{"id":678708,"date":"2026-05-19T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:16:08","slug":"wwe-almost-fires-jacob-fatu-instead-books-him-in-tribal-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/678708\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE almost fires Jacob Fatu, instead books him in Tribal Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Raw GM Adam Pearce was dead set on firing Jacob Fatu at the start of tonight\u2019s (May 18) episode of Raw, and he let Roman Reigns know as much when the OTC arrived at the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before that could happen, though, Jacob Fatu stormed down to the ring and dared the world champion to come out and fight him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Usos hit the ring first. Jimmy couldn\u2019t talk any sense into Fatu about saving his job by acknowledging Roman as his Tribal Chief. Jey tried a very different approach by blasting Fatu with a steel chair. The Samoan Werewolf proceeded to no-sell the blow and destroy the Usos all by himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That brought out the OTC, whose Superman Punch was countered by the Tongan Death Grip. The Usos were back in the fight at that point, and it took all three members of The Bloodline to finally put Jacob down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Roman gave the nod of approval for Adam Pearce to fire Fatu at that point. That\u2019s when Jacob got on the mic and issued a challenge to Reigns for Tribal Combat. Roman accepted, and the WWE commentators talked as if the match will go down on May 31 at Clash In Italy. So it appears that Jacob Fatu did find a way to save his job, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The last time we saw Tribal Combat was on Raw\u2019s Netflix debut when Roman Reigns beat Solo Sikoa, won back the Ula Fala, and was embraced by The Rock. Will Roman dominate Tribal Combat again in Italy, or is Jacob Fatu about to turn WWE upside down by becoming the new Tribal Chief? Either way, a match of this magnitude is sure to be the main event of the PLE over WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. GUNTHER.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let me know your thoughts on this angle and match in the comments below, Cagesiders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Catch up on all the results from Raw in our live blog right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/442629\/wwe-raw-results-live-discussion-may-18-2026-judgment-days-tag-challenge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raw GM Adam Pearce was dead set on firing Jacob Fatu at the start of tonight\u2019s (May 18)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,13015,30284],"class_list":["post-678708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-raw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}