After seven years of donating their services to the Spirit of the Lehigh Valley organization, it has become a cherished holiday tradition for the father and son wrestling duo to do their part in bringing smiles to the faces of children who made not have much to smile about.   Additionally, six years ago Afa Anoa’i and his wife Lynn, also founded a non-profit organization of their own, the USO Foundation.

The Foundation was created to provide at-risk kids with a safe and secure after-school program that emphasizes the importance of education and living a productive life with moral direction, through the popularity and drawing power of professional wrestling.  One of the Foundation’s greatest success stories is a man named Herberto Irrizary Jr, who has gone on to become a popular wrestler nicknamed, “Puerto Rican Hurricane Havoc“.  To show his gratitude to the Anoa’i family and the USO Foundation, he volunteered his time at this year’s holiday party, signing autographs and taking pictures with the children.

The Anoa’i family has traveled the globe, performing in front of millions of adoring fans, before retiring to their adopted home of Whitehall, PA.  The elder Anoa’I also runs The Wild Samoan Training Center, a school for aspiring wrestlers and World X-treme Wrestling, a wrestling federation known world-wide for the professionalism and talent of its stars.