{"id":810972,"date":"2026-08-12T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810972\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:24:09","slug":"zilla-fatu-debuts-for-wwe-in-nxt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810972\/","title":{"rendered":"Zilla Fatu debuts for WWE in NXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rumors of WWE interest in Zilla Fatu have stretched back for months now, and word was getting around earlier today (Tues., Aug. 11, 2026) that he was at the Performance Center and had officially signed a contract with the company. Those rumors were clearly true, considering he crashed the party in the main event of this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/467875\/wwe-nxt-results-live-discussion-aug-11-2026-montana-and-waller-clash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">episode<\/a> of NXT television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Grayson Waller and Cruz Montana were trying to figure out who would earn an NXT championship match against Tony D\u2019Angelo at Heatwave when Fatu came out of nowhere:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fatu has roots in Booker T\u2019s Reality of Wrestling but did work in GCW and House of Glory, among other independent promotions. He is the son of the late Umaga, and is just 26-years-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Samoan Dynasty continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As for the match he interrupted, it was apparently thrown out. He attacked Montana first, leading to the bell, but he also put the boots to Waller and commentary simply wondered what General Manager Robert Stone would do about all this. Fatu told D\u2019Angelo, who was ringside, that he\u2019s the new sheriff in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With no winner, it was left unclear who would face D\u2019Angelo at Heatwave. A Fatal 4-Way seems like the obvious choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Either way, another Fatu has arrived in WWE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors of WWE interest in Zilla Fatu have stretched back for months now, and word was getting around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,4366,94185],"class_list":["post-810972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-nxt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}