Jacob Fatu recalls the moment he made his mind up and decided to become a professional wrestler.
Jacob Fatu is one of the top wrestlers in MLW and he is also a representative of the Samoan Dynasty. The son of the Tonga Kid, Sam Fatu, Jacob now runs roughshod over the Major League locker room but he says, it was never his dream to be a wrestler.
Revealing in a new all-access interview on the MLW YouTube channel, Jacob Fatu says it wasn't until he was in jail and came across his cousins, Jimmy and Jey Uso, on television that he decided to give wrestling a chance.
"I really didn't grow up wanting to wrestle. I didn't want to wrestle at all until the day I caught my case for the 211 when I was 18. I was locked down, went to jail for some crazy reason. Every dorm has a TV. It's just so happened to be flipping through the channels right? Who comes on my brothers, The Usos, man Jimmy and Jey coming on and I will never forget it. They came out with Tamina [Snuka] and they was wrestling against Tyson Kidd, another former MLW Superstar Davey Boy Smith, and Natalya. Man, when I was 18, locked down in Sacramento County Jail. I was flipping through the channels and I seen my brothers and them. I think that's kind of like where I made my mind up."
Jacob also shared a story about how he learned to do his backflips while visiting Rikishi and The Usos during the summer as a child.
“Funny story was I used to go to my uncle Rikishi’s house every summer and back there they would have a wrestling ring set up. We had a trampoline so we'd move the trampoline in front of the wrestling ring and then right between the swimming pool and the wrestling ring. So the trampoline will be right there,” he recalled. “That's actually where I learned how to do my backflips was at my uncle Rikishi's house. From the wrestling ring, go dive out, bounce onto the trampoline into the pool.”
Jacob is now free of CONTRA and making his own path in MLW. We have live coverage of MLW programming every week in our results section.
In a recent interview, Jacob spoke about his cousin Roman Reigns and how he feels about what Roman Reigns has done for the family legacy. Learn more here.
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