Earlier this month, former NJPW star Jeff Cobb made his much-awaited WWE debut.
Throughout america Championship match between LA Knight and Jacob Fatu at Backlash 2025, Solo Sikoa appeared on the ringside together with his newly acquired backup. Former NJPW star Jeff Cobb made his stunning debut and helped Fatu take down Knight.
Quickly sufficient, on the next week’s episode of SmackDown, Cobb, now often known as JC Mateo, defeated LA Knight in a 15-minute-long match. In lower than a month of his debut, Mateo just lately appeared in an interview with KUAM Information, and opened up on his electrifying debut.
“I didn’t come up by way of the WWE system. I made a reputation for myself outdoors of WWE. So, it’s at all times scary once you’re gonna debut on WWE and also you’re type of like, ‘Oh man, I hope the folks know who I’m.’“
He additional shared how the response he obtained from the St.Louis crowd stunned him.
“Listening to that response firsthand was like, very—thank goodness their digicam didn’t zoom in on my arms however the goosebumps, it was there for positive.”
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A former IWGP Tag Group Champion, followers now await to see what WWE has deliberate for Mateo, and if he might emerge as Jacob Fatu’s alternative in The Bloodline.
Jacob Fatu Feedback On JC Mateo’s WWE Debut
On the Backlash Recap Present, Jacob Fatu shared his ideas on Jeff Cobb, aka JC Mateo’s WWE debut, and his allegiance with the New Bloodline. Calling the complete state of affairs “upsetting”, he stated,
“Man, I’m gonna preserve it 100, I don’t even need to converse on that. I don’t need to converse on none of that. I don’t need to converse on the final couple of seconds as a result of actually, I might inform you I don’t know. I respect you having me, however I don’t need to converse on none of that. I can’t inform you if I don’t know something. If I don’t know why, I can’t converse on it.”The entire world noticed the look on my face.”
I ain’t annoyed about it, however I simply can’t converse on it. I can’t inform you nothing about it as a result of it’s type of — it’s just a bit completely different. Clearly, I nonetheless really feel like they higher get in the place they slot in on the finish of the day. I can’t name it. Everyone simply gonna have to remain tuned and see what’s poppin trigger for one thing like that to pop up out of nowhere to me, to Jacob, who’s been nothing however loyal. Slowly upsetting. Total, I don’t need to discuss it although. Like I stated, they higher get in the place they slot in on the finish of the day. That’s it, man.”
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