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You probably don't need to be told this (what with all the [[Evil Foreigner
Fortunately, this is on its way to becoming a [[Discredited Trope]], with the broadening characters for islander wrestlers (such as [[Samoa Joe]], the [[Badass]] submission expert, Rosey, the erstwhile sidekick to wrestling [[Superhero]] The Hurricane, and for that matter, [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] would count as well (his mother was Samoan, but his father was black) - not to mention Rikishi, the hip-hop dancing sumo wrestler who rubs his gargantuan, thong-covered ass into his opponents' faces... yes, you read that right). However, it does have a way of cropping back up from time to time.
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**** [[Retcon|Well, actually...]]
***** [[Killed Off for Real|Yeah]]...
* Haku([[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]])/Meng(WCW), a Wild Tongan
** In real life this was half true. Outside of the ring he was very quiet, respectful, and well spoken........until you pissed him off and lord help you at that point. Right, Jimmy Jack Funk?
*** [[Jake Roberts|Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] once joked that, if he ever had to fight Meng in real life, he'd need a tank and a gun with one bullet. The gun was for himself if the tank failed to stop Meng.
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* Haku had a tag team partner named Tama, who became known as the "Wild Samoan Savage" while wrestling in the NWA.
* Sabu The Wildman, came long before and no relation the non Samoan ECW wrestler of the same name
* While "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, a Fijian, wasn't the typical
** According to [[Urban Legend]], [[Vince McMahon]] once got Snuka off of a murder charge, by claiming to the police that he was an illiterate simpleton who spoke no English.
*** It wasn't Vince doing it, it was Snuka himself. Short version is that Snuka's girlfriend died in very questionable circumstances and, while no charges were ever brought, Snuka used his illiterate savage routine in his taped interviews with the cops to avoid saying too much. [[wikipedia:Jimmy Snuka#Homicide Suspect in Girlfriend.27s Death|The Other Wiki]] has the details.
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* This trope is ''subverted'', if you can believe it, by [[TNA]]'s [[Samoa Joe]]. Not only does he speak fluent English in the ring and out of it, but he wears shoes as well! Unfortunately, he has suffered not from this trope, but from [[Badass Decay]]. It's made more sad when he was [[ROH]] World Champion, [[The Ace|he reigned for twenty-one months]].
** To give you an idea of how impressive that was, [[John Cena]]'s longest title reign with the WWE championship [[Beyond the Impossible|was thirteen months.]]
** Worse still, in attempting to get rid of the [[Badass Decay]], he headed into
*** Not that it mattered anyway, as the next year, Samoa Freaking Joe was kidnaped by ninjas. [[Bad Dudes|And nobody was a bad enough dude to rescue him.]]
* WWE then debuted their own completely normal Samoan, Manu, but what made it genuinely surprising is that it's ''Afa's son''. He didn't last long, though.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Non-wrestling example (though it's not ''too'' far off): the recent revival of ''[[American Gladiators]]'' included a
** And who coincidentally is a cousin of [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]], a decidedly non-Wild Samoan.
* ''[[The Price Is Right]]'''s Bob Barker was infamously wary of any Samoans (or anyone who looked like one) who got to Contestants Row, given their alleged tendency to pick him up in bear hugs out of jubilation.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Fat Bastard|King Hippo]] from the [[Punch
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Heavyweight boxer David Tua certainly qualifies, at least early in his career. And yes, he is Samoan.
** A few kickboxers fit this trope as well: Mark Hunt, Ray Sefo and Mighty Mo (although, considering his [[Glass Cannon|susceptibility to knockouts]] he may count as a subversion).
* A disproportionate number of [[American Football]] players come from American Samoa. According to a ''[[
** Averted by Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is of Samoan descent (albeit born and raised in the US) and is every bit the warrior during the game. However, off the field, he is very soft-spoken, laid back and sweet-natured.
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