Jimmy Snuka
Titles Won:
- NWA ECW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- NWA ECW Television Championship
- NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (6 times)
- NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (7 times) – with Frankie Laine and Dutch Savage (6)
- WWF Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
Snuka wrestled for several promotions from the 1970s to 1990s. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in the early to mid-1980s and is credited with introducing the high-flying style of wrestling to the WWF.
He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1996. Snuka was the first WrestleMania opponent of The Undertaker (at the seventh annual event), this being the first match in the latter’s undefeated WrestleMania streak. Snuka was the inaugural ECW Heavyweight Champion in Eastern Championship Wrestling (later Extreme Championship Wrestling) and held the title on two occasions. His children, Jimmy Reiher, Jr. and Tamina Snuka, are also wrestlers.
Snuka was indicted and arrested in September 2015 on third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, in relation to the May 1983 death of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino. He pleaded not guilty.
Notable Feuds
vs. Jesse Ventura
vs. Lou Albano, Freddie Blassie and Ray Stevens
vs. Don Muraco
vs. Roddy Piper
vs. Colonel DeBeers
Other Notable Achievements
AJPW World’s Strongest Tag Determination League (1981) – with Bruiser Brody
CWA British Commonwealth Championship
CWA International Tag Team Championship – with JT Southern
AWA Midwest Heavyweight Championship
ECPW Heavyweight Championship
NWA National Tag Team Championship – with Terry Gordy
IWS United States Championship
NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Mid-Atlantic version)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) (2 times) – with Paul Orndorff (1) and Ray Stevens (1)
NCW Tag Team Championship – with Johnny Gunn
NWF Heavyweight Championship
NWL Heavyweight Championship
NEW Heavyweight Championship
NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version) – with Don Leo Jonathan
NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship
NWA Texas Tag Team Championship – with Gino Hernandez
NWA Tri-State Heavyweight Championship
NWA West Viriginia/Ohio Heavyweight Championship
New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2010
Pro Wrestling Illustrated Match of the Year (1982) vs. Bob Backlund in a cage match on June 28
Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (1983)
Tag Team of the Year (1980) with Ray Stevens
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of 2012
USA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
USA Pro New York Heavyweight Championship
WWWA Heavyweight Championship
WWWA Intercontinental Championship
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Tag Team of the Year (1981) with Terry Gordy
Best Flying Wrestler (1981)
Best Wrestling Maneuver (1981, 1983) Superfly Splash
