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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.
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 Faces of Fear was a professional wrestling tag team of The Barbarian and Meng in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that existed between 1996 and 1999. The two were first paired together in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as part of The Heenan Family, a heel faction, where Meng was known as Haku.
In late 1998, Jimmy Hart reunited Meng, Barbarian and Hugh Morrus to form a new version of his old Continental Wrestling Association stable The First Family. Barbarian would inexplicably turn on Meng during a match in a WCW World Tag Team Championship tournament match on the February 11, 1999 episode of WCW Thunder.
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 ...
2.2.5 Various feuds, teaming with Barbarian and departure (1990–1992) ... Fifita made his surprise WCW debut on the 28 May 1994 episode of Saturday Night, ...
Rhodes and Barbarian were the remaining participants and continued to fight each other. Barbarian hit Rhodes with a Diving Headbutt but was unable to eliminate him. Both men climbed the over the top of the cage, where Rhodes hit Barbarian with two Bionic Elbows to win the Bunkhouse Stampede for the third consecutive time. [2] [3]
WCW aired the 35th and last Clash of the Champions on August 21, 1997. In 1997 the determination was made to discontinue air Clash of the Champions due to the start of Thunder. [2] WWE, the owner of the WCW properties since 2001, resurrected the name under the WWE Clash of Champions pay-per-view starting in 2016.