A Popular Professional Wrestler
A Popular Professional Wrestler
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a Popular MP
Leota Lu II 
Leota Lu II is now a veteran Member of Parliament in Samoa. He has been selected as the personality of the week however for his contribution to inspiring the young Samoan wrestlers and sportsmen to move into the professional stage. Leota Lu II was a well known professional wrestler in New Zealand, Australia and Asia in the early 1970s whilst the use of the word professional sports person was not popular. Some have even referred to Leota as the original "Rock". The question that has been often asked is where would Leota Lu be if he was to peak in his wrestling career in the 1990s. Some say, if that was case Leota Lu would be somewhere in the USA earning top money.
Afioga Leota Lu II when asked about his professional sports achievements is very modest. As a senior member of the HRPP party he is now very reserved but has still the bubbly personality that makes him a popular man around the kava bowls of Apia. Leota Lu II may have been the first professional wrestler in world to switch to politics in the early 1980s .Jesse "The Ventura" only made the move into politics in the USA in the mid-1990s