What’s Up With Solo Sikoa Not Being Featured At WrestleMania 41? | Question Of The Day

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After Roman Reigns lost the WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania XL, he took off several months, leading to a power vacuum that Solo Sikoa took over. This new incarnation of The Bloodline, wherein Sikoa recruited new members Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, and Jacob Fatu, became the biggest heel faction in the company and took over a good portion of the year, feuding with Cody Rhodes, having a WarGames match against The Original Tribal Chief’s contingent, and culminating with Sikoa losing the ula fala to Reigns on the January 6th premiere of Raw on Netflix.

And then…Sikoa just stopped being useful.

The focus has entirely shifted to Fatu, Loa’s been out of action injured, Tonga is a full-blown side character just utilized in beat downs and to lose to whoever Fatu is feuding with, and Sikoa does random things each week depending on what WWE changes their mind about. Remember when he attacked Cody Rhodes? That went nowhere. All this arguing with Fatu? Well, instead of a match at WrestleMania, Fatu is facing LA Knight, and Sikoa appears to be doing nothing.

My question for you today is “What gives? Why do you think WWE is sidelining Sikoa? Or do you think he’s going to do something in particular at WrestleMania that justifies all of this?”

Remember to answer with your response in the comments below.

As far as my answer…

I wholeheartedly think this is a situation where 75% of the card that they had planned for WrestleMania 41 changed sometime in late October, early November.

Basically, The Rock was supposed to take part, and he would have either fought Roman Reigns or Cody Rhodes. When that wasn’t on the table anymore, WWE took everything, tossed it out, and decided to rush certain things to get to the ending quicker, and have been stuck for the past 4 months not knowing how to balance out the equation. A lot of people have been lost in the shuffle, and I think if WWE were honest about it, they would say that they’ve been booking some of this on the fly week to week, rather than just sitting down before the Royal Rumble, settling on 90% of the card, and booking backwards.

We can see it with a lot of things. You can’t convince me WWE was thinking in August 2024 that the top title match for the Raw women’s division would be Iyo Sky beating Rhea Ripley on Raw to win the title so that Elimination Chamber Bianca Belair could also be part of a three-way built around those two pushing Iyo in the face over and over.

I think WWE was trying to stretch out the Roman Reigns vs. Solo Sikoa story as a backup plan for WrestleMania, but realized there wasn’t enough to keep that going, and had to end it on January 6th. Since then, they’ve just had nothing in mind for Sikoa at all, and it finally reached the point where they ran out of time to figure out a plan.

Now, you’d could just point to the obvious answer and say that they should’ve booked Sikoa vs. Fatu, and that that match would have sufficed as an even more interesting singles feud than Rey Mysterio vs. El Grande Americano or Drew McIntyre vs. Damian Priest, especially if there was a gimmick attached like a Tribal Combat stipulation. That’s what I would have been arguing, saying Fatu could win the United States Championship post-Mania, and LA Knight could’ve been in action against a good number of people (including even being involved in the McIntyre and Priest angle)

At this point, I don’t think Sikoa is doing anything at WrestleMania. He’s just going to be one of the many people that WWE forgot about, which is crazy, because it’s not like he wasn’t a prominent deal for 11 months and treated like the main focal point of SmackDown for the most part. Maybe they saw the rise of Fatu and the struggles that Sikoa is having and figured “He’s proven himself not to be the guy to invest in. Let’s just cut our losses.” That would be brutal, because even though Fatu is more impressive on the mic and in the ring, that doesn’t mean Sikoa not measuring up in comparison means Sikoa’s bad.

I’m worried that the best we can hope for with Sikoa is that he’s either inserted into the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal (if they even have it; they’re running out of time to say so) or that he’s going to accompany Fatu to the ring at WrestleMania alongside Tama Tonga and that’s it. At most, at that point, he’d get involved and influence the outcome, but I don’t think anyone wishes their WrestleMania moment is just to be ringside.

Crazy that this is the third year Sikoa has been around for WrestleMania, and he might again just be accompanying someone else more important to the ring, rather than wrestling a match of his own. The guy can’t even get in a tag team match?! Yikes.

What do you think? Drop your thoughts below!