Jacob Fatu officially fell in line following his loss to World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns at Clash in Italy, and he acknowledged his cousin as his Tribal Chief during a ceremony to open “WWE Raw” on Monday. WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray previously said on “Busted Open Radio” that commentary’s line about Reigns “neutering” the “Samoan Werewolf” following Fatu’s loss was significant, and the way co-host Dave LaGreca thought it might come back into play on Monday, which ended up not being the case.
“Within the package last night that they played, they removed the road about Jacob being neutered,” Bully Ray said. “They left within the line about Jacob being domesticated. So, if you’re domesticated, which means you are trained. You are now in line, and that is what we saw from Jacob Fatu last night. Jacob Fatu fell in line. He didn’t fall perfectly in line, because he had some words for Jey Uso… but at the top of the day, that is what he did.”
Bully Ray said that he kept attempting to give you one other story beat when Fatu was kneeling to Reigns, like perhaps he’s a mole throughout the Bloodline with Solo Sikoa possibly getting in his ear. Then, Sikoa was brutalized by Oba Femi within the King of the Ring tournament on “Raw,” and Bully Ray said he realized that is not prone to occur, despite Sikoa and the MFTs appearing ringside following Fatu’s Clash in Italy loss.
What’s next for Fatu?
Bully Ray said there was one small story beat that WWE did miss on Monday that would have built some more tension throughout the acknowledgment ceremony segment. He said it was when Reigns and the Usos were lined up within the ring and put their ones within the air, with Fatu positioned behind them.
“There was a lull within the audience,” he said. “Should you return and listen, there is a lull, almost like everybody was holding their breath because they thought something was going to occur. Then, Jacob eventually raises up the one. I’d take Jacob and I’d have put him right behind Roman Reigns. I’d have had that arduous camera shoot Roman with Jacob’s face right over one among Roman Reigns’ shoulders, delaying the one within the air, construct that up somewhat construct, boom, after which hit the one.”
As for Fatu’s ongoing tension with Jey Uso, Bully Ray is not sure if that is going to evolve into something further within the Bloodline storyline, a minimum of at this moment. Uso is within the King of the Ring tournament, and Fatu is now just left at Reigns’ side.
“It almost looked just like the Jacob experiment has come to an end,” he said. “He’s now a co-star within the Bloodline. We’ll see what happens. Remember, just a few months ago, there was all this discussion about whether Jacob Fatu might be the face of the place and the World Heavyweight Champion. Quite a lot of people said, ‘yes.’ I said, ‘no.’ Jacob Fatu won’t ever be what Roman Reigns is. Where he matches into this story moving forward, that is still to be seen.”
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