While the third-generation member of that family -- The Rock -- is the most well-known, it all started with his grandfather, the legendary High Chief Peter Maivia. Maivia, born in Samoa in the ...

Maivia joins her late husband, WWE Hall of Famer “High Chief” Peter Maivia, in the WWE Hall of Fame, as the two key figures in the rich wrestling history of Hawaii. After The High Chief’s ...

Lia Maivia, who is The Rock's maternal grandmother, ran the Polynesian Pro Wrestling after the death of her husband, Peter Maivia, and ran it for a few years before it was shut down in 1988.

Following the death of her husband, WWE Hall of Famer “High Chief” Peter Maivia in 1982, Maivia assumed leadership of Polynesian Pro Wrestling, a National Wrestling Alliance territory in Hawaii.