30 Facts About Tamina Snuka

Tamina Snuka is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Tamina.

Tamina Snuka is a second generation professional wrestler, the daughter of Jimmy Snuka.

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.

At the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Tamina Snuka accompanied The Usos to a tag team match against The Hart Dynasty, which the Usos lost.

Two weeks later, Tamina Snuka accompanied The Usos in a tag team match against Marella and Vladimir Kozlov in a losing effort, but Tamina Snuka would then afterwards stop the Usos from attacking Marella, and blew a kiss to him as she left the ring.

Tamina and Beth would then have a stare down, which resulted in Snuka challenging Phoenix for her title.

At the Money In The Bank pay-per-view, Tamina Snuka teamed up with Kaitlyn and Layla, defeating the team of Beth Phoenix, Natalya and Eve Torres.

Tamina Snuka appeared on the re-branded NXT three days later, where she defeated Kaitlyn.

Also during the match, Tamina Snuka suffered a legitimate back injury.

Tamina Snuka returned to WWE programming in late September 2013, taking on the role as Divas Champion AJ Lee's bodyguard.

Tamina Snuka helped AJ retain her Divas Championship at Battleground by attacking challenger Nikki Bella.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shortly thereafter, Tamina Snuka would go on hiatus due to a torn rotator cuff and underwent a successful surgery.

Shortly after her return, Tamina Snuka started an alliance with Nia Jax, after multiple confrontations between the two.

At Survivor Series, Tamina Snuka eliminated Naomi before she got eliminated by Carmella.

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.

Tamina Snuka later lost the championship to R-Truth later on in the night.

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.

At WrestleMania 36, Tamina Snuka was the first woman eliminated after the four other competitors pinned her at once.

At the Money in the Bank event, Tamina Snuka failed to win the title.

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".

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.

Tamina Snuka made her in-game debut in WWE 2K15 and appears in WWE 2K16 WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, WWE 2K20 and WWE 2K22.

Tamina Snuka is the second daughter of the late WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka from his second wife, Sharon Snuka.

Tamina Snuka is the sister of former WWE wrestler, Deuce.

Tamina Snuka died on January 15,2017, in Pompano Beach, Florida at age 73.