Hollywood stuntman Tanoai Reed (known as Tao on the new American Gladiators) is the great nephew of wrestling promoter Lia Mavia (Peter Mavia's wife). While professional wrestler Lina Fanene(Nia Jax) is Dwayne Johnson's secondly cousin. Sean Maluta, nephew of Afa Anoa'i, was a participant in WWE's first Cruiserweight Classic Tournament .
Samoan Gangstas was a tag team in the independent promotion World Xtreme Wrestling (W X W). The tag team consists of the members from Anoa'i family.
Samoan Gangstas was a tag team made up of brothers from another mother Matt E. Smalls and Sweet Sammy Silk (Matt and Samu Anoa'i). Their tag team was formed in 1997 in WXW, the promotion of one half of The Wild Samoans. Samu's father and Matt's uncle Afa Anoa'i. The duo received success in WXW in the tag team division. On June 24 they won the first WXW Tag Team Championship by beating Love Connection (Sweet Daddy Jay Love and Georgie Love). However they were temporarily suspended and the tiltle was declared vacant. Matt was repackaged as Matty Smalls. They returned in the summer of 1997 and declared Siberian Express (The Mad Russian and Russian Eliminator), on September 17 to win their second WXW Tag Team Championship.
Problems began between Smalls and Smooth. The two partners began feuding with each other and could not focus properly on their tag title. On March 1998, Smooth defeated Smalls in a Loser Leaves Town Match. As a result of losing this match. Smalls was forced to leave the promotion. He left WXW while Smooth focused on the singles career. After a short while. Smalls returned to WXW and the two partners reunited again as Samoan Gangstas and began teaming in the tag team division. They feuded with several tag teams in WXW and focused to regain the WXW Tag Team Championship. However, due to their family disputes and problems with each other, they did not take part in the tournament for the vacated Tag Title, and instead feuded with each other. Samoan Gangstas feuded with each other after their splitting until Smalls left WXW and began wrestling as Kimo. He began teaming with Ekmo (Eddie Fatu) as The Island Boys and the duo worked in Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling (FMW) before signing with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and working in its development territories.