Jacob Fatu

Fatu is the rare wrestler who changes a room the instant he appears. A 185-centimeter Sacramento native billed as the Samoan Werewolf, he debuted in 2012 and ground through independent promotions like GCW and DEFY before arriving on WWE's SmackDown. What I respect is the route: nothing handed to him, every step earned on the indies, and that paid-his-dues credibility reads instantly on screen. He carries the weight of the storied Anoa'i wrestling family, yet his appeal is his own, a big man who moves like a smaller one and hits with genuine menace. I tend to root hard for performers who climbed the unglamorous way, and he did.

Name (English)

Jacob Fatu

Name (Japanese)

ジェイコブ・ファトゥ

Reading

じぇいこぶ・ふぁとぅ

Born

April 18, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

Origin

Sacramento, California, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/SAMOANWEREWOLF
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5

Tags

• California
• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.