JC Mateo and Tonga Loa moved to WWE Alumni in roster shift — Wwe Wrestling
JC Mateo and Tonga Loa were moved to the Alumni section of WWE.com, a clear roster change in wwe wrestling after reports that both performers were leaving the company. The move pulls two active MFT names off WWE’s current listings and puts their status in the same frame as the reported departures of Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods.
WWE.com Removes Mateo, Loa
Fightful reported that Mateo and Loa were also leaving WWE while covering the departures of Kingston and Woods. That report matters because it ties together four names at once, but the immediate roster update is narrower: Mateo and Loa now sit in the Alumni section rather than among WWE’s active performers.
Mateo and Loa had been aligned with Solo Sikoa as part of MFT on SmackDown, alongside Tama Tonga and Talla Tonga. In practical terms, that leaves the group’s recent presentation without two of the wrestlers who were part of its current TV identity.
Jeff Cobb And Tevita Fifita
Jeff Cobb, the real name of JC Mateo, represented Guam in freestyle wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and signed with WWE in 2025. He debuted at Backlash that May and received the JC Mateo ring name the following week on SmackDown, then held the WWE Tag Team Championship with Tama Tonga before losing the titles to Damian Priest and R-Truth on the March 20 episode of SmackDown.
Tevita Fifita, who performs as Tonga Loa, has already had one WWE run end and another begin. He was released in June 2014, returned at Backlash in May 2024, teamed with Tama Tonga for an 84-day run as WWE Tag Team Champions, then lost the titles to the Motor City Machine Guns in October 2024.
Fifita’s return also came after a torn bicep at Survivor Series: WarGames in November 2024, and he came back at Night of Champions in June 2025. That makes the Alumni move especially notable: it follows a stretch in which both wrestlers were still being used in visible tag-team and faction roles, not sitting on the margins.
For readers tracking WWE’s roster churn, the immediate takeaway is simple. Mateo and Loa are no longer listed as active names, and the company’s SmackDown MFT lineup now has to absorb that loss without those two on the board.
