Then the name would become Rikishi Phatu. The name was eventually shortened to Rikishi when he started teaming with Too Cool. He had gained a great deal of weight, bleached his hair blonde, and exchanged his long trousers for a thong. It was at this point that Rikishi's popularity began to soar as their post-match dance routine became popular with fans. During the Royal Rumble , Rikishi eliminated seven opponents in the Royal Rumble match; he was eliminated by six wrestlers working together.
Two of those seven were Too Cool themselves, whom Rikishi eliminated after they performed their dance routine in the middle of the match. Rikishi became famous for giving wrestlers the Stinkface , as his butt was rubbed in the face of an opposing wrestler.
This move became very popular with the fans. On June 25 he defeated Benoit and Val Venis in the quarter and semi-finals respectively, but both his opponents hit him with a steel chair after losing, weakening his shoulder and helping Kurt Angle defeat him in the finals. Stemming from Venis's attack at King of the Ring, Rikishi faced Venis on July 6 and lost his title after Tazz hit him with a television camera. In the course of the match, Rikishi ascended the cage and, in a move reminiscent of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka , leapt from the top, splashing Venis.
Rikishi was defeated by Venis shortly after when Tazz once again hit him with a television camera. However, Foley stated later that night in the ring that Rikishi at that point had not debuted yet. The match went to a no contest when Austin dragged Rikishi to the parking lot and attempted to run him over, but a police car drove in front of Austin's car, saving Rikishi.
Though Austin was arrested, he had badly injured Rikishi, inflicting numerous cuts and bruises to his face. After a number of instances where Austin was attacked backstage by an unseen assailant, it became clear that Rikishi had an accomplice. During a handicap match pitting Rikishi and Kurt Angle against Austin, Triple H came to the ring, seemingly to aid Austin, but swerved the audience by attacking Austin with a sledgehammer.
This led to Triple H revealing that he had masterminded the assault, relegating Rikishi to his hired muscle. Rikishi never reclaimed the popularity he enjoyed throughout his initial run as Rikishi. Rikishi lost to The Rock at Survivor Series. He then participated in the six-man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon for the WWF Championship, during which Vince McMahon drove a flatbed truck to ringside in an effort to dismantle the cage and stop the match.
However, Rikishi was chokeslammed from the top of the cell into the truck bed by the Undertaker. He won a match entitling him to enter the Royal Rumble at number He even eliminated the Undertaker but he did not last long in the Rumble match before being eliminated by The Rock.
The team split when Rikishi was sidelined with an eardrum injury, and Haku was later released. Rikishi returned from injury on May 7, and was urged by Foley to become a good guy again after delivering the stinkface to Stephanie McMahon who was quoted as saying the following week that he stuck his cottage cheese, oily ass right in her face, that she could see the discoloration of the skin between his legs, that the pimples on his butt cheeks popped against her skin and that the stench of his lingering excretion was still in her nose a week afterwards.
He wrestled for several weeks before suffering a shoulder injury which caused him to miss much of The year-old star — who delighted fans during the Attitude Era and beyond — has opened up on the horrific ordeal which took place before he became a household name in wrestling when he was 17 years old. They just said that the bullet, it was a twenty-two, actually hit the side of my rib, which saved my heart.
Rather than feel hatred for the person who shot at him, Rikishi — who is helping rapper Bow Wow train for a WWE career — insisted he would actually like closure and offered an emotional message to them. I forgive you, man.
Rikishi started out in as a babyface in Lutte Internationale promotion in Montreal. Later he. Rikishi was all about helping the community. Rikishi was repackaged as The Sultan for two years for a. His Dancing Fun gimmick was a hugely popular with the fans and remains a highlight of his career. Rikishi was also involved in an angle where he attacked Stone Cold in a car.
It was actually to wrote. Stone Cold off television so he could have surgery, but in kayfabe he said he had attacked Stone Cold.
0コメント