Chris Jericho is a wrestling veteran who has worked with people from different eras. He recently had Evan Husney & Jason Eisener, the producers of Dark Side of The Ring on the latest episode of Talk Is Jericho. The conversation went well until Chris started talking about Roman Reigns’ dad Sika Anoa’i.
Jericho talked about how he believed that the characters were just as real as they are shown on television. He believed that Sika didn’t know English and would eat raw fish just like his character. He was taken aback when the experience was different to what he had expected.
He recalled the incident saying that as a kid he would go to the Polo Park Inn in Winnipeg and just watch pro wrestlers. The wrestlers stayed there back in the day. Sika is from Samoa and he just walked in. Jericho wasn’t sure of what to expect from the Samoan who would eat raw fish. He said:
It was like that when I was a kid. I remember I used to go hang out at the Polo Park Inn in Winnipeg and just watch pro wrestlers. That’s where they all used to stay. Sika who’s actually Roman Reigns’ dad, came in. He was from Samoa. They actually would do vignettes of Mr. Fuji having him eat raw fish and he couldn’t speak English.
I walked up with a with a pen and a paper and I was like, ‘Please….sign. Sign name. You…sign name with the pen. He looked at me. He goes ‘Fuck off, kid,’ and I didn’t care that he told me to F off, all I cared was like ‘He speaks English! Did anybody else hear that?’
He decided that he would hand his pen and paper and ask him to sign it, but instead of hearing some gibberish language, he heard English and was shocked that the Samoan could speak English. It came as a surprise because back in the day people believed that the wrestlers are exactly like their characters.
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