AEW star Samoa Joe recently appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. During the interview, he discussed various topics, including being one of the few Samoan wrestlers not connected to a larger wrestling family.
Joe said, “I mean, there’s a few. But it just became a funny thing because when I came up in the indies, a lot of Samoan guys who were around would kind of claim, ‘Oh yeah dude, I’m Rock’s cousin.’”
On not wanting to live off of another family’s name:
“And to me, I was always like, ‘I don’t want to be living off a family name that isn’t mine.’ So I was always real meticulous about being like, ‘Nah, I’m not an Anoa’i, but they’re an awesome family and they paved the way.’ But yeah, I was really kind of adamant, like, I was gonna make my own name.”
You can check out Joe’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
