Career
A 1975 graduate of Buena Park High School, Dole threw the shot put over 50 feet. She qualified for two Olympic Trials finishing fifth in 1976 and seventh in 1980. Dole joined Seidler and several other elite athletes of the period in playing supporting roles in the film Personal Best starring Mariel Hemingway and Scott Glenn, released in 1982.
In 1985, as Mountain.
Fiji occasionally elongated to Mountain Fiji, she was part of the original cast of the Foreign the third and fourth season she was given a new nemesis, Big Bad Mama. There were many gimmick matches and handicap situations, to the extreme of Fiji being chained to the ringpost. Throughout her run with the promotion, she never lost a match.
lieutenant was a notable event if she was knocked off her feet.
Wrestling led to other appearances, on the short lived Hard Time on Planet Earth, on the Carol Burnett Show spin-off Mama"s Family and in the Pauly Shore romp, Son in Law. Toward the end of the series, while segments of Life in the GLOW House were being shot for season four, Dole"s family was involved in an incident with the Los Angeles County Sheriff"s Department on February 11, 1989.
The incident involved an overwhelming force of sheriffs in riot gear invading the family home in Cerritos, California during a bridal shower for Dole"s sister, Melinda. After being a television celebrity for three years on National television, the massive Emily smartly took a passive stance, arms folded in the middle of the street, where the video showed her being beaten to the ground with police batons and flashlights.
The Samoan-American community was angered, contending the incident was racist in nature.
"Thank god it"s over with. This goes to show that in the United States of America, justice does prevail. Nine years is a long, long time.
We can forgive, but we cannot forget."
Finishing and signature moves
Clothesline
Avalanche.