{"id":24428,"date":"2025-06-29T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24428\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:01:10","slug":"hikuleos-new-wwe-ring-name-revealed-photos-of-blake-monroes-wwe-nxt-in-ring-debut-news-on-smackdown-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/24428\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikuleo&#8217;s New WWE Ring Name Revealed, Photos Of Blake Monroe&#8217;s WWE NXT In-Ring Debut, News On SmackDown &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hikuleo has a new name in WWE.<\/p>\n<p>At WWE Night of Champions 2025, Hikuleo made his official debut, aligning with Solo Sikoa and joining the growing ranks of the New Bloodline alongside his brothers Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, as well as JC Mateo (formerly Jeff Cobb). He played a pivotal role in the event, ambushing Jacob Fatu and setting up Sikoa to land a Samoan Spike and win the WWE United States Championship \u2014 his first title on the main roster.<\/p>\n<p>While commentators Michael Cole and Wade Barrett didn\u2019t mention his name during the broadcast, they did reference his background in Japan. It wasn\u2019t until the post-show that his WWE name was revealed via a lower third graphic during Sikoa\u2019s promo \u2013 <b>\u201cTala Tonga.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLdusrdMyPY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WWE has posted some highlights from Night of Champions 2025, as you can see below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the \u201cTop 10 Moments\u201d from this week\u2019s episode of WWE SmackDown below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And finally, you can check out photos of Blake Monroe (Mariah May in AEW) making her WWE NXT in-ring debut on Friday night below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DLbaA2PsEXn\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hikuleo has a new name in WWE. At WWE Night of Champions 2025, Hikuleo made his official debut,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21962,171,21961,21960,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-24428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-blake-monroe","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hikuleo","11":"tag-smackdown","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114766550526153453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}