In a recent interview with Joseph Staszewski of The New York Post, WWE SmackDown superstar Solo Sikoa discussed several topics, including whose idea it was for him to use the Samoan Spike on WWE television recently.

“It will definitely be one of my finishers now moving forward. The idea came from Hunter, Hunter pulled me aside, I think it was Paul Heyman’s idea too, so Hunter wanted to run it by me and he goes, I know your uncle was a big part of your guys’ family, I know what he meant to you guys, I wanted to ask you if you would be okay using the spike.

I was like, I don’t know, I kind of wanted to stay away from it, because that’s his thing and he was like, I know he passed away and yesterday was his anniversary, which was a Sunday, and the next day was RAW and he goes, I think it will be cool if you pay a tribute to him on TV by using the spike.

I was like, you know what man, yeah, let’s do it and once he said that, I kind of got emotional, I was like wow. For those who don’t remember who Umaga was, now I’m about to refresh their memory, it was a pretty cool moment for me to pay tribute to him.”

The full interview is available at this link.