Jacob Fatu Reveals WWE Had Completely Different Name In Mind For Him

Jacob Fatu gets to use his real name in WWE, but it wasn’t always the plan.

When an experienced wrestler joins WWE from another organization, they often change their name. For example, Mariah May became Blake Monroe, Ricky Starks became Ricky Saints, and Powerhouse Hobbs became Royce Keys. There are also cases of wrestlers who retain their original names, like Ethan Page, Tama Tonga, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, and others.

While nobody can truly explain why some people get a name change in WWE and others don’t, Jacob Fatu was going to have a different name. That was until WWE’s Chief Content Officer, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, told him he could keep his real name.

In an interview with IGN while promoting WWE 2K26, Jacob Fatu discussed what his name would be when he made his WWE debut in April 2024, until he found out he would keep his name.

“My name was actually supposed to be Caesar Sikoa, and I was next to Hunter. (He goes) ‘you got your music yet?’ ‘No, not yet, I don’t even know what my name’s gonna be.’ He turned around like ‘you’re gonna be Jacob Fatu’.”

Jacob Fatu would go on to talk about the development of his WWE theme song.

“But then right on the spot he said there’s two songs. The first song, it wasn’t the track I’ve got now. So there’s two songs, the first song, it was different, but the first song, it had my entrance, what I’m saying on it in the beginning.

So on another note, Hunter played the second one, and the second one is the one I come out to. Hunter liked that one too, but I was just feeling it. I was expecting to come out to a Jey Uso or Jimmy Uso, one of them, but I asked Hunter.

Mind you it wasn’t even me on the intro, it’s me on the intro now, but I asked him ‘Can I take the intro from the first song and put it on the second song?’

I was trying to be a rapper before I got up in here, so I just told him ‘if you don’t mind if I can say my own thing on there’. He said ‘you can say it?’ I was like ‘yeah’. He goes ‘got a studio right there in the back’, so I hopped on there, I got up on the thing.”

What Is Jacob Fatu Saying At Start Of Entrance Music?

For his WWE theme song, Jacob Fatu can be heard shouting some words. They are not clear, obvious words that the television audience can understand, so Jacob explained what those words meant.

“A lot of people are asking what I’m saying, it’s Tasi, Lua, Tolu, in Samoan it means one, two, three, it’s something Umaga used to say when he was pinning his opponents.

But when I did record it, I didn’t start using that version, and I didn’t wanna ask or anything but when I didn’t hear my version, so I just reached and asked Hunter one day in rehearsals ‘Can we use my version’, and since then I’ve just been locked in with it.”

Jacob Fatu was in action on WWE SmackDown in Phoenix, but unfortunately, he suffered a loss to Trick Williams due to the interference of Drew McIntyre. Even though McIntyre “quit” earlier in the show, he returned for the Fatu-Williams match and cost Fatu the match. McIntyre hit Fatu with a Claymore Kick after the match was over.

It appears likely that Fatu will face McIntyre at WrestleMania 42 on April 18/19 in Las Vegas, but that match is not official yet.