John Tenta Jr.

John Anthony Tenta Jr was a Canadian sum?tori and professional wrestler best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake After a promising start to his sumo career using the nameKototenzan Tenta switched to professional wrestling and became a highprofile star for the WWF feuding with Hulk Hogan and winning the WWF Tag Team Championship with partner and personal friend Typhoon His professional wrestling career also encompassed runs in World Championship Wrestling where he was known as Avalanche and The Shark All Japan Pro Wrestling and a return to WWF as Golga Tenta died in 2006 after a lengthy battle with cancer Tenta retired from wrestling in 2004 after it was revealed that he had developed bladder cancer and was told he was given a 20 chance to live assuming he continued with his chemotherapy treatments During his November 18 2005 interview on WrestleCrap Radio Tenta announced that a recent radiation dosage did not go as planned and had no effect on the tumor He also announced that multiple tumors had spread to his lungs The first public notice of Tentas death was posted on WWEcom on June 7 2006 On the June 9 2006 edition of SmackDown and the June 12 2006 edition of Raw WWE showed a bumper that read RIP Earthquake John Tenta before each show began Other media John Tentas professional wrestling career garnered him appearances in several video games In 1991 Tenta as Earthquake was portrayed as a feature character in Technos popular arcade video game WWF WrestleFest He was also included in the 1992 home video game WWF Super WrestleMania by LJN for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System he wasnt in the Sega Genesis version In 2004 the Japanese video game developer Spike released King of Colosseum II a puroresuwrestling game for PlayStation 2 that featured Tenta as a playable character it was a Japanonly release On April 14 2009 Tenta was announced as downloadable content for WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2009 which was released April 16 2009 On February 23 2016 he along with Typhoon appeared as downloadable content for WWE 2K16 He also appeared in WWE 2K17 as well as WWE 2K18 along with Typhoon