3-Minute Warning

3-Minute Warning

Infobox Wrestling team
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caption=
members=Eddie Fatu (Jamal, Ekmo, Umaga)
Matt Anoa'i (Rosey, Kimo)
Rico Constantino (Rico)
names=3-Minute Warning
Three Minute Warning
The Island Boyz
The Samoan Gangstas
heights=Jamal:
height|ft=6|in=4
Rosey:
height|ft=6|in=5
Rico:
height|ft=6|in=2
weights=convert|938|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
debut=1996
disbanded=2003
promotions=FMW
HWA
MCW
WWE|

3-Minute Warning was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of cousins Matt Anoa'i and Eddie Fatu, most notable for their time with World Wrestling Entertainment.cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Bios/umaga.html|title=Umaga Bio|accessdate=2007-08-26 |publisher=SLAM! Sports] cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Bios/rosey.html|title=Rosey Bio|accessdate=2007-08-26|publisher=SLAM! Sports]

History

Anoa'i and Fatu trained together at the Wild Samoan professional wrestling school operated by members of their family.cite web |url=http://www.wildsamoan.com/Jamal.htm |title=Umaga Bio |accessdate=2007-08-26 |publisher=WildSamoan.com] cite web |url=http://www.wildsamoan.com/Matt.htm |title=Rosey Bio |accessdate=2007-08-26 |publisher=WildSamoan.com] 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 Anoa'i.

In 1996, Matt and Eddie were brought into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) together to take part in an angle with their cousin Solofa Fatu who was working under just his family name with a gimmick that he wanted to be a positive influence on kids and that he wanted to "make a difference" in inner city neighborhoods. Matt and Eddie were brought in as two silent "gangsters" who would watch Fatu's matches from the entrance aisle and stalk him around arenas, making him nervous. Neither gimmick lasted long, and Matt and Eddie were sent to the 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, and for a time Haku served as their manager.

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. 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 the span of one month.

In 2002 they returned to (the now renamed) World Wrestling Entertainment as enforcers for RAW brand General Manager Eric Bischoff. Now known as Jamal (Eddie) and Rosey (Matt), the team was used to squash any activity in the ring that Bischoff deemed "boring". They made their debut on the July 22 episode of "RAW", interrupting a match between D'Lo Brown and Shawn Stasiak that had been previously alloted 3 minutes. When the time limit expired Rosey and Jamal entered through the crowd and laid out both men, to the delight of Bischoff watching on from the entryway. [cite web |url=http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/020722.html |title=RAW results - July 22, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-30 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling] The gimmick continued over the next few weeks, with Bischoff either giving people three minutes to entertain him before they were attacked or otherwise deciding that three minutes of a segment was enough before the team appeared to end it. [cite web|url=http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/020812.html|title=RAW results - August 12, 2002|accessdate=2007-08-30|publisher=Online World of Wrestling] [cite web|url=http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/020819.html |title=RAW results - August 19, 2002|accessdate=2007-08-30|publisher=Online World of Wrestling] [cite web |url=http://onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/020826.html|title=RAW results - August 26, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-30 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling] As a result of the time period, likely chosen for the amount of time the Bischoff produced "Monday Nitro" used to air before "Monday Night Raw" during the Monday Night Wars, the team became known as Three Minute Warning.

For a time, the team used the 2 Skinnee J's song "3 Minutes" as its entrance music. According to 2 Skinnee's guitarist, Lance Rockworthy, the band did not receive any compensation for use of the song. [ [http://www.2sj.com/community/lance_interview.html 2 Skinnee J's ] ]

During the September 12 episode of "SmackDown!" Three Minute Warning and Eric Bischoff crashed the "commitment ceremony" being held for the Billy and Chuck tag team. [cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/smackdown/020912.html |title=SmackDown! results - September 12, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-30 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling ] Afterwards Rico, Billy and Chuck's manager, started managing Three Minute Warning full time. [cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/results/raw/020930.html |title=RAW results - September 30, 2002 |accessdate=2007-08-30 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling] With Rico by their side they engaged in a feud with the Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and Spike) and Jeff Hardy which resulted in their highest-profile match as a team — an Elimination Tables match at the November Survivor Series. [cite web |url=http://prowrestlinghistory.com/supercards/usa/wwf/survivor.html#2002 |title=Survivor Series 2002 results |accessdate=2007-08-30 |publisher=Pro Wrestling History]

The team stayed on the low- and mid-card until June 2003, when Jamal was released from WWE, reportedly after his involvement in a bar fight. Rosey then went to form a superhero tag-team with The Hurricane, while Jamal went to TNA under his "Ekmo Fatu" name before returning to WWE and being repackaged as Umaga.

Championships and accomplishments

*Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | World Entertainment Wrestling
**FMW/WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship (1 time)cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/fmw/fmw-wew-hc-t.html |title=WEW Hardcore Tag Team Title |accessdate=2007-08-04 |publisher=Wrestling-Titles]
*"'Heartland Wrestling Association
**HWA Tag Team Championship (1 time)cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/oh/hwa/hwa-t.html |title=Heartland Wresting Association Tag Team Title |accessdate=2007-08-04 |publisher=Wrestling-Titles]
*"'Memphis Championship Wrestling
**MCW Southern Tag Team Championship (3 times)cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/memphis/mcw/mcw-s-t.html |title=MCW Southern Tag Team Title |accessdate=2007-08-04 |publisher=Wrestling-Titles]

*Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards:*Worst Tag Team (2002)

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