Samoa Joe (AEW)

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Samoa Joe
Details
Ring name(s)	King Joe Samoa Joe Samoan Joe Joe Seanoa
Billed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Billed weight	280 lb (130 kg)
Born	March 17, 1979 (age 32) Orange County, California
Resides	Orange County, California
Billed from	The Isle of Samoa
Trained by	Cincinnati Red John Delayo William Regal Yoshiaki Fujiwara Johnny Hemp
Debut	September 1999

Nuufolau Joel "Joe" Seanoa (born March 17, 1979) is an American efed wrestler, better known by his ring name, Samoa Joe. He is currently under contract with Attitude Era Wrestling.

Contents 1 Efed wrestling career 1.1 Attitude Era Wrestling 1.1.1 Debut and injury (2011) 1.1.2 Return and the Tribe (2012-2013) 1.1.3 Return (2015-present) 2 In wrestling 3 Championship and accomplishments 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Efed wrestling career

[edit] Attitude Era Wrestling

[edit] Debut and injury (2011)

[edit] Return and the Tribe (2012-2013)

[edit] Return (2015-present)

[edit] In wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • CCS Enzuigiri (Jumping twisting enzuigiri while facing away from a cornered opponent)
  • Chimera-Plex (German suplex followed into a dragon suplex and finished with an X-Plex)
  • Coquina Clutch (TNA) / The Clutch (TNA) / The Choke (Independent circuit) (Rear naked choke, sometimes transitioned into a suplex)
  • Island Driver (Sitout side powerslam, sometimes from the second rope, or an over the shoulder reverse piledriver)
  • Muscle Buster, sometimes from the second rope

• Signature moves
  • Atomic Drop
  • Chop to the back of a seated opponent followed by a football kick to the chest and finished with a jumping knee drop
  • Death Valley driver, sometimes from the second rope
  • Elbow Suicida (Suicide dive transitioned into a flying forearm smash)
  • Facewash
  • Inverted atomic drop followed by a running single leg dropkick and finished with a running senton
  • Forearm smash to a cornered opponent sometimes followed by a CCS Enzuigiri
  • Lariat
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Dragon
  • Exploder
    • German
    • Half nelson
    • Head and arm
  • Olé Kick (Running arched big boot to the face of an opponent seated on a chair next to a guardrail)
  • Powerbomb followed into either a prawn hold, a thigh-held single leg Boston crab, an STF or a crossface
  • Samoan drop
  • Samoan Elbow (Feint leg drop transitioned into an elbow drop to the opponent's chest)
  • Sidewalk slam
  • Snap scoop powerslam followed into either a cover attempt or a crucifix armbar
  • STF
  • STJoe (One-armed side slam, as a counter to an oncoming opponent)

• Managers
  • Armando Estrada

• Nicknames
  • "The Samoan Suplex Machine"
  • "The Samoan Submission Machine"
  • "The Nation of Violence"

• Entrance themes
  • "Nation of Violence" by Dale Oliver

[edit] Championship and accomplishments

• Attitude Era Wrestling
  • AEW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)¹, ²
  • AEW Award for Match of the Year (2014) – War Games match for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestle War

¹ Joe's first reign was as a Co-champion with Chris Jericho
² Jose's second reign came after defeating Jericho to become the Undisputed AEW Championship

[edit] References

[edit] External links