{"id":139458,"date":"2025-08-01T19:42:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=139458"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:45:34","slug":"new-star-officially-makes-tv-in-ring-wwe-smackdown-debut-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/08\/01\/new-star-officially-makes-tv-in-ring-wwe-smackdown-debut-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Officially Makes TV In-Ring WWE SmackDown Debut Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWE SmackDown tonight<\/a> will feature the official in-ring debut of one of Solo Sikoa’s MFTs in the form of Talla Tonga. That’s right, Talla Tonga. You may be wondering, “Hasn’t Talla Tonga competed in WWE already?” You would be correct. However, both have been dark matches. One is on WWE Main Event, facing Pretty Deadly’s Kit Wilson, and the other is on SmackDown, against a local talent.<\/p>\n

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Tonight marks the first official televised match of the former Hikuleo. His opponent? Jimmy Uso. These two have had issues for the past few months, with Jimmy assisting in the war between Jacob Fatu and Solo Sikoa, and the MFTs. This Friday, the gloves are off as Jimmy Uso looks to silence Talla Tonga once and for all.<\/p>\n

Of course, that won’t be easy. At 6’8, 264 pounds, no man can say that Talla Tonga will be “light work.” This mastodon of a man has shown everyone how dominant he could be, and the WWE Universe will finally get a glimpse of it in an official capacity. That said, Jimmy Uso is a seasoned veteran and a future WWE Hall of Famer, and if anyone can defeat the big Tongan, it’s going to be him.<\/p>\n

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WWE SmackDown tonight will feature the official in-ring debut of one of Solo Sikoa’s MFTs in the form of Talla Tonga. That’s right, Talla Tonga. You may be wondering, “Hasn’t Talla Tonga competed in WWE already?” You would be correct. However, both have been dark matches. One is on WWE Main Event, facing Pretty Deadly’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":139459,"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":[12,2192,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458","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=139458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139460,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139458\/revisions\/139460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}