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6 unusual facts about Samoa Joe


Abbas Jadidi

Jadidi was once mentioned in a promo by Kurt Angle during his rivalry with Samoa Joe.

Akitoshi Saito

On July 22, he and Akiyama lost the titles to TNA's Samoa Joe and Magnus, ending their reign at exactly seven months to the day.

Andy Douglas

Douglas disappeared from TNA television to sell the injury, then returned on the May 18 episode of TNA Impact! to rescue Chase Stevens from Samoa Joe.

Naomichi Marufuji

Marufuji returned to the United States to wrestle for Ring of Honor on the main event of the "Best in the World" show on March 25, 2006 show in New York City, teaming with Kenta for the first time in the United States against the team of Samoa Joe and Bryan Danielson; the team of Marufuji and Kenta won after Kenta pinned Danielson, but after Marufuji tried and failed to lift Joe.

Roy Bevis

During Frontiers of Honor, a cross-promotional show between FWA and Ring of Honor in the United Kingdom, Samoa Joe their ROH Champion faced The Zebra Kid in a match that would make the belt a "World Title" as it was being defending outside the United States.

SkyDome Arena

It has also been the site of several large independent professional wrestling shows, featuring stars such as Raven, CM Punk, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Mick Foley, Steve Corino, Doug Williams, and D'Lo Brown.


Slammiversary 10

The undercard also featured acclaimed matches such as A.J Styles and Kurt Angle defeating Kazarian and Christopher Daniels for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, Mr. Anderson defeating Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy in a TNA World Title Contender's match, and Austin Aries retaining the TNA X Division Championship by defeating Samoa Joe.

Texas All-Star Wrestling

Samoa Joe from TNA, Harlem Heat 2000 (Big T and Stevie Ray) from World Championship Wrestling, and Tammy Lynn Sytch, Christy Hemme and Daivari from World Wrestling Entertainment have all made appearances for the promotion as well as older wrestlers such as Abdullah the Butcher, Kamala and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, the latter holding the promotion's heavyweight title in 2003.


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Christian's Coalition

Tomko, meanwhile, later left TNA for Japan, but ended up coming back for one last appearance against Samoa Joe when many of his Inoki Genome Federation bookings were canceled, before he tried out and Christian signed back with their former employer WWE.