Talla Tonga said his father’s WWE return was a company idea that reached the family through Tama Tonga, and that it was originally set for a week before it happened.
Haku aligned with his sons on the July 31 SmackDown, the go-home show before SummerSlam. Talla said the first target was July 24.
“It came through Tama first. They had the idea, passed it onto Tama and then passed it on to me. I want to say around SummerSlam, that’s when it became solidified. That’s when my dad started calling like, ‘Hey, I just got hit up, I got a flight coming out.’ I was like, ‘Oh, shoot, so it’s serious then,'” Tonga said on Cheap Heat Radio.
“There had been spread of it before, maybe a week or two after we split from Solo there was probably word of it. But, you know how it is, you hear a word and you don’t really trust it, you just go week by week. You see what happens week by week.”
Haku’s arrival came with a renewed push for The M.F.T.s. Tama and Talla won the WWE Tag Team Championships in a triple threat with Damian Priest and R-Truth and The War Raiders on the August 14 SmackDown, and retained against Priest and R-Truth on August 21.
