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Sione Havea Vailahi (born 6 September 1958) is a Tongan professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, The Barbarian.He is best known for his various stints with Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and for being a part of tag teams the Powers of Pain with The Warlord and the Faces of Fear with Meng.
Other wrestlers who were part of the Heenan Family, at one time or another, were Ken Patera, Paul Orndorff, Adrian Adonis, The Missing Link, "The King" Harley Race, The Islanders (Haku and Tama), Hercules, The Barbarian, The Red Rooster, and The Brooklyn Brawler. Several of them—most notably Hercules and Race—challenged Hogan for the WWF ...
John Eric Nord (born October 18, 1959) [1] is an American retired professional wrestler.He is best known for his appearances with the American Wrestling Association and World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s as Nord the Barbarian and Yukon John and with the World Wrestling Federation, All Japan Pro Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling in the 1990s as The Berzerker and under his ...
Terry Scott Szopinski [1] [2] (born March 28, 1962) is an American professional wrestler.He is best known by his ring name The Warlord and for his tenures in Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as one-half of the Powers of Pain alongside The Barbarian.
Tonga ʻUliʻuli Fifita (born 10 February 1959) is a Tongan professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Haku [1] and his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Meng.
A feud then took place between The Warlord and The Barbarian. Baby Doll soon stopped managing The Warlord, and The Warlord and The Barbarian stopped feuding. Jones then started to manage The Warlord as well and teamed him up with The Barbarian as the "Powers of Pain". [2] Later on Jones brought The Powers of Pain to the NWA in late 1987.
The brothers were together known as "The Barbarian Brothers" and "The Barbarians" and were branded as "The World's Strongest Twins" [1] in personal appearances. Their public strength feats included 500-pound reverse-grip bench presses (by David), 150-pound dumbbell cheat curls for reps (by Peter), and 315-pound presses behind the neck for reps.
Fatu debuted as a professional wrestler in 1983, [1] after being trained by the Wild Samoans. [4] Shortly after debuting he joined the World Wrestling Federation as "Samoan No. 4," in May 1983 wrestling at untelevised house shows before making his television debut in the fall of 1983 as The Tonga Kid.