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Taylor Wily (born Teila Tuli, June 14, 1968) is an American actor, former sumo wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is from Laie, Hawaii and is of American Samoan descent. He is commonly known for his recurring role as Kamekona Tupuola on Hawaii Five-0 .
Apr 27, 2022 · Taylor Wily is set to star in a new movie. NBC/YouTube. Since the ending of "Hawaii Five-0" in 2020, Taylor Wily has been relatively out of the spotlight. During the final seasons of the show ...
Taylor Wily. Actor: Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Taylor Wily (Teila Tuli) has the distinction of competing in the first bout held in Ultimate Fighting Championship (2000) or UFC. Wily was a sumo wrestler when UFC was created to determine the best style of fighting. Wily fought Gerard Gordeau at UFC 1: The Beginning (1993) where he quickly lost.
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- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- He was born in Hawaii. This is an easy one to remember. Wily is clearly Hawaiian in every way. In fact, he was born Teila Tuli on June 14, 1969 in Laie, located on the island of Oahu in Honolulu.
- He was a sumo wrestler. This is another fact about Wily that’s really not hard to picture at all. Wily has always used his weight in some way to his benefit.
- He was a UFC fighter. Wily began to look for another way to compete and he ended up turning to UFC, where he competed under his birth name of Teila Tuli.
- He began acting in 1982. It’s strange to think that Wily actually acted before he started fighting. He actually had a role as an extra on 1982’s Magnum, P.I.
One of the few Americans to achieve success in the field of Japanese sumo wrestling, larger-than-life Taylor Wily also made history as the first ever UFC fighter before moving into acting with ...
Taylor Wily (June 14, 1969) also known as Teila Tuli, is a former sumo wrestler-turned-actor who plays Kamekona Tupuola on the Hawaii Five-0. In March 1987, Wily was recruited by former sekiwake Takamiyama Daigorō, another Hawaiian, and joined Azumazeki stable, which Takamiyama had founded the previous year. He was given the shikona (sumo name) of Takamishu. He was unbeaten in his first 14 ...
Taylor Wily. Actor: Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Taylor Wily (Teila Tuli) has the distinction of competing in the first bout held in Ultimate Fighting Championship (2000) or UFC. Wily was a sumo wrestler when UFC was created to determine the best style of fighting. Wily fought Gerard Gordeau at UFC 1: The Beginning (1993) where he quickly lost. Wily never again competed in the sport now known as ...
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