Jacob Fatu’s wrestling career has been centered on family. He has shared locker rooms with at least one family member at nearly every stop on his wrestling journey, especially as a member of the Bloodline during his 15-month WWE tenure.

That’s why Sept. 26 marks such a major milestone for him. That night Fatu’s wife and children will watch him in a WWE ring live for the first time when Smackdown invades the Kia Center for a Friday-night televised event.

Fatu said his children — he has seven, ages 4 to 19 — have only recently become fans of his, though they’ve always followed his cousins like the Usos, Solo Sikoa and Roman Reigns.

“They never used to watch me on the independents,” Fatu told the Sentinel last week. “My 8-year-old, she’d put it on sometimes, but they never watched wrestlin

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