WWE Babyface Could Turn Heel After Being Exposed As Jacob Fatu’s Attacker
Jacob Fatu was attacked on SmackDown last week.
On the October 17 edition of Friday Night SmackDown, WWE had booked Fatu in a one-on-one match against Drew McIntyre to determine the number one contender for Cody Rhodes’ WWE Undisputed Championship.
However, before the match even started, Fatu was attacked backstage by a mystery assailant, who left him broken and bloodied on the floor. Fatu has been sidelined since the attack last week. In real life, he is set to undergo some dental work, but it’s being said that he’ll be back soon.
On his Notsam Wrestling podcast, Sam Roberts predicted that when Fatu returns, he’ll return as a babyface. If that happens, the SmackDown roster will have an excess of babyfaces. To combat the issue, Roberts believes WWE should turn Damian Priest into a heel.
“Damian Priest may be better off as a heel, and maybe this is the way you turn him. Maybe you wait a couple months, Damian Priest still stays a babyface for a while, but you know, if you realize that there are enough baby faces at the top of that card, then you go, “Okay, let’s try let’s turn Damian Priest again. Let’s have him be a heel.”
Roberts stated that a good way to paint Priest as a heel would be to reveal him as Fatu’s mystery attacker on SmackDown.
“And how do you do that? Well, he’s the one who busted Jacob Fatu’s teeth out of his mouth because Jacob Fatu was getting too much.” (From 28:38)
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When Will Jacob Fatu Return?
Bryan Alvarez reported on Wrestling Observer Live that Jacob Fatu will be away from wrestling until late November’s Survivor Series.
They did an angle to get him out of the match. He was laying in a pool of his own blood and teeth — there were teeth all over the place. He needs some sort of surgery, something involving his teeth. He will be back by Survivor Series weekend. So he’s gonna be out for a while.
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