Roman Reigns Bio

Roman Reigns Bio

Name                      :                  Leati Joseph

Ring Name             :                  Roman Reigns

Birth Date              :                   25 May 1985

Birth Place             :                    Florida, USA 

 Mini Bio

Leati Joseph "Joe" Anoaʻi (conceived May 25, 1985) is an American expert wrestler, previous expert Canadian football player, and an individual from the Anoaʻi family. He is marked to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Roman Reigns on the Raw brand.

Subsequent to playing university football for Georgia Tech, Anoaʻi began his expert football vocation with brief off-season stretches with the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) in 2007. He then played a full season for the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Edmonton Eskimos in 2008 preceding his discharge and retirement from football.

Anoaʻi then sought after a vocation in expert wrestling and was marked by WWE in 2010, answering to their formative domain Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). As Roman Reigns, he made his principle program debut in November 2012 close by Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose as The Shield. The trio joined together until June 2014, after which Reigns entered singles rivalry. Rules is a three-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion (with Rollins), the 2015 Royal Rumble victor and the 2014 Superstar of the Year. He additionally tied the WWE record for most ends in a Survivor Series end match with four in the 2013 occasion, and set the record for most disposals in a Royal Rumble match with 12 in the 2014 occasion.

Rules has featured various WWE pay-per-sees including WrestleManias 31 and 32, with WWE planning him to be their next "face of the company". However, Reigns' command as a world title-pursuing courageous character has been set apart by faultfinders' objection and antagonistic group responses.

Full Bio

Football vocation

Anoaʻi played football for a long time at Pensacola Catholic High School and one year at Escambia High School. In his senior year, he was named Defensive Player of the Year by the Pensacola News Journal. He then went to Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was an individual from the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football group alongside Calvin Johnson, who later turned into a wide recipient in the National Football League (NFL). Anoa'i was a three-year starter starting in his sophomore year and was additionally one of the group skippers as a senior. Anoa'i was named to the principal group All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the wake of recording twenty-nine handles for misfortune and twelve sacks in 2006.

In the wake of going undrafted in the 2007 NFL Draft, Anoa'i was marked by the Minnesota Vikings in May 2007, yet was discharged later that month. The Jacksonville Jaguars marked him in August 2007, just to discharge Anoa'i not exactly a week later before the begin of the 2007 NFL season.

In 2008, Anoaʻi was marked by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Wearing the number 99, Anoaʻi played for one season with the Eskimos, including in five recreations, of which he began three. Anoaʻi's most eminent diversion came against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in September, where he tied for the group captain with five handles and had a constrained fumble. Anoa'i was discharged by the Eskimos on November 10, 2008, and continued to resign from football.

World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE

Formative regions

Anoa'i made his first wander into wrestling in July 2010, when he marked a formative contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was later allocated to their formative domain Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). He appeared on September 9, 2010, utilizing the ring name Roman Leakee (regularly abbreviated to Leakee), in a misfortune to Richie Steamboat in a singles match. Further misfortunes to Idol Stevens and Wes Brisco ensued, before he picked up his first win on September 21 over Fahd Rakman. He kept contending in FCW all through the rest of the year, wrestling principally in label group matches. On the January 16, 2011, scene of FCW TV, Leakee was a rival in a 30-man Grand Royal, yet was eliminated. Later in 2011, Leakee framed a label group with Donny Marlow and the pair unsuccessfully tested Calvin Raines and Big E Langston for the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship on July 8.

In 2012, Leakee stuck FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion Leo Kruger amid a label group match on the January 8 scene of FCW television. On the February 5 scene of FCW TV, he vanquished Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins in a triple risk match to end up the main contender to the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship. He neglected to win the title when he lost to then champion Kruger the accompanying week. Leakee later won the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship with Mike Dalton and would drop the titles to CJ Parker and Jason Jordan right away after.

After WWE rebranded FCW to NXT, Anoaʻi, with the new ring name of Roman Reigns, made his introduction on the October 31, 2012 scene of NXT by vanquishing CJ Parker. After crushing Chase Donovan two weeks later, Reigns wrestled his keep going match on the December 5 scene of NXT by overcoming Gavin Reids.

The Shield

Rules made his primary program TV debut on November 18, 2012, at the Survivor Series pay-per-view close by Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, attacking Ryback amid the triple risk headliner for the WWE Championship, permitting CM Punk to hold the title. The trio announced themselves "The Shield" and promised to rally against "foul play". They denied working for Punk, yet routinely rose up out of the group to assault Punk's enemies, including Ryback and WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan). This prompted a six-man label group Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at the TLC pay-per-view, in which Reigns, Ambrose, and Rollins crushed Team Hell No and Ryback in their presentation match. The Shield kept on supporting Punk in January 2013, assaulting both Ryback and The Rock. On the January 28 scene of Raw, it was uncovered that Punk and his director Paul Heyman had been paying The Shield and Brad Maddox to work for them.

The Shield then indistinguishably finished their relationship with Punk while starting a quarrel with John Cena, Ryback, and Sheamus that coordinated to a six-man label match on February 17 at Elimination Chamber, which The Shield won. The Shield had their first Raw match the next night, where they picked up accomplishment against Ryback, Sheamus, and Chris Jericho. Sheamus then shaped a partnership with Randy Orton and Big Show to confront the trio at WrestleMania 29, where The Shield developed triumphant in their first WrestleMania match. The next night on Raw, The Shield endeavored to assault The Undertaker, yet were ceased by Team Hell No. This set up a six-man label group match on the April 22 scene of Raw, which The Shield won. On the May 13 scene of Raw, The Shield's undefeated streak in broadcast six-man label group matches finished in a preclusion misfortune in a disposal label group match against Cena, Kane and Bryan.

On May 19 at Extreme Rules, Reigns and Rollins crushed Team Hell No in a tornado label group match to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. They made their initially broadcast title safeguard on the May 27 scene of Raw, overcoming Team Hell No in a rematch. On the June 14 scene of SmackDown, The Shield's unfastened/unsubmitted streak in broadcast six-man label group matches arrived at an end because of Team Hell No and Randy Orton, when Bryan submitted Rollins. Reigns and Rollins vanquished Bryan and Orton at Payback to hold the WWE Tag Team Championship. Further fruitful title protections took after against The Usos on July 14 amid the Money in the Bank pre-appear and The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil) at Night of Champions. On the September 23 scene of Raw, Reigns was stuck surprisingly while on the principle list politeness of The Usos when The Shield partook in and lost an eleven-on-three impediment disposal match.

In August, The Shield started working for head working officer Triple H and The Authority. On the October 14 scene of Raw, Reigns and Rollins lost the WWE Tag Team Championship to Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a no preclusion match, taking after impedance from Big Show. At Hell in a Cell, Reigns and Rollins neglected to recover the label group title in a triple danger label group match. The primary seeds of disagreement were sown in The Shield (particularly amongst Ambrose and Reigns) with Ambrose's bragging of being the main part left with a championship. At Survivor Series, Reigns was the sole survivor for his group in the customary five-on-five end label group match in the wake of killing four opponents.

 After losing to Punk in a debilitation match at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, Reigns crushed Punk in a singles match taking after a diversion from Ambrose on the January 6, 2014 extraordinary scene of Raw Old School, making him the main individual from The Shield to have beaten Punk. At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, Reigns entered the Royal Rumble match at number 15, and set the record for most ends in a solitary Royal Rumble with 12, as he wiped out both his Shield partners, and was the runner-up in the match subsequent to being wiped out by Batista. The following night on Raw, The Shield contended in a six-man label group match against Daniel Bryan, Sheamus, and John Cena, with each of the three individuals from the triumphant group fitting the bill for the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, which The Shield lost by means of exclusion after The Wyatt Family meddled and assaulted Cena, Bryan, and Sheamus. The Shield needed retribution and a six-man label group match for The Shield against The Wyatt Family at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-perspective was masterminded, in which The Shield lost. Despite more dispute, The Shield accommodated in March.

In March, The Shield started quarreling with Kane, which transformed all individuals from The Shield into fan top picks in the process. Over the following couple of weeks, The Shield kept trading attacks with Kane, who was joined by The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn), prompting a match between the two groups at WrestleMania XXX, which The Shield won. The fight with Kane additionally provoked The Shield to disjoin ties with Triple H, who changed Evolution to counter them. The Shield vanquished Evolution at both Extreme Rules and Payback. After Batista "quit" WWE the next night on Raw, Triple H started his "arrangement B" which included Rollins turning on The Shield and adjusting himself to Triple H and The Authority.

Disputable ascent to high-level status

After the disintegration of The Shield in June 2014, Reigns (now a singles wrestler) was immediately embedded into world title dispute that month, and he featured the following two pay-per-sees; the principal when, two weeks after Rollins' treachery, Reigns won a fight illustrious on the June 16, 2014, scene of Raw to pick up a spot in the empty WWE World Heavyweight Championship stepping stool match at Money in the Bank, however neglected to win the title amid the headliner match. The second pay-per-perspective was July 20's Battleground, where Reigns again unsuccessfully tested for the world title, this time in a deadly four-manner headliner match (additionally including Kane, Randy Orton and protecting champion John Cena). The next night on Raw, Reigns began a quarrel with Randy Orton, which prompted a match between the two, on August 17, at SummerSlam, where Reigns vanquished Orton. Meanwhile, Reigns' previous colleagues Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins had been quarreling over Rollins' selling out, with Rollins beating Ambrose in five matches and eventually harming Ambrose in the storyline. This prompted a fight amongst Rollins and Reigns, where a singles match was set up for Night of Champions. Be that as it may, six days before the compensation per-view, Reigns neatly vanquished Rollins in a singles match on Raw. Then, Reigns built up a true blue imprisoned hernia which required surgery a day or two preceding Night of Champions, and subsequently, Rollins was announced the victor by means of relinquish, while Reigns was precluded of activity uncertainly.

Rules came back to WWE TV on the December 8 scene of Raw, tolerating the 2014 "Whiz of the Year" Slammy Award. Six days after the fact at TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs, when Big Show meddled in John Cena's match against Seth Rollins, Reigns assaulted both Big Show and Rollins, helping Cena win. This began a fight amongst Reigns and Big Show, in which Reigns vanquished him various times by countout and disqualification. On January 25, 2015, Reigns, entering at number 19, won the 2015 Royal Rumble match by taking out alternate participants in the last four: Big Show, Kane and finally Rusev. The next night on Raw, Reigns recognized being a piece of the Anoaʻi family surprisingly on WWE television. Former WWE essayist Kevin Eck said that WWE administrators Vince McMahon and Triple H at first (when Reigns was still part of The Shield) declined to recognize Reigns' Samoan legacy as they thought it would harm Reigns' mystique. On the February 2 scene of Raw, Reigns endured his first pinfall misfortune in a singles match on the fundamental list when Big Show crushed him after obstruction from Rollins. Reigns was then compelled to guard his WrestleMania title shot against Daniel Bryan in the headliner of Fastlane, and succeeded in doing as such in the wake of beating Bryan through pinfall. Post-Fastlane, Bryan and Paul Heyman supported Reigns with "two shockingly straightforward promos... endeavoring to show Reigns' greatness". On March 29, at WrestleMania 31, Seth Rollins traded out his Money in the Bank contract while Reigns' headliner match with Brock Lesnar was in advancement, transforming it into a triple danger, which Reigns lost when he was stuck by Rollins.

In April, Reigns re-touched off his quarrel with Big Show, which finished in a Last Man Standing match at Extreme Rules, where Reigns crushed Show. In May, at Payback, Reigns at the end of the day neglected to win the world title from Rollins in a deadly four-manner headliner that likewise included Orton and Ambrose. On June 14, at Money in the Bank, Reigns contended in the Money in the Bank stepping stool match, which he neglected to win after Bray Wyatt meddled and assaulted him. Around a month later, Wyatt vanquished Reigns at Battleground, after previous Wyatt Family part Luke Harper assaulted Reigns. On the August 6 scene of SmackDown, Wyatt acknowledged Reigns' test to a label group match at SummerSlam, with Reigns and Ambrose confronting Wyatt and Harper. Reigns stuck Wyatt at the event, and the next night on Raw, in a rematch, Reigns and Ambrose was assaulted by Wyatt's new partner, the appearing Braun Strowman. In September, at Night of Champions, Reigns and Ambrose cooperated with Chris Jericho and were vanquished by Wyatt, Harper and Strowman. The fight amongst Reigns and Wyatt finished after their Hell in a Cell match at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view on October 25, in which Reigns was victorious.

WWE World Heavyweight Champion

On the October 26 scene of Raw, Reigns won a lethal four-way coordinate (likewise including Alberto Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler and Kevin Owens) to end up the main contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. However, on November 4, then champion Seth Rollins genuinely harmed his knee and cleared the title, which prompted a competition to crown another champion. Following this, Triple H endeavored to influence Reigns into joining The Authority by offering him a bye into the competition finals which Reigns declined. He then vanquished Big Show in the primary round, Cesaro in the quarterfinals, Alberto Del Rio in the semifinals and Dean Ambrose in the finals at Survivor Series, to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship for the principal time. Triple H endeavored to offer congrats, yet Reigns hit him with a lance and Sheamus then traded out his Money in the Bank contract and stuck Reigns, in this way closure Reigns' rule at just 5 minutes. Reigns then neglected to recover the title from Sheamus in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match at TLC, in the wake of being aided by his kindred League of Nations individuals Alberto Del Rio and Rusev; along these lines, Reigns would assault the trio furthermore Triple H, who turned out to stop him.

The following night on the December 14 scene of Raw, Mr. McMahon allowed Reigns a title rematch against Sheamus, with Reigns' vocation hanging in the balance, and in the wake of beating McMahon, Del Rio and Rusev's impedances, Reigns crushed Sheamus and recaptured the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. On the January 4, 2016 scene of Raw, Reigns effectively safeguarded his title against Sheamus, regardless of McMahon going about as the unique visitor referee. Reigns was then slated to guard his title in the Royal Rumble match at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, where Reigns scored a sum of five disposals subsequent to entering initially, setting out backstage toward a significant part of the match after an assault by the League of Nations, and was wiped out upon his arrival by inevitable victor Triple H, accordingly losing the world title. At Fastlane, Reigns stuck Dean Ambrose in a triple risk coordinate likewise including Brock Lesnar, to get a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against Triple H at WrestleMania 32, where he vanquished Triple H in the headliner to end up the WWE World Heavyweight Champion for a third time. Earlier in March 2016, Reigns changed his ring access to the on-ramp (a default like different wrestlers) rather than turning out through the crowd.

For this third world title rule, Reigns had two effective broadcast title protections in May against AJ Styles: at Payback and after that Extreme Rules. Directly after the Extreme Rules match against Styles, Reigns was assaulted by a returning Seth Rollins. Near the end of his rule, the 2.03 TV rating for the June 13 scene of Raw which he showed up in was the most minimal since March 3, 1997. At Money in the Bank on June 19, Reigns was crushed by Rollins, finishing his title rule at 77 days. On June 21, 2016, Anoaʻi was suspended for 30 days for his first infringement of WWE's Wellness Program and, accordingly, he apologized on Twitter. WWE's Wellness Program utilizes drug testing to identify substance abuse. Pro Wrestling Torch and TheWrap reported that WWE knew of Anoaʻi's infringement before Money in the Bank, prompting Reigns being scripted to lose his reality title at the event.

Title interests

On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft, Reigns was drafted to Raw. Despite Reigns' suspension, WWE kept on publicizing Reigns as a component of the Battleground principle event, and went ahead to recognize Reigns' suspension on television. On July 24 at the Battleground pay-per-view, Reigns made his broadcast return, confronting Rollins and Dean Ambrose (whom Rollins dropped the title to at Money in the Bank after Ambrose traded out his Money in the Bank contract) for the now-renamed WWE Championship, yet Ambrose effectively held the title when he stuck Reigns in a clean finish. The next night on the July 25 scene of Raw, Reigns likewise neglected to fight for the recently declared WWE Universal Championship against Rollins at SummerSlam, as he lost in the headliner against the appearing Finn Bálor after prior winning a deadly four-way coordinate that included Chris Jericho, Sami Zayn, and Sheamus that same night.

On the August 1 Raw, Reigns stood up to Rusev; on the August 8 Raw, in the wake of interfering with Rusev and Lana's wedding festivity, Reigns tested him for the United States Championship, at which Rusev at first declined, however Raw General Manager Mick Foley booked Rusev to shield the United States Championship against Reigns at Summerslam. On August 21 at SummerSlam, Reigns and Rusev fought before the match started, creating the match to be proclaimed a no challenge.

Persona and gathering

While in NXT in 2012, Roman Reigns' character was an "agent" who was "constantly dressed to awe" and saw himself as "the most profitable ware in WWE". After exchanging to WWE's fundamental list, his character was changed to the "powerhouse" and "substantial hitter" of The Shield, and in addition an "outstanding athlete". Noted as the minimum chatty of The Shield members, in mid-2013, Reigns' character was changed from "the calm muscle" to being a "ultra-certain" wellspring of administration with "calm strength". CM Punk uncovered that he was continually reminded to make Reigns look "ridiculously solid" in spite of the Shield being scripted to lose to Punk at the December 2013 TLC event. Reigns was voted the 2013 "Most Improved" by Wrestling Observer Newsletter. At the 2014 Royal Rumble coordinate, the live group cheered for Reigns over possible victor Batista, regardless of Reigns being a heel. Anoaʻi later recognized the response as "a cool situation". In mid-2014, Stone Cold Steve Austin said he saw awesome potential in Reigns, while David Shoemaker of Grantland composed that Reigns had "puzzle and force", and also "whiz thought of all over him".

After The Shield disbanded, Reigns (not at all like the other previous Shield individuals) held a great part of The Shield's stylish including ring clothing, signature music and ring entrance. From July to September 2014, Reigns' certain group responses were diminishing. Reigns' win of WWE's 2014 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award collected astonishment to the point of allegations of vote-apparatus, however both PWInsider and Dave Meltzer expressed that the fan vote was legitimate. Reigns then completed in second place for Wrestling Observer Newsletter's "Most Overrated" honor in 2014, a deed rehashed in 2015. Writers from the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter scrutinized Reigns in 2014 and 2015, for an "exceptionally constrained" in-ring moveset, "constrained promo delivery" and a "peevish and irritated" state of mind sick befitting of a top babyface. Fellow professional wrestler Mikey Whipwreck said Reigns was "attempting to resemble John Cena", who was "extremely polarizing".

At the 2015 Royal Rumble, Reigns was booed intensely after his triumph in spite of depicting a chivalrous character. By March, Anoaʻi wore blue contact focal points so the Reigns character had blue eyes. From late 2014 to mid 2015, different commentators raised worries that Reigns, regardless of being "not completely prepared", was "being pushed too hard, too early" while WWE attempted to make him their next "lead star", "regardless of how fans responded" negatively. Anoaʻi responded by saying that every one of his faultfinders "weren't wrestlers", communicating aversion when non-wrestlers who can't "bolt up" attempt to study wrestlers. Going into WrestleMania in 2015, Anoaʻi pronounced that WWE "is my boat now, I'm the skipper here", while Dave Meltzer said that Reigns was the slightest over WrestleMania fundamental eventer ever. At WrestleMania 31, Pro Wrestling Torch portrayed Reigns as requiring security for his passageway while getting "all inclusive boos" and center fingers. Despite the fan reaction in mid 2015, pundits lauded Reigns' exhibitions at Fastlane, WrestleMania and Extreme Rules as surpassing expectations, while the negative responses proceeded at Money in the Bank and SummerSlam.

In late 2015, pundits depicted WWE displaying Reigns' character as a "hard-fortunes underdog" pursuing the world title, with WWE having "invested a staggering measure of energy" in Reigns, "twisting around in reverse to make new impediments for him to overcome", "to the detriment of just about others on the roster". Reigns got a blended response after winning and losing his first WWE World Heavyweight Championship at the 2015 Survivor Series event, and a positive response on winning his second world title at the Raw after TLC, despite the fact that a Wrestleview author mirrored that "it's been downhill from that point onward" for Reigns from that point until March 2016.

In 2015 and 2016, WWE has purportedly taken a few measures to conceal fans' objection to Reigns, this included: appropriating against Reigns fan signs, altering out against Reigns fan signs for photographs on their website, quieting threatening group (counting at WrestleMania 32), and channeling in canned cheers amid Reigns' appearances.

In 2016, Reigns fundamental evented the initial seven WWE pay-per-sees (before the brand split started) and was booed in every one of them: Royal Rumble, Fastlane, WrestleMania 32 (which finished with a chorale of boos when Reigns won his third world title), Payback, Extreme Rules, Money in the Bank and Battleground. CNET portrayed a "fan resistance" against WWE "moving paradise and earth" to make Reigns "the substance of the organization... for the following decade"; while "numerous fans know" that Dean Ambrose "is the genuine dull stallion, both on camera and behind the scenes". ESPN portrayed that "WWE began building Roman Reigns as the following awesome legend of the organization around year and a half prior", however Reigns rather turned into "the most scorned wrestler WWE has had since it turned Sgt. Butcher into an Iraq-identifying deceiver in 1990". Leading up to WrestleMania 32, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Rikishi and Hulk Hogan called for Reigns to turn heel. Meanwhile, amid meetings advancing WrestleMania 32, Anoa'i recognized the fan backfire however announced that WWE is a "children appear" and that he wasn't wrestling to inspire "developed men" who boo him. He insubordinately told his faultfinders that he would not trust any of their negative suppositions of him. Concerning his spoilers, Anoa'i instructed them to "keep on being prepared to boo. Will be frantic quite a while. I'm not going away".

On the Raw after WrestleMania, Reigns proclaimed that he was currently not a "decent person" nor a "terrible person", but rather "the person"; this as far as anyone knows showed an ethically vague tweener character turn. As soon as communicating for Payback ceased, Reigns apparently turned on the group, shouting irately at them. Also in April, Pro Wrestling Dot Net reported that WWE "made a special effort to utilize [the charity] Make A Wish with expectations of getting [Reigns] over as a decent guy". In May, Dave Meltzer said WWE needed Reigns as "the person who does the philanthropy work, so he must be situated as a babyface". Also, WWE's "new contrivance" was situating that individuals really "truly like" Reigns and boo since "it's amusing to boo him", which Meltzer said was "in no way, shape or form valid" in reality. Critics thought about whether WWE was "leaving cash on the table" by not opening Rollins as a face and Reigns as a heel, as this was the opposite fans needed (fans were cheering Rollins and booing Reigns). Reigns wrestled against Seth Rollins at both Money in the Bank and the following Raw, where Reigns played a heel in the primary match and a face in the second, and on the following night on Raw amid his promo, Reigns told the fans who were booing him to "close their mouths". Then, Reigns' suspension brought about Yahoo! Television encouraging WWE to "quit imagining he's some sort of adorable underdog" with a heel turn for Reigns, subsequent to squandering "twelve" chances "since the boos initially ruled" at the 2015 Royal Rumble. Post-suspension and driving into SummerSlam, scholars from the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter composed that Raw was "still the Roman Reigns Show", "with him fundamentally finishing off the show with the last laugh"; post-SummerSlam, "Crude is Roman" continued.

Individual life

Anoaʻi is half Samoan and half Italian. Both his dad, Sika Anoaʻi, and his sibling, Rosey, were proficient wrestlers. As an individual from the Anoaʻi family, he is a cousin to previous expert wrestlers Yokozuna, Rikishi, Umaga, The Tonga Kid, and first cousin once-evacuated to The Usos, and The Rock (non-biological).

Anoaʻi wedded Galina Joelle Becker toward the beginning of December 2014. He has a little girl, with whom he showed up in an open administration declaration in June 2014.

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Anoaʻi majored in management. He is a Catholic and utilizations the indication of the cross each time he enters in the ring.

Anoaʻi considers Bret Hart his wrestling icon.

Titles and achievements

University football

National Collegiate Athletic Association

To start with group All-ACC (2006)

Proficient wrestling

Florida Championship Wrestling

FCW Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Mike Dalton

Star Wrestling Illustrated

Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2015)

Label Team of the Year (2013) with Seth Rollins

Positioned No. 1 of the main 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016

Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Most Improved (2013)

Label Team of the Year (2013) with Seth Rollins

WWE

WWE World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)

WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Seth Rollins

Regal Rumble (2015)

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament (2015)

Slammy Awards (7 times)

Breakout Star of the Year (2013) with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins as The Shield

Great Moment of the Year (2015) – Post-TLC frenzy

Group of the Year (2013, 2014) with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins as The Shield

Whiz of the Year (2014)

Slanting Now (Hashtag) of the Year (2013) – #BelieveInTheShield with Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins