Original Plans For JC Mateo When He First Made WWE Debut

Dave Meltzer has revealed that JC Mateo, the WWE title utilized by Jeff Cobb, was initially deliberate for a big singles push when he joined WWE earlier than these plans have been deserted and he was decreased to a background function inside The MFTs.

In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Meltzer wrote: “Cobb was at first planned for a big push as he was to work with key people in singles in plans that never ended up happening. For whatever reason, after seeing him, he became a face in the crowd of the MFTs, a group built around Sikoa, and with Tama Tonga getting the screen time and Talla Tonga as the monster.”

He arrived with star energy, having been one of the vital adorned performers on the impartial circuit and in NJPW, the place he was a former NEVER Openweight Champion and ROH World Champion. The expectation heading into his WWE signing was that his mixture of dimension, athleticism, and ring work would earn him a notable function.

Instead, after preliminary plans for singles packages with key roster members fell by means of for undisclosed causes, Cobb discovered himself as one in all a number of supporting members in The MFTs faction alongside Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, and Talla Tonga.

With Tama Tonga receiving the majority of the display screen time and Talla positioned because the faction’s monster, Cobb was largely invisible on tv and barely featured in significant storylines earlier than being among the many expertise launched in WWE’s post-WrestleMania 42 roster cuts on April 24.