Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
71
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 18, 1943 ( 74 years old )
Place of Birth
Suva, Fiji
Also Known As
Jimmy Superfly Snuka
Great Snuka
Big Snuka
The Superfly
Tami Snuka
"Superfly" Jimmy Snuka
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka
James Reiher
James Reiher was a Fijian American professional wrestler. He is better known by the ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Snuka wrestled for several promotions from the 1970s to 2010s. He was best known for his time in WWE in the 1980s and was credited with introducing the high-flying style of wrestling to the WWE. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1996, but was quietly removed from the Hall of Fame section of WWE's website, in 2015, after he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend in 1983. Snuka was the inaugural ECW World Heavyweight Champion (a title he held twice) in Eastern Championship Wrestling (later Extreme Championship Wrestling). His children, Sim Snuka and Tamina Snuka are both professional 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, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Snuka pleaded not guilty, but was ultimately found unfit to stand trial in June 2016 due to being diagnosed with dementia. As his health declined, the charges were dismissed on January 3, 2017. Snuka died twelve days later at the age of 73.
Known For
WrestleMania
1985-03-31WWE SuperTape vol. 3
1991-01-24WWF SuperTape '92
1992-02-27WWE World Tour
1990-05-23Buffalo Bushido
2009-11-14WWE WrestleMania VII
1991-03-24Bloodstained Memoirs
2009-01-01Savage
1977-01-01WWE Royal Rumble 2008
2008-01-27WWE Royal Rumble 1990
1990-01-21