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. He is at present suspended for damaging WWE's Wellness Program.
In the wake of playing university football for Georgia Tech, Anoaʻi began his expert football profession 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 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 primary program debut in November 2012 close by Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose as The Shield. The trio teamed together until June 2014, after which Reigns entered singles rivalry, and that same month he started featuring pay-per-sees in world title contention. In his WWE profession, Reigns is a three-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion, a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion (with Rollins), and was the 2015 Royal Rumble victor and the 2014 Superstar of the Year. He likewise tied the WWE record for most ends in a Survivor Series end match with four in the 2013 event, and set the record for most ends in a Royal Rumble match with 12 in the 2014 event.
Rules has featured various WWE pay-per-sees including WrestleManias 31 and 32, with WWE planning him to be their next "face of the organization". In any case, Reigns' power as a world title-pursuing courageous character has been set apart by faultfinders' dissatisfaction and threatening group responses.
1 Football vocation
2 Professional wrestling vocation
2.1 World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
2.1.1 Developmental domains (2010–2012)
2.1.2 The Shield (2012–2014)
2.1.3 Controversial ascent to high-level status (2014–2015)
2.1.4 WWE World Heavyweight Champion (2015–2016)
3 Persona and gathering
4 Personal life
5 In wrestling
6 Championships and achievements
6.1 Collegiate football
6.2 Professional wrestling
7 References
8 External connections
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
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 doled out 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 primarily in label group matches. On the January 16, 2011, scene of FCW TV, Leakee was a rival in a 30-man Grand Royal, however 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 wind 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 quickly after.
After WWE rebranded FCW to NXT,[28] Anoaʻi, with the new ring name of Roman Reigns, made his presentation on the October 31, 2012 scene of NXT by crushing CJ Parker. After overcoming Chase Donovan two weeks later, Reigns wrestled his keep going match on the December 5 scene of NXT by vanquishing Gavin Reids.
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