{"id":136618,"date":"2025-06-28T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=136618"},"modified":"2025-06-28T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:11:26","slug":"hikuleo-wwe-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/06\/28\/hikuleo-wwe-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikuleo Makes WWE Debut With An Empathic Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The time has finally arrived as Hikuleo hits the scene to make his WWE debut at WWE Night of Champions<\/a>. The Tongan giant was a difference-maker, helping Solo Sikoa secure the United States Championship<\/a> from Jacob Fatu by interfering in their heated title match.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the month, Hikuleo taped a match for WWE Main Event prior to WWE SmackDown against Kit Wilson from Pretty Deadly.<\/p>\n

Hikuleo enters the company as a 6-foot-8, 264-pound behemoth with a bright future. Everyone has already caught a glimpse of what he’s truly capable of being a part of the famous NJPW faction, Bullet Club.<\/p>\n

Plus, Hikuleo has won significant championships in his young career, nabbing the STRONG Openweight Championship, as well as a couple of STRONG Openweight Tag Team Championships and IWGP Tag Team Championships with El Phantasmo in his time with New Japan Pro Wrestling.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen what Hikuleo is really capable of, but considering what he did tonight on WWE Night of Champions, the future looks bright for the budding monster.<\/p>\n

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The time has finally arrived as Hikuleo hits the scene to make his WWE debut at WWE Night of Champions. The Tongan giant was a difference-maker, helping Solo Sikoa secure the United States Championship from Jacob Fatu by interfering in their heated title match. Earlier in the month, Hikuleo taped a match for WWE Main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":137221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,14,2192,4,3],"tags":[4684,3006,8588,8343,8887],"class_list":["post-136618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-njpw","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-hikuleo","tag-jacob-fatu","tag-night-of-champions","tag-solo-sikoa","tag-tonga-loa"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137223,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136618\/revisions\/137223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}