difference" Fatu gimmick, where he had difficulty climbing the ropes because he wasn't used to wearing boots.

* WrestlingFamily: Part of the Anoa'i family led by [[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans Afa and Sika]] through his mother's side. Nearly every Anoa'i and their father (quite literally) has been part of WWE at some point in the last 20 years. More directly, though, his twin sons wrestle for WWE as the Usos, his another son Sefa Fatu known as Solo Sikoa and his daughter-in-law Naomi, formerly of the Funkadactyls.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Rikishi had become so used to opponents fearing [[AssKicksYou the offense of his tremendous backside]] that when Wrestling/RicoConstantino would actually ''spank'' him or ''beg'' for the Stinkface, it ''completely'' threw Rikishi off his game, forcing him to tag Scotty in and eventually lose their tag titles to Rico and Charlie Haas.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: After the Sultan gimmick.

* [[AngryBlackMan Angry Samoan Man]]: He claimed that he ran over Austin because of how Samoan wrestlers had been mistreated by WWE. This flopped because he had never shown any signs of this in the whole time he had been doing the Rikishi gimmick...though, it was later revealed (or retconned) that he had [[HijackedByGanon been working for Triple H the whole time]], so this may have been a lie, or at best an excuse.

* ActionDad: He has five children including Wrestling/TheUsos and Solo Sikoa.

* TakeThat: Not to anyone specific, but, on the September 5, 2002 ''[=SmackDown!=]'', he explained to Wrestling/{{Edge}} that he had experienced "the ass of life," and that the Stinkface was his way of throwing everything bad he had experienced in his life back at people.

* WrestlingFamily: Part of the Anoa'i family led by [[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans Afa and Sika]] through his mother's side. Nearly every Anoa'i and their father (quite literally) has been part of WWE at some point in the last 20 years. More directly, though, his twin sons wrestle for WWE as the Usos, his another son Sefa Fatu known as Solo Sikoa in NXT and his daughter-in-law Naomi, formerly of the Funkadactyls.

* WildSamoan: As a member of the Headshrinkers.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: With Scotty 2 Hotty

* DanceBattler: As Rikishi.

* ActionDad: He has five children including Wrestling/TheUsos.

* {{Expy}}: After his massive weight gain, of his cousin Rodney "Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}}" Anoa'i. ''Rikishi'' means "sumo wrestler" in Japanese. See ItIsPronouncedTroPAY below..

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sumo]]: In kayfabe.
* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: The word ''Rikishi'' is actually pronounced ''Rik-Shi'', with the second ''i'' being silent. For simplicity's sake, WWE pronounced it "Ri-Kee-Shee."

* WrestlingFamily: Part of the Anoa'i family led by [[Wrestling/TheWildSamoans Afa and Sika]] through his mother's side. Nearly every Anoa'i and their father (quite literally) has been part of WWE at some point in the last 20 years. More directly, though, his twin sons wrestle for WWE as the Usos and his daughter-in-law Naomi, formerly of the Funkadactyls.

* ActionDad: He has four children including Wrestling/TheUsos.

* AssKicksYou: Has several moves for this purpose, the [[{{Squick}} Stink Face]] being his best known.

* BadassGrandpa: [[Wrestling/TheUsos Two of his sons]] have children.

* BigGuyLittleGuy[=/=]FatAndSkinny: With Scotty 2 Hotty

* LaughablyEvil: [[TropesAreNotGood And not in a good way either.]] Turns out trying to make the guy most known for wearing a thong and sitting on people into a {{heel}} without radically altering his persona was not going to get him over.

* IHaveManyNames: Fatu, The Sultan, Rikishi Fatu, Alofa the Polynesian Prince, Junior Fatu, JR Smooth, Wrestling/{{HUSTLE}} Rikishi...

** (in the UWA in Mexico): The Hawaiian Beasts, with Kokina (Yokozuna) and the Samoan Savage (The Tonga Kid/Islander Tama)

Solofa F. Fatu Jr. (born October 11, 1965) is a UsefulNotes/{{Samoa}}n-[[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er best known for his work in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in the 1990s and early 2000s as Fatu, The Sultan and, especially, as Rikishi. He debuted in 1985 in the International Wrestling territory in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} as Alofa the Polynesian Prince. He switched to the Fatu name when he and his cousin Samu started teaming in the World Wrestling Council promotion in Puerto Rico as the Samoan Swat Team. They would go on to compete in World Class, [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation the AWA]], Wrestling/{{WCW}} and many other promotions. In 1992, they arrived in WWE and were renamed the Headshrinkers. This lasted until Samu left in 1994 and was replaced by [[Wrestling/TheBarbarian Sionne (The Barbarian)]], who left in 1995. Fatu was repackaged with a gimmick based on his own life, as a street-smart, tough Samoan who had survived getting shot and wanted to use that to send an anti-drugs/anti-violence message. He was billed as "Make a Difference" Fatu. In late 1996, [[Wrestling/BobBacklund Mr. Bob Backlund]] brought back Wrestling/TheIronSheik as the co-manager for Sheiky's new discovery, the Sultan. This gimmick had Fatu wearing a mask and not speaking. He jobbed a lot in this gimmick and he disappeared in early 1998. He returned in late 1999 as Rikishi Phatu (shortened to just Rikishi after a couple months), doing a dancing sumo gimmick, which got over far more than anything he had done before. He had a brief heel run from late 2000-mid 2001 after he claimed to have been the one who had run over Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1999''. He suffered an injury that put him on the shelf for a while and when he came back he was a {{face}} and his previous heel run was never acknowledged. He left WWE in 2004 and would go on to compete in Wrestling/{{TNA}} as Junior Fatu and for numerous independent promotions. Among his in-ring achievements, he is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion]], a former 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] (1x w[=/=]Samu and 1x w[=/=]Wrestling/{{Rico|Constantino}}), a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE [=SmackDown!=] Tag Team Champion]] w[=/=]Scotty 2 Hotty, and in 2000 ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' gave him their "Comeback of the Year" Award.