Rikishi gives his thoughts on the Tribal Combat Match between Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa and the aftermath with The Rock and the Ula Fala.
Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa will forever be able to say that they had the first match broadcast live on Netflix in WWE history. Tribal Combat took place between "The OTC" and the former NXT North American Champion and it was a wild affair featuring interferences from Sami Zayn, Jimmy Uso, Jacob Fatu, Cody Rhodes, Tama Tonga, and Kevin Owens. In the end, Roman came out on top.
However, when it was time for Paul Heyman to bestow the Ula Fala onto his preferred "Tribal Chief," The Rock came to the ring and did the honors himself, embracing Roman and a moment of love and respect.
Rikishi, Roman Reigns' cousin and Solo Sikoa's father commented on that portion of the Monday Night Raw debut on Netflix during the most recent episode of his Off The Top podcast. First and foremost, Rikishi was, of course, beaming with pride at the growth and success of his bloodline.
Like many fans watching the show, he also felt that this would have been the perfect moment to turn The Rock heel on Roman Reigns as there was no better time with the whole world watching this major show. Still, Rikishi believes that they could have planted yet another seed for a future match between The Rock and Roman Reigns.
"Just because I'm one of the boys, like, 'Okay, where do we go with this,' right? I'm thinking, like, Man, this is, is something going to happen here or as always, like, maybe not yet. We're just going to plant the seed. That's the way I seen it. It was a good way of The Rock validating, somewhat like passing the torch over to [Roman] because they kept mentioning The Rock's name on TV, his Matai name, okay, his Matai Name is Seiuli. So, for Seiuli, The Rock, to be able to actually -- we've seen that before. When the Ula Fala was first introduced into the world of professional wrestling, or we've seen Roman's father, Uncle Sika give Roman the blessings of the Ula Fala. So when I seen that happen on Monday Night Raw, it was like a beautiful thing, man, but it also like, boy, if I wanted to turn heel, if Rock wanted to turn heel, what a perfect time to do it."
Rikishi would go on to say that he was also expecting The Rock to get physical to some degree. If not with Roman, then with a heel who could have taken a Rock Bottom or People's Elbow. But instead, it was all island love.
Roman Reigns fielded even more questions about a potential match against The Rock following WWE Raw on Netflix. Read his response here.
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