Solo Sikoa debuted at WWE Clash At The Castle and was immediately thrust into a major position.
Solo made an immediate impact on the main roster when he helped Roman Reigns retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship against Drew McIntyre at the event.
Speaking to Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Heat, Sikoa reflected on his trip to Cardiff.
“Going to Cardiff, that was my first time meeting him,” he was when asked about working with Triple H. “At the time, he was down at NXT and when he signs new people to NXT, he’ll take a picture with them. A week before, we were getting ready to take a picture and he had some differences and something had happened. [Cardiff] was my first time meeting him. He brought him into his office and was like, ‘Hey man, welcome to Cardiff. You know this is your call up, right?’ I was like, ‘Nah, I didn’t.’ ‘Yeah, this is your call up to SmackDown. Welcome. You know what you’re doing today?’ ‘Nah, man, I don’t.’ [laughs]. ‘Okay, we’ll go over it with Roman.’ He’ll talk to me every time after the match and give me advice. I’m really happy I got the chance to meet him.”
He just said, ‘Be there. Be there on the timing. If you don’t do this tonight, in the match, it’s not going to work.’ Nobody noticed that I was there in Cardiff. None of the boys noticed. Only certain people. Nobody saw me go out there under the ring. Everybody first saw me when I first came back after the spot. I remember that day, we were sitting in the locker room, quiet, I was watching him get ready for the match. I didn’t want to say anything because he was in his zone, I was in my zone, I know what I needed to do, he knew what he needed to do. ‘I just need you to be here. I need you to execute this at this time,’ and I did. It blew the roof off the place.”
Solo Sikoa to Cheap Heat
Sikoa is currently part of The Bloodline’s tension as Jey Uso and Sami Zayn continue to be at each other’s throats.
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