According to various sources on the internet, Rikishi’s net worth is $2 million as of 2022.
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Solofa Fatu Junior (born October 11, 1965, San Francisco, California, United States) is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with the WWE. During his time there, he won the Intercontinental Championship once, the WWE Tag Team Championships once and the World Tag Team Championships twice. He is a member of the Anoa’i family of Samoan wrestlers. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his sons, wrestlers Jey and Jimmy Uso, in 2015.
Rikishi was born in San Francisco to Solofa Fatu Senior and Elevera Anoa’i Fatu and grew up in the Sunnydale Projects in the Visitacion Valley neighbourhood, where his maternal grandparents were preachers. He attended Balboa High School and competed on the wrestling team. In 1982, when he was seventeen years old, Rikishi was wounded in a drive-by shooting that left him with a scar on his abdomen. He claimed in a 2021 interview that he had died for three minutes in the emergency room before being revived. He spent two months in the hospital, after which his mother, fearing for his safety, sent him out of state to live with her brothers Afa and Sika Anoa’i, with whom he trained to become a professional wrestler.
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Rikishi joined the WWE in 1992 alongside Samu and formed a team known as The Headshrinkers. They feuded with the team known as Natural Disasters after they interfered in the latter’s match against Money Inc for the World Tag Team Championship. They won the tag team championship on an episode of Monday Night RAW which they successfully defended against Yokozuna and Crush at King of the Ring. Their title reign ended at a house show to Shawn Michaels and Diesel on August 28. This happened a day before they were scheduled to defend against Irwin R. Schyster and Bam Bam Bigelow at SummerSlam.
According to various sources on the internet, Rikishi’s net worth is $2 million as of 2022. Being a former wrestler, his current salary stands at $100000. He still earns from public appearances and WWE storyline appearances too. His main source of income over the years has been from his time as a wrestler. Being a huge fan favourite also helps and because of that, he is often invited to come on as a guest on many shows.
