Rikishi admitted injuring Austin, claiming that he had done so in order to allow his cousin The Rock to achieve stardom, insisting that Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund, Hulk Hogan, and Austin-" The Great White Hope "-had always been pushed over Samoan performers such as High Chief Peter Maivia and Jimmy " Superfly " Snuka, who he believed had been held back, this turned Rikishi heel in the coming weeks.

Bossman participated in the 2000 Royal Rumble match, where he eliminated Rikishi ( with the help of five other competitors ), Chyna, and Faarooq before being eliminated by The Rock.

After Fatu received gradual training, he returned on the November 13, 1999 episode of WWF Metal as Rikishi Fatu beating Julio Fantastico, the Rikishi name being a sumo wrestling term similar to his cousin Yokozuna's professional wrestling name.

In 2000, the Pepsi Arena hosted the World Wrestling Federation's No Mercy, notable for the return of Steve Austin to active competition after being injured at the hands of Rikishi.

Rikishi would be released from the company shortly after the title loss, while Scotty remained with the company until being released on May 15, 2007.

He returned for a third time the following year, at WrestleMania 2000, but again was thwarted by Kane, as well as his tag team partner that night, Rikishi.

Rikishi ranked in the lower divisions wear a black cotton mawashi both for training in and in competition.

The duo entered the eight-team tournament for the new WWE Tag Team Championship, sneaking past Rikishi and Mark Henry in the opening round, before starting a feud with the newly formed tag team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.

Also, in the year 2000, Stone Cold Steve Austin competed in a 6 man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon for the WWF Championship, against Triple H, the Undertaker, Rikishi, Kurt Angle and The Rock.

At Judgment Day, Rico was forced to team with Rikishi to defeat his clients, Billy and Chuck for the World Tag Team Championship.

On June 6 edition of SmackDown !, Rico turned on Rikishi by helping Billy and Chuck in pinning Rikishi for the tag titles.

At Judgment Day, Rikishi and Rico ( Rikishi's mystery partner of Mr. McMahon's choosing ) defeated Billy and Chuck for the Tag Titles after Rico accidentally hit Chuck with a roundhouse kick.

Rikishi became famous for giving wrestlers the Stink Face, as his butt was rubbed in the face of an opposing wrestler.

from Chris Benoit, Rikishi qualified for the 2000 King of the Ring tournament.

He is well known for his career in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he performed as Grand Master Sexay as part of the tag team Too Cool with Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi.

Vader has been signed to wrestle Rikishi on October 12, 2012 for Pro Wrestling Syndicate in Rahway NJ.

The Basham Brothers and Shaniqua faced Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi at the No Way Out pay-per-view in 2004 in a handicap match for the tag team titles but lost the match when Shaniqua was pinned, and after the match she was released from her contract leaving the Bashams without a manager.

Both the team of Scotty Too Hotty and Rikishi and the Basham Brothers also got involved in the brawl, leading to a fatal four-way match at WrestleMania XX for the WWE Tag Team Championship.

Their success would peak later in the year when Scotty and Sexay defeated Edge and Christian for the Tag Team Championship on an episode of Raw is War on May 29, 2000, while Rikishi would defeat Chris Benoit for the Intercontinental Championship on June 20.

In 2009, Sexay and Rikishi reunited to compete for the Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania: Let The Battle Begin Tour in Australia.

Rikishi is a Norwegian movie released in the U. S. on September 10, 2004 about wealthy elderly people who set up an illegal gambling game in a faraway place, but finding a winner can sometimes be hard.

Rikishi in jonidan and below are allowed to wear only a thin cotton robe called a yukata, even in winter.

Rikishi are not normally allowed to eat breakfast and are expected to have a form of siesta after a large lunch.

In early 2004, Shaniqua and The Basham Brothers sparked a feud with the then WWE Tag Team Champions Scotty 2 Hotty and Rikishi.

Shaniqua joined her team in a handicap WWE Tag Team championship match against Rikishi and Scotty Too Hotty at No Way Out.

Shaniqua's team lost when she was pinned following a Banzai Drop from Rikishi.

At Unforgiven, Chyna helped Guerrero in retaining his title against Rikishi.

" At No Mercy, Austin was back to face Rikishi in a No Holds Barred match.

During the match, Austin motioned he was going to drive his truck into Rikishi, who by that time was a bloody mess.

During a handicap match against Rikishi and Kurt Angle, Triple H came down with the apparent intention of teaming with Austin.

He brought back Piper's Pit on the April 10 episode of SmackDown !, and after aligning with Sean O ' Haire, Piper smashed a coconut over the head of Rikishi, a relative of Snuka.

At Backlash that month, Rikishi returned the favor to Piper.

After WrestleMania, Big Snow took on a comical gimmick where he began mimicking other wrestlers, lampooing Rikishi as Showkishi, The Berzerker as Shonan the Barbarian, and Val Venis as The Big Snow go and ski.

This led to him wrestling Big Van Vader, Doink the Clown, Rikishi, Road Warrior Animal, Sycho Sid and even Lita ), losing to each except Doink, in Raw's 1000th episode.

In August 2002 he returned to the WWE after wrestling several matches with seemingly no character or purpose, until November 21 when John Cena was pinned by Rikishi.

Buchanan came out and attacked Rikishi after the match thus aligning himself with Cena, who had recently developed a rapper gimmick in which he would freestyle rhyme about his opponent as he made his entrance.

At SummerSlam 2000, Richards, Buchanan, and The Goodfather won a 6-man tag match against Too Cool and Rikishi.

Other cousins also include Rikishi, Tonga Kid, and Yokozuna.

On May 9 edition of SmackDown !, Rico wrestled his first match in WWF, where he teamed with Billy and Chuck to defeat Al Snow, Maven and Rikishi.

In 1862, she was finally admitted for private study by the Society of Apothecaries.

Germany's exclusion was a result of prejudice towards Germans by the allied powers after World War I Germany was finally admitted into IUPAC during 1929.

In 1949, Hilda Terry wrote a letter challenging that rule, and after more than six months of debates and votes, three women were finally admitted for membership in 1950 — Terry, Edwina Dumm and gag cartoonist Barbara Shermund.

Once he allayed her fears, he admitted wanting even more children just like their mother, and Torres was shown as finally enjoying the pregnancy (" Lineage ").

On January 26, 1837, Michigan was finally admitted to the Union as the 26th state, without the Toledo Strip.

In February 1676, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in July, he moved into the Observatory where he lived until 1684, when he was finally appointed priest to the parish of Burstow, Surrey.

He flatly denied paternity for 20 years but finally admitted it in 2008.

In the Latin Church before 1972, tonsure admitted someone to the clerical state, after which he could receive the four minor orders ( ostiary, lectorate, order of exorcists, order of acolytes ) and then the major orders of subdiaconate, diaconate, presbyterate, and finally the episcopate, which Catholic doctrine sees as " the fullness of Holy Orders ".

Director Lasse Hallström admitted he was initially looking for a less good-looking actor but finally settled on DiCaprio as he had emerged as " the most observant " among all auditioners.

In his autobiography My Prison Without Bars, published by Rodale Press on January 8, 2004, Rose finally admitted publicly to betting on baseball games and other sports while playing for and managing the Reds.

Well before he finally sought treatment for alcoholism, Mantle admitted his hard living had hurt both his playing and his family.

The case went through many hearings and finally to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that Meredith had the right to be admitted to the state school.

" Angus withdrew for the time being, but under pressure from various sources the Queen finally admitted him to the council of regency in February 1525.

By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.

The network finally admitted the hoax, and Frakes distanced himself from the show.

It then became part of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and finally, part of Tennessee after it was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state.

She did succeed in being admitted to PARADA, the academy's preparatory school, and finally, on her fourth attempt, she graduated and was trained at RADA.

He admitted that in 1983 he bought "$ 2, 000 ( worth ) of cocaine " and partied for five days afterward, when he says he finally realized his condition and quit for good.

At first, West denied ever marrying Wallace but finally admitted in July 1937, in reply to a legal interrogatory, that they had been married.

In 2008, after many years of denial, Morton Sobell finally admitted he was a Soviet spy and confirmed Julius Rosenberg was " in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information ... the atomic bomb.

After denying having any drugs in his possession, he finally admitted to police that he had black tar heroin in his shoe.

Jordan was finally admitted to membership on 14 December 1955.

Several years later, after becoming a mother herself, Lewis finally confronted her mother, who finally admitted the truth, stating that Judy was " a walking mortal sin ".

In 1898 he had to deal with the delicate situation caused by Captain Marchand's occupation of the town of Fashoda in the Sudan ( the Fashoda Incident ) for which, as he admitted in a speech in the chamber on 23 January 1899, he accepted full responsibility, since it arose directly out of the Liotard expedition ; and in March 1899 he concluded an agreement with Britain by which the difficulty was finally adjusted, and France consolidated her vast colonial empire in North-West Africa.