The Barbarian (wrestler)
The Barbarian (wrestler)
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).
The Barbarian (wrestler)
His first national exposure was in the NWA territory Jim Crockett Promotions, where the Powers of Pain held the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship until they departed the company in 1988 and joined WWF, where they competed in the tag team division until the team was quietly split in 1990. Barbarian then competed as a singles wrestler until departing in 1992 and returning to WCW, where he became one-half of the final WCW United States Tag Team Champions with Dick Slater. During this time, Barbarian challenged Ron Simmons for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc 1992. He left WCW in 1993 and returned to the WWF in 1994 as Headshrinker Sione to form the New Headshrinkers with Fatu). He left the company in 1995 and made a second return to WCW, where he briefly reunited with The Warlord as the masked Super Assassins. Barbarian would then join Meng to form Faces of Fear and become a part of factions Dungeon of Doom and the First Family).
Early life
Born and raised in Tonga, Sione was one of six teenagers and young men sent by the King of Tonga to Japan to study Sumo wrestling in the mid-1970s. Tonga Fifita was also part of the group. Sione was known in sumo circles as Sachinoshima.
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