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• Confirmed For Next Week’s Episode Of WWE SmackDown (5/9/2025)
The post Confirmed For Next Week’s Episode Of WWE SmackDown (5/9/2025) first appeared on PWMania - Wrestling News.WWE announced two matches and one segment for next week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown on the USA Network. Jade Cargill will face “The Irresistible Force” Nia Jax in a WWE Women’s Championship #1 Contender’s Match, WWE United States Champion “The Samoan Wer...2025
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• Creator Behind Jacob Fatu’s Samoan Werewolf Mask at WrestleMania 41 Revealed

WrestleMania 41 featured several moments that fans never could have expected and this included Jacob Fatu beating LA Knight to become the United States Champion. Before his match, Fatu was ......2025
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• Jacob Fatu Wins WWE United States Championship At WrestleMania 41 Saturday

“The Samoan Werewolf” has won his first singles title in WWE. In the fourth match of the evening, the third with a title on-the-line, LA Knight defended his WWE United States Championship against Jacob Fatu. After a hard-hitting, back-and-forth battle that saw Fatu make his way to the ring with an epic werewolf mask, while […] The post Jacob Fatu Wins WWE United States Championsh...2025
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• WrestleMania 41 predictions: Night one

Photo by Craig Ambrosio/WWE via Getty Images Here’s how our staff of learned pro wrestling blowhards sees it going down. WrestleMania 41 is taking place this weekend with two separate nights of action, on Sat. Apr. 19 and Sun. Apr. 20, 2025. The show will air live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. It begins at 4:00 pm ET with the Countdown show leading right on into the main cou...2025
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• Cody Rhodes’ stock is down despite winning the WWE title

Photo by WWE/WWE via Getty Images We wrap up our weeklong WrestleMania Stock Report series with a dive into how WWE’s babyface champ has fared since finishing his story last April — along with a lot of Bloodline business. Welcome to the final edition of this year’s WrestleMania Stock Report. This five-part series has looked back at everyone on the WrestleMania 40 card (along with a handful...2025
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• John Cena’s heel turn has cooled off fast

WWE.com John Cena and The Rock’s part-time schedules have led to a disappointing build to the main event of WrestleMania 41 with Cody Rhodes. SmackDown airs tonight (Apr. 18) with a live show emanating from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the final episode of SmackDown during the seven week build towards WrestleMania 41, which takes place on Saturday (Apr. 19) and Sunday (Apr....2025
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• SmackDown live blog: Royal Rumble fallout

Follow along with this week’s episode, featuring the two Royal Rumble winners making decisions on WrestleMania, and more! WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Feb. 7, 2025) with a live show emanating from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring all the continued fallout from the Royal Rumble premium live event that went down just this past weekend in Indi...2025
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• Saturday Night’s Main Event recap & reactions: A star is born

This is the face of a man viewers on NBC and Peacock will not soon forget. | WWE Jacob Fatu left a lasting impact on fans with his brutal dismantling of Braun Strowman. WWE returned to NBC and Peacock this weekend with another nostalgic revival of Saturday Night’s Main Event, live from San Antonio, TX — the hometown of Shawn Michaels. The latest Saturday night offering from the sports ente...2025
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• First place for a first-time champ

Lyra Valkyria’s Instagram Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which...2025
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• We’ll always have AEW ratings to argue over

Barstool Rasslin’ on YouTube Welcome to the weekly Rumor Look Back, where we look at the rumors from six months ago and see which played out as originally stated. Let’s jump right to it. June 22, 2024 According to this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa and Logan Paul vs. LA Knight are both currently planned for SummerSlam on August 3 in Cleveland. WWE also ...2024
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• SmackDown live blog: Survivor Series go home

WWE.com WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Nov. 29, 2024) with a pre-taped show (spoilers here) emanating from the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, featuring all the final push to tomorrow’s Survivor Series premium live event in Vancouver. Advertised for tonight: Paul Heyman Guys Roman Reigns and CM Punk have a sit-down ahead of their team-up tomorr...2024
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• Seth Rollins breaks Jacob Fatu’s heart with Solo Sikoa insult on WWE Raw

WWE Watch this, Cagesiders. You can actually pinpoint the second when Fatu’s heart rips in half. Since coming to WWE this past summer, Jacob Fatu has been nearly indestructible. Even after suffering a foot injury at SummerSlam, that wasn’t enough to keep the Samoan Werewolf down as he plowed through Roman Reigns during a vicious attack on SmackDown weeks later. While it takes a lot to brea...2024
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• WWE Crown Jewel 11/2/2024 (Results)

New Bloodline (“Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu, Solo Sikoa, & Tama Tonga) vs. Original Bloodline (“Main Event” Jey Uso, “Big” Jim Uso, & Roman Reigns) Tama and Jey to start, Tonga quickly gets the better of him and unloads with wild flailing strikes! Into more targeted elbow drops, body blows and hooks, whip to the corner, up and over and Uso cracks a big right hand …...2024
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• Jacob Fatu kicks walking boot to the curb, returns to full strength

It’s good news for the new Bloodline, and very, very, bad news for Roman Reigns. If Roman Reigns was in trouble before, things are about to get even worse for him. Jacob Fatu, the man Solo Sikoa promoted from tag team champion to his personal enforcer, has shed his walking boot. On Tuesday, The Bloodline took part in WWE’s European tour in Oberhausen, Germany, before this Saturday’s Bash at Berlin...2024
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"The live fans completely ate it up and made clear that they want to see the Samoan Werewolf go at it with The Badass, which is a testament to how quickly WWE has turned both of these guys into stars."

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"The death fighter wasn’t afraid of the Samoan Werewolf."

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• SmackDown recap & reactions: I love you, Jacob

WWE.com The new Bloodline is falling apart again, while Elimination Chamber fills out even more. Solo Sikoa laid out Cody Rhodes to end last week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, creating a measure of intrigue for this week’s episode. But the WWE Champion also got some clarity for WrestleMania 41 this week, when Royal Rumble winner Jey Uso chose to challenge GUNTHER for his world heavy...2025
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• Don’t stop believin’

TNAWrestling.com Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up ...2025
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• WWE knows how to create new stars now that Vince McMahon is gone

WWE.com Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report. In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving in the opposite direction. After a busy week that included Cody Rhodes and GUNTHER getting violent after some trash talk, Seth Rollins and Bronson Reed driving Adam Pearce nuts, and Tr...2024
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• The Bloodline explains why they wreaked havoc on NXT

WWE.com The surprise assault by Solo Sikoa’s army sets the stage for a high-stakes episode of SmackDown. The Bloodline paid an unexpected visit to NXT this past Tuesday, leaving chaos in their wake. Represented by Jacob Fatu and the WWE Tag Team Champions Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, the trio interfered in the NXT Tag Team Title match featuring the champions Nathan Frazer and Axiom, and Blood...2024
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• The Inexorable March of Zack Sabre Jr. Will Lead Us All to Happiness

AEW’s YouTube Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our...2024
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• Cody Rhodes’ stock is down despite winning the WWE title
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• A title WWE can’t make Stephanie Vaquer vacate

WWE.com Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our annua...2025
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• No complaints about the booking of these women wrestlers

WWE.com Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our annua...2025
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• Tama Tonga clowns LA Knight ahead of matchup on SmackDown

WWE Tama Tonga gets the last word on “The Megastar” before they meet in Texas. LA Knight and Tama Tonga will square off tonight on SmackDown, live from the Moody Center in Austin, TX. Ahead of their confrontation, Knight did his part to promote the match, only to get clowned by Tonga. On X, Knight wrote, “No more fake Bloodline. No Solo to help you win. Step 1 in getting back to the top st...2025
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• BRONSON SMASH!

@WWE Everybody who comes to Cageside Seats has an opinion about what's going on in pro wrestling — Wrestler Rankings are where YOU let us know YOURS. Cast a vote in the comments. Give us the five performers you think entertained or impressed the most in the last week, and feel free to talk about why. We also have the outcome of last week's voting, the results of which make up our annual c...2024
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• The Inexorable March of Zack Sabre Jr. Will Lead Us All to Happiness
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• Creator Behind Jacob Fatu’s Samoan Werewolf Mask at WrestleMania 41 Revealed
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• Undertaker Believes Jacob Fatu “Hasn’t Scratched The Surface”

Undertaker has high praise for the Samoan Werewolf. Undertaker Speaks Jacob Fatu is relatively new in the WWE. Still within his first full year, Jacob has really impressed fans and has had some great moments on television. But, it seems like he is impressing legends as well. In a new interview with Shakiel Mahjouri, Undertaker […] The post Undertaker Believes Jacob Fatu “Hasn’t ...2025
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• Solo Sikoa Tells Jacob Fatu He Loves Him On WWE SmackDown
Solo Sikoa loves Jacob Fatu. "I LOVE YOU, SOLO." That was the battle cry that made Jacob Fatu popular with the WWE Universe, and those words would charge Jacob to go out and be Sikoa's enforcer in The Bloodline. However, Sikoa took time away after losing to Roman Reigns in Tribal Combat on the January 6 debut of WWE Raw on Netflix. This has changed the dynamic between Fatu and his Tribal Chief. ...2025
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• SmackDown live blog: Royal Rumble fallout
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• Our now weekly praise of Jacob Fatu

WWE.com That and all the other highlights from SmackDown this week right here. This week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown was all about building to the Royal Rumble and preparing Indianapolis for what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest shows of the year. And with that, we got official word that one of the most charismatic guys on the roster will indeed be in the men’s Royal Rumble m...2025
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• MLW Fusion recap: Jacob Fatu fails to dog walk Raven’s crew

Jacob Fatu and the Samoan Swat Team are embroiled in a violent feud with The Calling. The latest chapter of this story took place on episode 179 of MLW Fusion. The main event showdown was between Fatu and Akira. The death fighter wasn’t afraid of the Samoan Werewolf. Akira bled to earn his success. He claimed that Fatu was handed opportunity due to the Samoan family lineage. Hey - @theakiraway,...2023
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• Creator Behind Jacob Fatu’s Samoan Werewolf Mask at WrestleMania 41 Revealed
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• Matt Hardy: If He Can Get Down His Character And Promo Work, I Think Jacob Fatu Can Be A Really Big Deal In WWE
Matt Hardy has high praise for Jacob Fatu. Since arriving to WWE in June 2024, Jacob Fatu has continued to cement himself as a future top star for WWE. In 2025 alone, Fatu has already picked up singles wins over stars like Andrade and Braun Strowman. WrestleMania 41 will be a big proving ground for 'The Samoan Werewolf', as he'll challenge LA Knight for the United States Championship. On the late...2025
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• Jacob Fatu Announced For MLW Battle Riot V
Former MLW Heavyweight Champion Jacob Fatu has been announced as the next competitor for the April 8th Battle Riot V matchup. The Samoan Werewolf will be joining 39 other stars in their attempt to win the annual elimination matchup, which is similar to WWE’s Royal Rumble. Fatu won last year’s Battle Riot, but came up […] The post Jacob Fatu Announced For MLW Battle Riot V appeare...2023
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• Jacob Fatu calls out Minoru Suzuki for a fight in MLW

Dream match alert! Sometimes dream matches materialize out of thin air when I didn’t even know I wanted it. This is such a case. When MLW announced that Minoru Suzuki is coming over from NJPW for the Slaughterhouse event (October 14 in Philadelphia), there was one name that instantly jumped to mind as an opponent. SUZUKI is #Slaughterhouse bound. Philly | Oct 14 | @FITETV https://t.co/qFqQJ...2023
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• Alexander Hammerstone Calls Rematch With Jacob Fatu His Greatest Performance Yet
MLW world champion Alexander Hammerstone says he turned in his greatest performance yet in his massive rematch with Jacob Fatu. The Hammer defeated the Samoan Werewolf a year-and-a-half ago to capture the company’s world title, ending a dominant reign that lasted close to two years. Hammerstone spoke about the rematch, which airs this evening on […] The post Alexander Hammerstone Calls...2023
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• New MLW National Openweight Champion Crowned At Fury Road
Rickey Shane Page is your new MLW National Openweight Champion. Page defeated Jacob Fatu at this evening’s Fury Road premium live event in Philadelphia. This ends the Samoan Werewolf’s reign at 151 days after he dethroned John Henningan. Page is now a double-champion in MLW as he the tag champion with AKIRA. Absolute mayhem ensues […] The post New MLW National Openweight Champion...2023
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• WWE knows how to create new stars now that Vince McMahon is gone
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• Tonga Loa fears Jacob Fatu

WWE Fatu’s impactful debut sent chills through the wrestling world and appeared to frighten his own teammate. For the second week in a row, Tonga Loa’s expression told the entire story. Jacob Fatu made his long-awaited WWE debut this week on SmackDown, rushing to Solo Sikoa’s aid before violently decimating Randy Orton, Kevin Owens, and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. The climax of hi...2024
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• It’s time for Jey Uso to YEET or get off the pot

WWE.com Also, The Bloodline sends a less-than-subtle message to Roman Reigns, plus a look back at WWE’s original Tama. The men in the Samoan dynasty returned to prominence this week on WWE television. On SmackDown, fans learned that MFT apparently stands for RHM. Meanwhile, on Raw, a beloved “Main Event” star revealed his intentions to climb to the top and give back to the WWE Universe lat...2024
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• Raven, Dario Cueto & Contra Unit made surprise returns at MLW SuperFight

MLW’s X SuperFight (Feb. 3, 2024) was a night of surprise returns for MLW. Raven, Cesar Duran (alias Dario Cueto from Lucha Underground), and the Contra Unit all made their presence felt in Philadelphia. Raven previously ushered in the villainous crew known as The Calling. In his absence, the group fell apart. Rickey Shane Page took the reigns, while Akira splintered off as a fan favorite ...2024
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• Report: Jacob Fatu is a free agent

@TheRealRikishi A member of the bloodline could be free to become a member of The Bloodline. Add another huge name to the free agent market. Cassidy Haynes and Bodyslam reported confirmation that Jacob Fatu is officially a free agent from MLW. His contract was rumored to go through 2025, but the Samoan Werewolf is now clear to sign anywhere. Rikishi blatantly hinted as much on social media...2024
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• Cody Rhodes hands Jacob Fatu first singles loss in Raw dark match

WWE on USA The Samoan Werewolf challenged for the Undisputed WWE Championship on Monday in a knock-down street fight against The American Nightmare. On the four-month anniversary of his WWE debut, Jacob Fatu stepped into the ring for his first singles match with the company. In a dark match after Raw, Fatu challenged Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Championship. But like Roman Reigns an...2024
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• Jacob Fatu’s SmackDown Debut: WWE Launches First Merchandise

One big thing: Jacob Fatu joins The Bloodline, gets instant merch push Jacob Fatu made a shocking debut on SmackDown, aligning with The Bloodline and immediately receiving his first WWE merchandise. • Fatu appeared in the closing segment, attacking Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, and Kevin Owens • WWE released a t-shirt featuring Fatu’s “Samoan Werewolf” […] The pos...2024
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• MLW Kings of Colosseum preview: Matt Riddle & Sami Callihan return, more!

MLW’s X Tonight is the night for MLW to unleash the gladiators at Kings of Colosseum on Saturday, January 6 in Philadelphia, PA. The lineup is highlighted by Alex Kane defending the world title, a Taipei Death Match, as well as returns from Matt Riddle and Sami Callihan. Kings of Colosseum goes live for viewing at 8pm ET through the TrillerTV+ subscription (powered by Fite TV). The PPV car...2024
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