The Barbarian has definitely had an interesting wrestling career, in many different organizations. A firmer Sumo wrestler, Barbarian then wrestled some in Memphis and other places as King Konga. This later became Konga the Barbarian, then was shortened to just the Barbarian. The Barbarian has mainly made his fame as a tag-team partner in various promotions. He was the partner of Steve DiSalvo in Florida, as the Untouchables, but this team did not last long.

The Barbarian's fame grew when he began to team with the Warlord as the Powers of Pain in the NWA. The two, along with Ivan Koloff, won the NWA 6-man Tag-Team title from Dusty Rhodes, Hawk, and Paul Ellering (who was subbing for Animal at the time). The belts were vacated later that year, however, when the Powers of Pain jumped over to the WWE. Unfortunately, the Barbarian and the warlord were mainly mid-carders in the WWE, and never made a sizeable impact despite the many feuds they had.

When the Barbarian left the WWE, he soon traveled overseas. I know he teamed at one point with Scott Norton as the Jurassic Powers. I am not sure, however, that he was "Hercules Hernandez" there, or was one who had won the IWGP Tag-Team belts from the Hell-Raisers. He did wrestle in New Japan for a while, then returned to the WWE as a member of the New Headshrinkers. Again, this team was mainly a mid-card team, and the Barbarian soon reappeared in WCW.

The Barbarian quickly joined up as a member of Jimmy Hart's stable, teaming sometimes with Hugh Morris and Meng. The stable was an on-again, off-again grouping, with the Barbarian and Meng resorting to attacking each other at one point. In the beginning of '99, Hart pulled the group back together, calling the First Family. Meng and the Barbarian (the Faces of Fear) seemed to be a strong possibility to win the Tag-Team Title Tournament, but the Barbarian surprisingly betrayed Meng, kicking him, literally, out of the First Family. That started a mid-card feud between Meng and the Barbarian, which Meng eventually seemed to win.

This is as far as the Barbarian's push got, as he would later depart from WCW. The Barbarian later went down to Australia and wrestled in some i-Generation Wrestling, but information becomes sketchy on what the Big Samoan did next. Since 2001, the Barbarian has been wrestling in International Championship Wrestling.