For the past few months, Solo Sikoa has made moves to take over The Bloodline in Roman Reigns' absence. He's expelled Jimmy Uso from the group and enlisted Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, and Tanga Loa to back him up.
Paul Heyman has never been happy about that but finally paid the price during last night's episode of SmackDown.
The show opened with Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, and Kevin Owens attacking The Bloodline. The latter put Tonga through a table in the crowd with a senton atomico, leaving the heels with no choice but to flee.
The American Nightmare made it clear that they'll take the group down at Money in the Bank shortly after the trio had sent Nick Aldis' security team packing. However, when New York City cops hit the ring, they were left with no other choice than to leave the building.
Later in the night, Sikoa assured Heyman that he'd listened to his Wiseman and not brought the dangerous Fatu to SmackDown. Despite that, his acknowledgement ceremony saw WWE's latest Samoan signee make his way to the ring, proving Solo had lied.
He, Tonga, and Loa all acknowledged their new Tribal Chief, but when it was Heyman's turn...he refused! Loyal to Roman Reigns, the WWE Hall of Famer was put down with a Somoan Spike and headbutt before the foursome sent him crashing through the announcer's table.
This surely has to be setting the stage for Reigns to return. Where things go from there remains to be seen, though.
Check out some highlights from SmackDown below.
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