Real Reason For Jacob Fatu’s WWE Absence
Jacob Fatu took himself out of the game after an attack on Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam but is Fatu’s apparent injury all part of WWE’s plan?
The main event of SummerSlam saw Cody Rhodes retain his Undisputed WWE Championship against Solo Sikoa but that was only part of the story. The ‘Bloodline Rules’ bout saw plenty of interference with Kevin Owens and Randy Orton seeing off Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa but Jacob Fatu could have proved decisive.
Fatu splashed Rhodes through the commentary table and appeared to injure his leg afterwards which stopped him from getting involved when Roman Reigns returned to wipe out Solo Sikoa and allow Rhodes to win the bout.
Jacob Fatu was missing from the 9th of August edition of SmackDown but there is still some debate on if the reigning WWE Tag Team Champion is badly injured or if his absence is all part of WWE’s plan.
Jacob Fatu Kept Away From Roman Reigns
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE wants to keep Jacob Fatu as far away from Roman Reigns as possible to help preserve Fatu’s aura for the time being:
The deal is they’re trying to have Jacob Fatu completely avoid Roman Reigns because everyone has to sell for Roman Reigns and they want to keep Jacob Fatu special.
So, he’s going to be gone while Roman Reigns is around until whenever the time is right to hook them up. I can’t say he’s not hurt but everything that’s happening was planned to happen, I can say that.
As far as avoiding those two locking up for now until later when they obviously will lock up. I think they want Roman with Solo first then Jacob Fatu after that.
As far as the WWE Tag Team Championship is concerned it was also noted that Solo Sikoa will decide which members of The Bloodline will defend it at any given time in a slightly different take on the Freebird rule.