1. The daughter of professional wrestler Jimmy Tamina Snuka, she began wrestling in 2009 and worked for World Xtreme Wrestling, and she signed a contract with WWE the following year.
25 Facts About Tamina Snuka
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Tamina Snuka first became involved in professional wrestling after she received the first Lia Maivia Scholarship to train at the Wild Samoan Training Center in Minneola, Florida.
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Tamina Snuka returned three months later at the Survivor Series pay-per-view as a heel, interrupting a segment between AJ Lee and Vickie Guerrero by attacking AJ from behind.
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Tamina Snuka returned to WWE programming in late September 2013, taking on the role as Divas Champion AJ Lee's bodyguard.
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AJ went on to captain a team at Survivor Series in a seven-on-seven elimination tag team match against the cast of Total Divas, where Tamina Snuka was the penultimate eliminated.
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On February 23,2014, at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Tamina Snuka accidentally superkicked AJ during her title match against Cameron, and eventually caused a disqualification when Cameron almost won the match.
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Eleven months after having undergone surgery following a torn ACL on June 4,2014, Snuka, billed simply as Tamina again, returned on the May 4,2015, episode of Raw, allying herself with Naomi, as the two attacked The Bella Twins.
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AD were the first team to be eliminated courtesy of Team Bella when Tamina Snuka was pinned by Brie, and PCB would win the match.
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On February 18,2017, Tamina Snuka made her in-ring return in a tag-team match at a SmackDown live event, where she and Natalya scored a victory over Alexa Bliss and Carmella.
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On January 28,2018, at Royal Rumble, Tamina Snuka entered at number 7 during the first women's Royal Rumble match, in which she was eliminated by Lita.
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Shortly thereafter, Tamina Snuka would go on hiatus due to a torn rotator cuff and underwent a successful surgery.
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Shortly after her return, Tamina Snuka started an alliance with Nia Jax, after multiple confrontations between the two.
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At Survivor Series, Tamina Snuka eliminated Naomi before she got eliminated by Carmella.
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Tamina Snuka would participate in the Women's Royal Rumble match at the Royal Rumble on January 27,2019, entering at number 10, eliminating Mickie James, before being eliminated by Charlotte Flair.
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Tamina Snuka later lost the championship to R-Truth later on in the night.
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At the Royal Rumble event on January 26,2020, Tamina Snuka competed in the women's Royal Rumble match, entering at number 14, lasting less than a minute before being eliminated by Bianca Belair.
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At WrestleMania 36, Tamina Snuka was the first woman eliminated after the four other competitors pinned her at once.
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At the Money in the Bank event, Tamina Snuka failed to win the title.
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At the beginning of January 2021, Tamina Snuka turned heel , when formed an alliance with Natalya while "putting the women's tag team division on notice".
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At the Royal Rumble event on January 31,2021, Tamina Snuka competed in the women's Royal Rumble match, but was eliminated by Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler.
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Tamina Snuka was used sporadically on Main Event tapings in early 2023, losing to Michin on the March 3 taping in what would be Tamina Snuka's final appearance with the WWE.
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Tamina Snuka was removed from WWE's active roster in July 2024.
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Tamina Snuka made her in-game debut in WWE 2K15 and appears in WWE 2K16 WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, WWE 2K20, WWE 2K22, WWE 2K23, WWE 2K24 and WWE 2K25.
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Tamina Snuka is the second daughter of Jimmy Snuka from his second wife, Sharon Snuka.
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Tamina Snuka is the sister of former WWE wrestler Jimmy Snuka, Jr.