{"id":163185,"date":"2025-04-19T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/wwe-star-roman-reigns-famous-relatives-the-rock-and-others\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:06:56","slug":"wwe-star-roman-reigns-famous-relatives-the-rock-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/wwe-star-roman-reigns-famous-relatives-the-rock-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Star Roman Reigns&#8217; Famous Relatives: The Rock and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Bloodline storyline is a major part of WWE lore \u2014 and <strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> is arguably at the center of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Reigns \u2014 born Leati Joseph Anoa\u02bbi and known as the \u201cOriginal Tribal Chief\u201d \u2014 is a member of the legendary Anoa\u2019i family, a group that has birthed a slew of pro wrestlers dating back to the 1960s. The family was founded by <strong>Peter Maivia<\/strong> and <strong>Amituana\u2019i Anoa\u2019i<\/strong>, two close friends who established a blood oath to merge their respective families into one, you guessed it, bloodline.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the family has shifted and grown and spawned dozens of brothers, sisters, cousins and other other famous relatives who have graced the world of professional wrestling to varying degrees of success. Keep scrolling to learn more about the famous wrestlers Roman Reigns calls family.\n<\/p>\n<h3>Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3955308\" style=\"width: 200px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Dwayne Johnson<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dwayne and Reigns are distantly (but not blood) related and both members of the Anoa\u2019i family from the Samoan Islands. As such, they often refer to each other as cousins. Dwayne\u2019s grandfather <strong>Peter Maivia<\/strong> is the brother of Reign\u2019s grandfather <strong>Amituana\u2019i Anoa\u2019i<\/strong>. The duo also starred in <em>Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Peter Maivia<\/h3>\n<p>Maiva was a professional wrestler and stunt actor who made a blood pact with his friend, Amituana\u2019i Anoa\u2019i, to blend their families together. He made his professional wrestling debut in 1960 and joined the now-defunct World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1977. His wife, <strong>Ofelia Fuataga<\/strong>, was one of the first pro wrestling female promoters. Though he and Anoa\u2019i were not biologically related, he is considered a full family member.<\/p>\n<h3>Amituana\u2019i Anoa\u2019i<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Pola\u2019ivao Leati Sika Amituana\u2019i Anoa\u2019i<\/strong>, known in the wrestling world as <strong>Sika<\/strong>, was one-half of the Wild Samoans wrestling team with his brother <strong>Afa<\/strong>. He joined the WWF in 1980. Anoa\u2019i died of a heart attack on June 25, 2024.<\/p>\n<h3>Simone Johnson<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3955309\" style=\"width: 200px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3955309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Simone Johnson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/simone-johnson-1090752008.jpg?w=2400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Simone Johnson<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Rich Fury\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Simone is the first daughter of Dwayne Johnson and <strong>Dany Garcia<\/strong>. She made her first televised appearance as a pro wrestler in October 2022 and her first in-ring appearance in April of the following year. As of January 2024, she works as the General Manager of NXT, a developmental brand of WWE.<\/p>\n<h3>Solofa Fatu, Jr.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3955310\" style=\"width: 199px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150.42857142857%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3955310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Rikishi\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rikishi-524329206.jpg?w=2400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Rikishi<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Lilly Lawrence\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Solofa Fatu, Jr.,<\/strong> who wrestles under the name <strong>Rikishi<\/strong>, is also a cousin of Reigns. He is the brother of <strong>Sam Fatu<\/strong> and <strong>Edward Smith Fatu<\/strong>, who wrestles under the name <strong>Umaga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Savelina Fanene<\/h3>\n<p>Fanene, who is known as <strong>Nia Jax<\/strong> in the ring, is a distant cousin of Reigns. She began wrestling in 2014 and first wrestled under the name Fada. She left WWE in 2021 but returned to the ring in September 2023.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>Umaga<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Edward Smith Fatu<\/strong>, or <strong>Umaga<\/strong>, is a cousin of Reigns and has two brothers who are pro wrestlers. He trained with his cousin <strong>Matt Anoa\u2019i<\/strong> at the Wild Samoan professional wrestling school and made his wrestling debut in 1995.<\/p>\n<h3>Yokozuna<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Agatupu Rodney Anoa\u2019i<\/strong>, or <strong>Yokozuna<\/strong>, was a pro wrestler for the WWF. His cousins included Reigns and The Rock. Yokozuna died in his sleep from a pulmonary edema in October 2000.<\/p>\n<h3>Galina Becker<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3955311\" style=\"width: 200px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150.28571428571%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3955311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Galina Becker\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/galina-becker.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Galina Becker<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Allen Berezovsky\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Reigns met his wife, <strong>Galina Becker<\/strong>, when they were both students at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Since then they have welcomed five children together: <strong>Joelle<\/strong>, two older twin boys whose names have not been shared publicly, and another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/wwe-star-roman-reigns-and-wife-galina-expecting-twins-for-2nd-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pair of twin boys<\/a> whose names have not been shared.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/wwe-star-roman-reigns-famous-relatives-the-rock-and-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bloodline storyline is a major part of WWE lore \u2014 and Roman Reigns is arguably at the center of it all. Reigns \u2014 born Leati Joseph Anoa\u02bbi and known as the \u201cOriginal Tribal Chief\u201d \u2014 is a member of the legendary Anoa\u2019i family, a group that has birthed a slew of pro wrestlers dating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}