Talla Tonga Says Haku Was Originally Supposed To Return On 7/24 WWE SmackDown
Talla Tonga discusses the return of Haku.
Over on SmackDown, the duo of Talla Tonga and Tama Tonga are now managed by their father, Haku. The legend made his surprise return to the company on the July 31 episode of WWE SmackDown.
In a new interview with Cheap Heat Radio, Talla recalled learning about the return plans for his father.
“It came through Tama first. They had the idea, passed it onto Tama and then passed it on to me. I want to say around SummerSlam, that’s when it became solidified. That’s when my dad started calling like, ‘Hey, I just got hit up, I got a flight coming out.’ I was like, ‘Oh, shoot, so it’s serious then.’ It was around that time. There had been spread of it before, maybe a week or two after we split from Solo there was probably word of it. But, you know how it is, you hear a word and you don’t really trust it, you just go week by week. You see what happens week by week.
Talla Tonga went on to reveal that Haku was originally supposed to debut on the July 24 episode of SmackDown, which took place in the San Francisco area.
“Even then, we were in San Francisco [Oakland] and he was supposed to debut then. Then they pushed it back to the week of SummerSlam. So he was with us for two weeks, those first two weeks before SummerSlam. You know how it is, everything comes last minute and you just got with it.”
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