Jacob Fatu’s “Samoan Werewolf” nickname appears like one thing cooked up in a wrestling locker room, however the true inspiration got here straight from Twilight.
Throughout an look on Stephanie McMahon’s What’s Your Story? podcast, Fatu defined that the gimmick goes all the best way again to when he was first breaking into wrestling. On the time, he was working alongside Gangrel, whose vampire character instantly acquired Fatu fascinated about the plain rival creature.
“It began from the film Twilight. It actually did. Once I first acquired into wrestling, my uncle Rikishi, we had been doing this NFL/NBA completely different groups from completely different cities.”
Fatu additionally made positive to credit score the individuals who helped prepare him. Whereas Rikishi and different members of his household performed a significant function, he stated Gangrel was additionally closely concerned in serving to him study the enterprise. That’s the place Twilight entered the image. Gangrel was the vampire, so Fatu figured any individual wanted to be the werewolf.
“Once I first got here in — I gotta be very clear — I used to be educated by my uncles and my father as nicely, however Gangrel had loads to do with my coaching.”
“We had been on the identical crew. He was a vampire. Twilight, vampires — wants a werewolf.”
The connection acquired even funnier as a result of Twilight’s werewolf character was named Jacob. Fatu joked that there was one main distinction between himself and Taylor Lautner’s character on the time.
“The man’s identify was Jacob, however I instructed my spouse, I used to be like, ‘His physique appears to be like method higher than my physique.’ Shoutout to Jacob on Twilight. That’s how Samoan Werewolf took place.”
The nickname caught, and years later “The Samoan Werewolf” has turn out to be one of many greatest components of Fatu’s identification contained in the ring. It seems followers can thank Gangrel, a vampire gimmick and Twilight for placing the entire thing collectively.
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