WWE Makes Major Announcement On Roman Reigns’ Immediate Future
Current World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns’ immediate future has been made official by WWE.
Since winning the World Heavyweight title from CM Punk at WrestleMania 42, Roman Reigns has been in a feud with his own Bloodline family member, Jacob Fatu. Jacob also challenged Roman for the World title at Backlash 2026 but failed to emerge victorious. Nevertheless, The Samoan Werewolf has continued to launch brutal assaults on Reigns despite losing to him at Backlash.
Last Monday on RAW, Jacob Fatu challenged Roman Reigns for a Tribal Combat and Roman accepted the challenge. The match has been made official for the World Heavyweight title at the Clash in Italy PLE. Ahead of the major match on May 31st, an important segment has been announced involving both The Samoan Werewolf and The OTC.
During the recent episode of SmackDown, it was made official that Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu are set for a contract signing for their Tribal Combat at Clash in Italy, which will be taking place on RAW this Monday. It was also announced that Oba Femi will kick off the show on Monday.
During tonight's #Smackdown two segments were announced for Monday's #WWERaw.
🔴 Oba Femi Kicks Off RAW
🔴 Roman Reigns/Jacob Fatu Contract Signing pic.twitter.com/fJE74ODK34— PWUnlimited (@PWUnlimited) May 23, 2026
Jacob Fatu on continuously using a sacred move on Roman Reigns
Jacob Fatu brought back the sacred ‘Tongan Death Grip’ move weeks ago and has been using the same on Roman Reigns week after week. Speaking with No-contest Wrestling, Fatu explained how it was his plan to use the sacred move on Roman because he had already been through a lot:
Roman Reigns has been through everything. Roman has been through everything — F5 through 10, man, he’s been through it all. It can’t be just the power. It can’t be just a drop on his head. It needs to be something that’s within the family. Something that’s within the family that could take all of us out. Not just him — it could take all of us out. So you had to bring something so sacred back. I had to. And it was the plan.”
Jacob further added:
Look at the end of the day — the look on his face. Look how it looked every time he’s dropping down to his knees. Imagine everybody else that the great Haku had put this on to where they are no longer here no more. At the end of the day, it’s working. At the end of the day, it’s tapped in. And at the end of the day, it don’t look like Roman can stop it.”
It will be interesting to see what goes down in the contract signing between Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu on RAW.
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