Jacob Fatu almost had a different name in WWE.
In-ring names can be a bit tricky when established wrestlers from other major promotions sign with WWE. Not everyone gets to keep their names, and several superstars had to undergo name changes when they debuted. Jacob Fatu almost became one of them.
During his recent interview with IGN to promote WWE 2K26, Jacob Fatu revealed that the company initially planned to name him Caesar Sikoa. The company filed to trademark the name on June 19, 2024, and Fatu made his televised debut on June 21.
“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 spoke about his WWE theme music
Speaking further, Jacob Fatu explained the development of his WWE theme music.
“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,” Jacob Fatu continued. “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.
Jacob Fatu also revealed what he says at the start of his music
“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 said. [H/T TJRWrestling]
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