Rikishi shares his thoughts on Zilla Fatu.
Zilla Fatu, the son of Umaga, has been linked to WWE since he entered the wrestling business, as he is a member of the real-life Bloodline. While the Bloodline story has continued to evolve on WWE programming, Zatu has been competing on the independent scene; he has wrestled for GCW and HOG, among other promotions. He has also returned to Booker T's Reality of Wrestling.
Speaking on his Off The Top podcast, Rikishi was asked to share his thoughts on whether Zilla Fatu was ready to join WWE.
“As an uncle, I think there’s a lot more potential that Zilla has to bring to the table for himself. The kid, I don’t think he’s reached his best potential yet, hasn’t found his extra talent that he can bring to the ring. The only way to find that is to stay consistent out there on the independent circuit. You gotta keep doing it. You don’t learn this stuff overnight. While he’s out there, he’s staying busy. We’ll see though, I’ll see the growth of Zilla. He texts me, we keep in touch and so forth, and I only give my advice when asked. I like to let the boys kind of find themselves and find out for themself. They’re grown young adults, they’re not kids. So he’ll be able to find it, and I think he’s got a lot more to find about himself in the squared circle. He’s charismatic, he’s in good shape, and so we’ll see. You can’t be good in the ring and not be just as good outside the ring. So you gotta be able to control both of those and have hands on it. I don’t know who surrounds my nephew when he’s on his own on the independent circuit, but that can play another factor too. Hopefully he stays consistent at Booker’s school [Reality of Wrestling]. If you don’t learn anything from Booker, then you’re not listening. So let’s see. Let’s pray that Zilla gets it and he understands his purpose. When I [saw] him last, I told him that this wrestling thing is bigger than you, it’s bigger than me. It’s what you do with the platform while you’re in this game. So we’ll see," Rikishi said.
Zilla Fatu recently said that he was destined to be in WWE. Check out his comments here.
Booker T has said that he's going to try to help Zilla Fatu get to WWE. Click here to see what he had to say.
Click here to see what Zilla Fatu had to say about potentially facing John Cena.
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