From the early days of "The High Chief" Peter Maivia and The Wild Samoans to the present day with Roman Reigns and The Usos among WWE's top stars, the Anoa'i family has been at the center of the ...

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.

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 ...