Solo Sikoa Says Rikishi Threatened Him With Stink Face To Keep His Grades Up

Solo Sikoa was threatened with the Stink Face as a child by his father, Rikishi.

Before he was Rikishi, Fatu wanted to make a difference and inspire all of the children. As it turns out, he would make the most significant difference later in his career by shaking his ass in other wrestlers’ faces for a move called the Stink Face. As for inspiring the children, his twin sons, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso, admitted during their speech at Rikishi’s WWE Hall of Fame induction that it was the Stink Face that made their family the most money. Now, his other son, Solo Sikoa, is admitting that he would be threatened with the maneuver if he got bad grades.

Speaking with Adrian Hernandez during a media scrum prior to WWE SummerSlam 2025, Sikoa joked that his dad would say that if he didn’t do well in school, he would be seeing his rear end when he came back home.

“Yeah, he did. He said, ‘If you don’t get good grades, you’ll be seeing my rear end when you get home.’ So I got, like, B’s and C’s. I mean, I didn’t get A’s, but B’s and C’s are good enough.”

Learn more about some of the ribs that were played through Rikishi and the Stink Face here.

Solo Sikoa will be facing another Fatu, Jacob Fatu, inside a steel cage at WWE SummerSlam 2025. Fightful will have full coverage of SummerSlam as it airs. The show will begin at 6 p.m. EST on both Saturday and Sunday.

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