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3-Minute Warning

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3-Minute Warning
Rosey (left), Jamal (middle), and Rico (right)
Tag team
MembersRosey / Kimo
Jamal / Ekmo
Rico
Name(s)Armageddon
3-Minute Warning
Three Minute Warning
The Island Boyz
The Samoan Gangstas
Billed heightsJamal:
6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Rosey:
6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Combined
billed weight		939 lb (426 kg; 67.1 st)[1]
Billed fromJamal:
Houston, Texas
Rosey:
Pensacola, Florida
Rico:
Las Vegas, Nevada
Debut1996
DisbandedJune 2003
Years active1996–2003
2006

3-Minute Warning was an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of cousins Matt Anoaʻi and Eddie Fatu, most notable for their time with WWF/E under their ring names of Rosey and Jamal, respectively. As they were the members of the prominent Anoaʻi family, Rosey was the older brother of current WWE wrestler Roman Reigns and Jamal was the father of Zilla Fatu as well as the younger brother of Rikishi & Samuel Fatu(Samoan Savage/Tonga Kid/Tama) and the uncle of Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso, and Solo Sikoa via Rikishi & Jacob Fatu via Samuel Fatu

History

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Anoaʻi and Fatu trained together at the Wild Samoan professional wrestling school operated by members of their family.[2][3] When their training was completed they debuted in their uncle Afa's World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW), where Matt held the WXW Tag Team Championship as one half of the Samoan Gangstas with another cousin, Lloyd Anoaʻi.[4]

In 1996, Matt and Eddie were brought into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)’s Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) "farm league". There they used the individual names Ekmo Fatu (Eddie) and Kimo (Matt), with the team name Island Boyz. They held the HWA Tag Team Championship once,[5] and for a time Haku served as their manager.[6][4] They left HWA together, and in 2000 traveled to Japan to wrestle for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, where they held the FMW Hardcore Tag Team Championship.[7] The next year they returned to the United States to wrestle for Memphis Championship Wrestling, where again they held gold, holding the MCW Southern Tag Team Championship on three occasions in one month.[8]

Rosey during his time as part of 3-Minute Warning

In 2002 they returned to (the now renamed) World Wrestling Entertainment as enforcers for