WWE Star Jacob Fatu Makes Big Confession: “I Would Have Let Him Win”

Jacob Fatu is known as a tough guy in WWE, but he admits he’d let a wrestling legend beat him if they had a match.

The former WWE United States Champion, Jacob Fatu, is on a roll. After picking up a big win over Drew McIntyre in an Unsanctioned Match at WrestleMania 42, Fatu has targeted his cousin, Roman Reigns, as his next opponent since Reigns is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

As far as dream matches go, Fatu was asked by GiveMeSport about facing the late, great New Jack of ECW fame in a dream match. Fatu responded by noting he was an ECW fan growing up and he liked New Jack a lot, so he’d let New Jack win if they had a match.

“I would have let him win. I just would have let him win. I would have said, ‘fuck it, put the fork away, dude.’ I would have seen him playing the guitar. ‘Put the guitar away.’ I would have seen him vacuuming. ‘Put the vacuum away.’ Now, overall, though, that’s crazy you brought that up.

New Jack was one of my favorite all time, man. Like, man, we used to put ketchup on our head and walk into the living room with our old school toy bucket, yo, ECW, and my mom used to whip our ass because we used all that ketchup, fake bleeding. But, nah, man, that’s a dope match, and, man, it would have been so dope if that was able to happen.” (H/T Fightful)

Jacob Fatu Was Going To Have A Different Name In WWE

When Jacob Fatu signed with WWE in April 2024, he was already well known in the wrestling world for being a World Champion in MLW. The 34-year-old father of 7 has a checkered past, but WWE knew he was talented, so they signed him, and he’s been incredible in the two years since then.

The signing of a new WWE wrestler usually means a new name for that person, but surprisingly, WWE let Jacob Fatu keep his real name, even though he says they had something else in mind.

“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’.

As for his WWE theme song, Fatu explained how that came to be as well.

“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.

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.”

Roman Reigns is on the poster for WWE Backlash on May 9th, and he’s likely going to face Jacob Fatu at that event, but the match isn’t official yet.