Solo Sikoa’s music hits and out comes Solo with Jimmy Uso. Aldis and Pearce leave the ring. Jimmy gets in the ring and Orton stomps on him. Solo gets in the ring and Orton with right hands. Jimmy gets to his feet and attacks Orton and both men double team Orton. LA Knight’s music hits and out comes LA Knight to the ring. LA Knight with right hands onto Jimmy and kicks onto Solo. He throws Solo to the outside but Solo grabs LA Knight to the outside. LA Knight with a right hand and he throws him into the barricade. Orton grabs Jimmy and throws him ont othe ring apron. Orton places him on the second rope and hits him with a DDT. Orton hits Jimmy with the RKO and he looks at Heyman. Orton looks at Pearce and Aldis. He grabs both contracts and looks at them.

“Main Event” Jey Uso makes his way to the ring for the save. Jey ducks a clothesline and punches away at McIntyre. Jey superkicks McIntyre. Rollins and Jey then hit McIntyre with stereo superkicks to knock him out of the ring. Jey picks up the World Heavyweight Championship and hands it to Rollins. Jey celebrates big time with the crowd. A bleeding and furious McIntyre watches on.

Next week on Raw, Seth “Freakin” Rollins will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against “Main Event” Jey Uso. Drew McIntyre will also face Sami Zayn.

Backstage Segment

Randy Orton is warming up when “Main Event” Jey Uso walks up to him. Jey Uso says he wanted to find Orton before Orton found him. Jey apologizes for what happened back in the day. Cody Rhodes gave him a second chance and hopes they can leave the past in the past. Orton says he’s seen how Jey Uso has had Cody’s back. A lot of people trust him. Orton will let bygones be bygones, but he will handle some unfinished business with the Bloodline. As long as Jey Uso is out of the Bloodline, they’re good. Jey says he’s out. They shake hands.

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Elsewhere backstage, Sami Zayn catches up with “Main Event” Jey Uso. Zayn says Randy Orton hasn’t shown up yet. Jey reminds him that they took him out with the injury over a year ago. It’s no surprise he hasn’t shown up yet. They worry he might now make it. The crowd chants “CM Punk” during this.

World Heavyweight Champion Seth “Freakin” Rollins is in his locker room. “Main Event” Jey Uso and Sami Zayn walk in and say Randy Orton hasn’t shown up yet. “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes walks in and says he will show up. Rhodes asks them to trust him.

Men’s WarGames Match

Drew McIntyre and The Judgment Day (Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions Finn Bálor and Damian Priest, NXT North American Champion “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, and JD McDonagh) vs. “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, “Main Event” Jey Uso, Sami Zayn, World Heavyweight Champion Seth “Freakin” Rollins, and Randy Orton
The match will start with Finn Bálor vs. Seth “Freakin” Rollins.

Damian Priest, “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh, Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, and Sami Zayn are in the cages for now. Randy Orton still has not appeared.

Rollins gets in the ring, hits the ropes, and dives into the second ring to attack Bálor, who was standing there. Rollins punches away at him. Bálor cuts him off and goes to send him into the cage wall, but Rollins cuts him off. Rollins sends Bálor twice into the cage wall. A loud “CM Punk” chant picks up. Rollins drives Bálor into the cage wall again and gets the crowd to sing his song. Bálor rolls to the first ring, and Rollins follows him in. Bálor begs him off before going for a cheap shot, but Rollins blocks it. Rollins goes for a Buckle Bomb, but Bálor gets out and clotheslines him down. Bálor grabs the World Heavyweight Champion and drives him headfirst into the cage wall. Bálor grabs him again and repeats the move. Bálor chops the chest.

Three minutes to go until the Judgment Day, who won the WarGames Advantage Match on Monday Night Raw, gets a 2-on-1 advantage. Bálor sends Rollins into the cage wall and hits a Sling Blade. Bálor sizes Rollins up as the crowd chants, “CM Punk.” Bálor charges, but Rollins kicks him down. They’re in between the two rings on the diamond plate covering. Rollins goes for a Pedigree, but Bálor hits a back body drop on the diamond plate. Rollins’s perpetually injured lower back locks up on him. Bálor goes to the top rope for a Coup de Grâce, but Rollins moves. Rollins hits a Sling Blade and gets to his feet. Rollins punches Bálor down in the corner. Rollins whips Bálor to the corner and avalanches him before hitting a back suplex into a backbreaker. Rollins connects with a running knee to the face.

Time expires. JD McDonagh joins the match. As he goes to get in the ring, Rollins kicks him right out of the cage. Bálor attacks Rollins, but Rollins whips him hard into the opposite corner. Rollins grabs McDonagh, but McDonagh attacks him with a kendo stick shot. McDonagh brings two kendo sticks in the ring and gives one to Bálor. The three-minute clock begins. McDonagh and Bálor tee off on Rollins with kendo stick shots. Bálor chokes Rollins with the kendo stick. Another “CM Punk” chant picks up. McDonagh swings at Rollins, but Rollins blocks it. Rollins sends McDonagh to the diamond plate between the two rings and elbows Bálor back. McDonagh quickly attacks Rollins and springboards off the middle rope of the second ring and moonsaults into the first ring on Rollins. Bálor and McDonagh grab Rollins and take him down with the kendo stick. McDonagh hangs Rollins on the top rope, and Bálor comes off the second rope with a kendo stick shot to the spine. Bálor digs the kendo stick into Rollins’ face and talks trash. Bálor and McDonagh hit a double-team straightjacket suplex.

Time expires, and “Main Event” Jey Uso joins the match. The “YEET” chants fill the arena. Jey looks into the ring and sees Bálor and McDonagh holding chairs. He grabs a chair from ringside and gets in the ring to take them down. Jey punches away at McDonagh and takes him down. Jey then goes off on Bálor with punches. Jey connects with enzuigiris on both McDonagh and Bálor. The crowd loudly cheers Jey. Jey hits Bálor with a running hip attack. Jey charges at McDonagh, but McDonagh takes him down with a standing Spanish Fly.

Drew McIntyre furiously stares down at Jey Uso from the cage he’s contained in. Rollins pulls Jey out of a double-team suplex. Rollins goes after Bálor, and Jey concentrates on McDonagh. Rollins punches away at Bálor until he escapes to the second ring. Rollins steps over from the top rope in the first ring to the top rope in the second ring and hits a diving ax handle.

Time expires, and Drew McIntyre starts to head out of the cage. Damian Priest holds him back and tells him to stick to the plan. Damian Priest then heads toward the ring. Priest cautiously gets in the ring, and Rollins and Jey ambush him. Priest fights them off, but Rollins hits him in the ribs with the steel chair. Bálor and McDonagh join in to help. It’s currently 3-on-2. Priest pulls out a metal baton and viciously attacks Rollins and Jey with it. Priest avalanches Rollins and Jey. Priest flattens Jey with a Broken Arrow before hitting Rollins with a flatliner. Priest goes to the top rope. Bálor and McDonagh hold Rollins and Jey up. Priest flattens them with a twisting senton.

Priest punches Rollins, and Rollins rolls into the second ring. Priest punches and stomps away at Rollins. In the first ring, McDonagh holds Jey up as Bálor hits him in the midsection with a steel chair. Bálor smashes the chair off Jey’s back. Bálor drives the chair into Jey’s throat.

Time expires. Sami Zayn shakes hands with Cody Rhodes and makes his way to the ring. Zayn hits McDonagh in the head with the kendo stick and slams the door into Bálor’s face. Zayn thinks about it and goes under the ring for a table. The crowd absolutely ROARS in approval. An “Ucey” chant picks up. Priest punches Jey down, and Zayn clotheslines Priest over the top rope onto the diamond plate. Priest nearly landed on his head. Zayn stomps away at Priest in between the rings. Zayn gets back in the first ring and attacks Bálor before hitting a Blue Thunder Bomb. Zayn goes to the top rope. A LOUD “Ucey” chant fires up. Zayn looks around before attempting to climb to the top of the cage wall. McDonagh quickly grabs Zayn, but Zayn smashes him off the cage wall. McDonagh lands crotch-first on the top rope and falls to the canvas. Zayn pulls a pipe off the cage and hits McDonagh with it. Bálor charges, but Zayn hits him with the pipe. Priest goes after Zayn, but Zayn springboards over him and smashes him in the face with the pipe.

A ”Sami” chant fires up as Zayn punches Bálor down in the corner. Zayn digs his boots into Bálor’s face. Zayn punches McDonagh. Zayn and Rollins take turns punching away at McDonagh. Rollins then chops Bálor’s chest. Zayn hits Bálor with a kendo stick. Rollins sets a chair up and bounces Bálor off it. Zayn tosses a kendo stick to Jey, who is in the second ring, but he overshoots and it sails out of the ring.

Time expires, and Drew McIntyre joins the match. McIntyre slams Rollins down and attacks Zayn in the corner. McIntyre hits Zayn with a WILD overhead belly-to-belly suplex. McIntyre grabs Rollins and gives him an inverted Alabama Slam onto Zayn!

McIntyre has his eyes fixed on Jey Uso, who is in the second ring. McIntyre slowly gets in the ring and stares at the man he blames for all his woes over the past year and more. Jey punches away at McIntyre and uppercuts him. McIntyre quickly comes back with a neckbreaker and kips up. We have 1:30 left until Jey, Rollins, and Zayn get some relief. It’s 4-on-3 right now. McIntyre tells Jey to apologize and acknowledge what he has done. McIntyre slams him into the cage wall a few times. McIntyre then scoops him up and lawn darts him into the cage wall. McDonagh stomps and punches Zayn down. McIntyre goes for a Claymore Kick on Jey, but Jey superkicks him. Jey and Zayn then hit McIntyre with the 1D! Bálor and Priest quickly attack Zayn.

Time expires, and it’s a dream come true. “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes enters the match created by his father, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes. Rhodes gets in the ring and viciously attacks Priest. Rhodes punches Bálor in between the ring. Rhodes punches away at McDonagh in the second ring and hits a clothesline. McDonagh reverses a whip to the corner, but Rhodes gets out and hits McDonagh with a back body drop. Rhodes then attacks Bálor and gives him a front suplex onto McDonagh.

Rhodes then drags a bull rope into the ring, one of his father’s preferred weapons. Rollins grabs the other end, and they get into a tug-of-war. They then attack McDonagh before hitting Bálor and crotching him with it. Rollins shouts about Randy Orton. It’s 4-on-4. Rhodes punches Priest in the first ring. The clock is counting down to give the Judgment Day the advantage once again.

Time expires, and NXT North American Champion “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio enters the ring to loud boos. The Judgment Day has a 5-on-4 advantage. Mysterio gets in the ring and attacks Rollins, Bálor, Zayn, and Rhodes. Mysterio gets in the first ring and hits Rhodes with Two Amigos. On the Third Amigo, he stops when he sees Zayn, Rollins, and Jey surrounding him. All four men then viciously beat Mysterio down to the delight of the crowd. Rhodes punches Mysterio into the second ring. Rollins puts Bálor in the corner. Zayn and Rollins lean the table in the corner. Rhodes sends Mysterio into the cage wall. Rollins sets up for a powerbomb through the table in the corner, but the Judgment Day saves “Dirty” Dom.

The crowd starts to chant for Randy Orton before chanting for CM Punk. McIntyre and Priest hit Rollins, Rhodes, and Zayn with stereo chokeslams. McDonagh then crushes Zayn with a moonsault off the top rope. Bálor follows up with a Coup de Grâce on Rollins. Mysterio then hits Rhodes with a Frog Splash. The Judgment Day sets the table upright in the corner. Priest then gives Rollins the Razor’s Edge through the table! The Judgment Day stands tall.

The clock counts down… and no Randy Orton! Instead, Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley runs down with a referee and the Money in the Bank briefcase!

“I HEAR VOICES IN MY HEAD!”

RANDY ORTON makes his return after more than a year. He is clean-shaven. The crowd gives him an incredible ovation. Orton gets in the ring and closes the door. The bell rings to officially start WarGames.

LET THE WARGAMES BEGIN. Orton clotheslines Mysterio twice and hits a snap powerslam. Orton then this McDonagh with a snap powerslam. Orton had double fusion back surgery, but he’s moving around great. Orton sends Mysterio and McDonagh into the cage wall. Orton hooks Bálor’s head and gives him a hanging DDT!

McIntyre stares at Orton from the second rope. McIntyre gets into the first ring and stares down his old nemesis. Priest attacks Orton from behind. The Judgment Day beats down Orton in the corner. Rhodes, Jey, Rollins, and Zayn cut them off. The entire Judgment Day is in between the ring the two rings. Rhodes, Zayn, Rollins, Jey, and Orton hit stereo-hanging DDTs on the Judgment Day. Orton drops down for an RKO, but then he turns toward Jey to let him know that he hasn’t forgotten what he did to him. Jey superkicks Priest before he attacks Orton. Orton then gives Mysterio an RKO. Rollins gives Priest a Stomp on the diamond plate. Rhodes hits Bálor with a Cody Cutter, and Zayn hits McIntyre with a Cody Kick. Jey leaps off the top rope from the first ring into the second ring with an Uso Splash on McIntyre.

McDonagh is the last man standing and tries to scale the cage wall to save himself. If McDonagh leaves, he’ll forfeit the match for his team. Zayn and Rollins follow him to the top of the cage and attack him. Orton looks up at McDonagh on top of the cage. He’s ready! Rollins and Zayn push McDonagh off the top of the cage into an RKO from Orton! The crowd explodes. Orton sends Priest into Rhodes. Rhodes hits Priest with Cross Rhodes for the win.

Winners by Pinfall: Cody Rhodes, Jey Uso, Sami Zayn, Seth “Freakin” Rollins, and Randy Orton
The show starts to end… and CM PUNK’S MUSIC HITS!!! CM PUNK MAKES HIS WAY OUT TO THE STAGE!!!! CM PUNK RETURNS TO WWE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY 10 YEARS!!!!! A MASSIVE “CM Punk” chant picks up. Punk is fired up and celebrates with the crowd. Oh my goodness, what an ending to this show!

By: Cameron Hawkins from The Ringer
Published November 22, 2023

Stephen King, the seminal horror writer and book-to-film juggernaut, was an event television mainstay throughout the late 20th century. Novels like Salem’s Lot and It were adapted for the screen, producing big-budget visuals for the King novels that readers had devoured over the years. One of the scariest, in both tone and execution, was The Langoliers. During a cross-country flight, nine passengers and the pilot awake to find that everyone else on the plane has gone missing. They land at a deserted airport and discover they’ve been displaced in space and time. Ultimately, the fear of the unknown coupled with losing their connection to the world would grab hold of these individuals.

While not as deliberately fantastic as The Langoliers, Jey Uso experienced a similar fear while working as a singles superstar for the first time in his WWE career three years ago. “Ain’t nobody on these flights, bro, it’s just me,” Jey remembers thinking. “Just like the song say, dog, it’s just me …” Jey’s twin brother, Jimmy, had just injured his knee in a Triple Threat ladder match at WrestleMania 36. The two had been a tag team for their entire WWE tenure, first appearing on Raw rocking braids and sweater vests. They represented the new generation of Samoan wrestlers: college educated, hip to the business, and ready to take over. Throughout their run, they’d avoided the injury bug better than most. But in April 2020, the Usos would see a twofold separation—between WWE’s crowds from the company’s events, and the split of the longest-tenured team in WWE history. “That was Jimmy’s first real surgery ever,” Jey shares, reflecting on how he was the more injury-prone brother growing up. Jey lost his tag partner and travel partner, flying out to Florida weekly on bare-cabin flights. “I’m the only one catching flights,” Jey explains, with travel restrictions being enforced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “There’s like six people a flight. So it was intense, man. No one knew what was going on, man. All I knew was this, bro. I played my position, and I did what I was told.”

Jey assumed the role of co-pilot to Roman Reigns’s burgeoning dynasty during the latter’s Undisputed WWE Universal Championship run. In September 2020, Jey won a no. 1 contender’s match to challenge his cousin Roman at WWE Clash of Champions. Jimmy would return that night during the match to throw in the towel, pleading with Roman to spare Jey from potential injury. Jey received a second chance against Roman at Hell in a Cell, once again losing in a brutal, emotional, all-around fantastic match. But the real victory was Jey learning to reinvent himself in a foreign environment. “There’s no crowd. You feel me?” Jey explains, describing WWE’s ThunderDome era of pandemic programming. “So now, we done changed the game to where everything was all character-based. It was all emotion. I didn’t need a crowd. We putting on the TV show right now. And once that clicked with me, man, I just caught on at a different level.”

It helped that Jey was under the tutelage of two of the best in the game: his cousin Roman, who had finally combined his talent with his potential as the uber-confident “Tribal Chief,” and Roman’s head advisor, photographer-turned-manager-turned-promoter-turned-advocate to the stars Paul Heyman. Jey was eager to learn a new trade, even if he was working with the same set of tools. He didn’t have Jimmy beside him sharing promo and in-ring duties, but he had two top minds getting him up to speed. “That whole pandemic. I learned how to cut promos,” Jey confesses. “[Roman] taught me a whole lot, and he made me a bigger star than what I appeared.”

That singles run was a test. Jey passed with flying colors, but once Jimmy returned from injury, the Usos reunited, becoming Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions and joining their cousin to form the Bloodline faction. Jimmy and Jey would flank Roman as his heavies while reestablishing themselves as WWE’s premier tag team. [Jey and Jimmy’s younger brother, Solo Sikoa, would join the Bloodline in September.] In 2022 specifically, the Usos, like Roman, perfected the balance of elevating their division while maintaining their hold on the top prize. But you’d start to see differences in Jey’s appearance: he adopted a mullet hairstyle and cut his shirts to expose his abs, but more importantly, he was more defiant of the Tribal Chief’s direction. Soon, the group would adopt an outsider: the supremely talented, stunningly comedic Sami Zayn. Sami would cause Jey visible migraines, but would often be so opposingly funny in serious moments that the group, known for their timing and balance, would regularly break character. He was marshmallows on the yams; you don’t know how much sweeter a perfect thing can be until you bake it. “[Sami’s] the man,” Jey exclaims. “Bloodline was so dark all the time, you feel me? Like, we was just mad all the time, beating up everybody. When Sami Zayn came in, he elevated that. That acting, that entertainment part came out of all of us. The cool part about that was, man, he had different relationships [with] each character, and you can tell that through the TV screen.” Jey clearly understands what Sami added to the Bloodline at the time, plainly stating, “there’s no Bloodline without Sami Zayn, man. That’s a fact.”

Sami would prove to be the catalyst for the “Main Event” run Jey is currently on. Sami’s excommunication from the Bloodline for protecting his longtime friend Kevin Owens at the Royal Rumble in January 2023 saw Jey conflicted, as Sami had proved his loyalty time and time again. Sami and Kevin would ultimately end the Usos’s record-breaking tag title streak during the first night of WrestleMania 39, which soon led to the Bloodline’s implosion. The inner turmoil led to Jey receiving his first world title shot in front of a live crowd, challenging Reigns at this year’s SummerSlam. With everything Jey learned over the last three years, it wasn’t until he walked out for that match that he realized he could be accepted as a solo act. “It was my first time in my gear, like my merch shirt,” Jey remembers, explaining that he felt it when he started rocking with the crowd to his theme. “That’s when I knew. I think that’s the first time I was kind of like, ‘Yo, I think they with me.’” Jey lost the match due to interference from his brother Jimmy, a move that ended with Jey leaving the Bloodline and taking his talents to Raw. Jey now has all the momentum of a new star, almost 15 years into a career he never imagined without Jimmy by his side. Entering his second consecutive WarGames match at Survivor Series, he’ll once again be alongside Sami, but he’ll also have World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins, Raw frontman Cody Rhodes, and a returning Randy Orton versus the Judgment Day and Drew McIntyre. “I might lean on Sami more than anything in there,” Jey says. “I feel like we kind of know we’re the closest in there right now.”

With the tires kicked and fires lit on his singles path, Jey is still very much invested in what he, his twin brother, and their entire family have built. He watched his father, WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi, reinvent himself multiple times over his career, and that arc and his advice have made Jey’s transition easier. “My dad was the smartest man on the business side,” Jey declares. “He’s the one who always said ‘adapt.’ He’s the one who said, ‘change the game if you run it back, Uce.’” Jey breaks down his father’s evolution over the years, from the Headshrinkers to the more street-savvy Fatu character to working as the Sultan in a four-year time span. It’s easy to see where Jey got his adaptability from. “I got that from my dad, right. He says, enjoy it. Enjoy this ride. ‘Enjoy this ride, son, because it’s going to come to a stop one day,’ and I just make sure. Bruh, I used to be tired sometimes.”

Rikishi instilled his grind mentality in the Usos, who moved like no one before them. That grind, those miles, that desire is why, even while they’re apart, Jey feels it won’t be the last time they show the world why they’re at the top of so many all-time lists. And if there’s any doubt on who Jey would like to see the Usos battle to maintain that position, it would appear that Jey may be keeping a list. “FTR is top tier,” Jey says of the AEW pair, before mentioning the Guerillas of Destiny in New Japan Pro-Wrestling and “missing the boat” on a Hardy Boyz bout on SmackDown. That said, Jey wants to make one thing clear for any tag team wanting to make it happen. “If you all want these dream matches, you all going to have to bring your ass to WWE, dog, to the top tier. You all going to have to come. Where we at ain’t dropping down,” Jey states. “Young Bucks, everybody, like, bring it, dog. Run it. We the ones for a reason, and I mean that. I stand on that, bro. We the best tag team in the world. And if you want to get detailed with it, I’m talking about on the microphone, the way we dress, the way the gear look, the way we carry ourselves, the swag, the ink, everything. The hair, the grills, the earrings, the chain. All that’s real, Uce. All that is real.”

As the Thanksgiving travel season trudges on, those once-empty airports are populated once more. The fear that used to occupy Jey’s mind, that fear of being alone, is replaced by crowds chanting his name and dancing with him. Where he once wasn’t sure what part he’d play in the grand scheme of WWE, Jey’s now more focused on stealing the whole show, and his eyes are on the prize. “I want my first one. It ain’t even the big one. I want that IC title,” Jey says, calling it no. 1 on his to-do list while calling out the brute currently holding the Intercontinental championship. “My dad held it, Umaga held it. Shawn Michaels and all the greats, man. I want that. Gunther gonna have to damn run that.”

Jey is ensuring that being the deserving recipient of an impossible promotion 15 years in his career won’t go to his head while keeping those Air Force 1-protected feet on the ground. “I would have bad thoughts,” Jey shares. “I just turned 38. I still feel prime-time, Uce. I still feel young in my brain, my body. I’m still good. I’m ready to go, but I’m on the end of the career. Fifteen years is a good little stretch, man. I never thought we’d be running it like this, never in a million years, and let alone with my brothers and my cousin. Sometimes, it don’t even feel like work.”

Original Post has been credited to @CeeHawk of The Ringer
The Ringer

By Carl Lamarre

11/21/2023 (Billboard)

“Ay, Carl, you need me to Superkick your ass, too?” snarls WWE superstar Jey Uso.

While the invite seems tempting, I back down, knowing Jey is a trigger-happy wrestler who revels in unexpected kicks to the chin and top turnbuckle splashes. The swaggering athlete isn’t just a nine-time WWE tag-team champion but a lyrical obliterator on the mic.

He and his twin brother, Jimmy Uso, arguably have not only one of the best WWE entrances of all time, courtesy of their song “Day One Ish,” but also a history of decimating their peers in freestyle battles. In 2017, the Usos chewed out The New Day in a lyrical skirmish during Monday Night Raw. Hosted by Wale, Jey, and Jimmy savored the opportunity of skewering the New Day with their menacing bars. According to Jey, he and his brother’s love for penning raps came during their high school days. They would freestyle for their friends in the cafeteria and in return, received “oohs” and “aahs” for their steely efforts.

“I knew at the freestyle battle that they didn’t know we would come the way we did. They were doing some nursery rhymes over there,” Jey remembers about the classic 2017 battle against the New Day. “I knew we wanted them to be like, ‘What is going on here, dog?’ Let alone on national TV. Hell yeah, we gonna fire it up.”

Fast forward, Uso is now one of the most popular wrestlers in the business. After being embroiled in a three-year saga with his cousin, WWE undisputed champion Roman Reigns, Jey departed from WWE’s highly touted faction, The Bloodline, to live out his dreams as “Main Event Jey Uso.” Now, on his solo expedition, Jey has his own new WWE entrance theme, which remixes the bombastic original “Day One Ish.” The new song, “Main Event Ish,” symbolizes Jey’s lone wolf status, as he howls, “It’s just me Uce. Day one ish. It’s just me Uce,” on the hook.”

With dreams of overtaking Gunther, the WWE’s longest-reigning intercontinental champion, and fighting his brother Jimmy at the Super Bowl of all wrestling events, Wrestlemania, Jey has no issue superkicking anyone on his way to the top.

Billboard spoke to Jey about his love for Nipsey Hussle, wanting to invite Sexxy Red to a WWE show, why Kodak Black is his spirit animal, and recording his new entrance song “Main Event Ish.”

Big E did an interview a couple of years ago and he was like, “You guys were so good at rapping, you could drop an EP.” If Jey Uso was gonna drop a rap EP, who are the three people you’re calling up for features?

J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and T-Pain.

Why those three?

J. Cole is Cole and Kendrick is Kendrick. T-Pain, we grew up in Pensacola, Florida down the street from Tallahassee in the early 2000s. T-Pain was slapping. We used to ride out to Panama City Beach playing his hits before football games. It’s Florida boy all day.

What music are you listening to get pumped for your match-ups?

Nipsey Hussle, man. He be putting me in the zone. J. Cole is my favorite. I ain’t never been to no concerts, but if I ever get to go to a J. Cole concert, I’m in there. 2Pac, Jay-Z. We in there. I got a playlist all the way to damn Britney Spears. We got range over here.

Who would you say is the Jey Uso of the rap game?

I don’t even put myself up like that because I’m hustling trying to find myself. If I had to pick somebody, Kodak Black. He really be making noise out there, but he really don’t be. He’s trying to find his way out there just like me.

Talk about how the original “Day One Ish” song came about with your brother Jimmy.

After we turned heel, I knew we had to get away from all the colors. We’re dropping all the facepaint, we’re just going black-and-white. At the time, nobody was wearing white boots at all. We at the mall. Damn Champs got one and the other half-off type of stuff. We got these black joggers and this black hoodie with the white Forces. In the middle of the mall, where they put the logo on your shirts. We sitting on there, “What we gon’ put on this s–t?” My brother’s like, “I don’t know, man. Some Day One S–t?” We can’t say s–t but what about ish? You know how they blank it out on the rap records. “Day One Ish, uce.”

So it really means “Day One S–t.” We put that on a hoodie and we wore it on TV and it stuck since. Some “Day One Ish” from then on. We got in the booth and they wanted us to have new music. We had these two younger cats that came up with the hook, “Down since Day One Ish.” We was just ad-libbing on the track and they let us flow. First couple times we was held back, but then we got warmed up and started yelling and hitting it. We were damn near sweating in the booth.

What was it like re-recording your new entrance music solo? What was that energy like?

I went back to New York. They wanted to take Jimmy off the original. The Usos and the Uso Penitentiary – take all that out. I’m like, “Fly me over there, let me see if I can re-do it.” They wanted to keep the “Day One Ish, [and] line ‘em all up.” I could keep all that, but I needed a damn switch for that beginning part. I’m in there with another young homie. He’s like trying to help me find the rhythm. He goes, “It’s just you now.” I go, “Yeah, it is. It’s just me on the track.”

Then I started like, “It is just me in this b–-ch.” It’s my turn. I started getting in that mindset. I was like, “Main Event Jey Uso is now in yo city!” I started yelling on there, and he’s plugging it in. Taking the old parts out and plugging in the new s–t. The beats were a little more tweaked. Other than that, I kept it to when I get on the turnbuckle — this part right here, no lyrics. This just needs to be the beat. This is where the hip-hop hooray handwave or whatever you wanna call it comes from. I wanted to incorporate the audience into it. It will make you say, “Ay.” I wanted to bleep all the lyrics out and just have the people getting involved here. Every second of that theme is timed to as soon as I hit the turnbuckle, they’re there with me. All timing, dog.

Did you see the Sexyy Red “SkeeYee” mash-up? What were your thoughts? I know she said she wants to pull up for a show.

First off, I was like, “No way, dog! She out here responding?” Then, I see her in a controversy and I don’t give a damn. Us too, who cares? Let’s get these numbers in with her. She’s still down and said she’s never came to a wrestling live event, a PLE, TV taping. If you hear this, [Sexyy,] you’ll be my VIP guest around here, girl. You can come out with me and help me sing my theme song. We gon’ have to change that red to blue though!

I think it’s dope entertainers are pivoting into wrestling whether it’s Bad Bunny or Logan Paul. Who’s the next athlete or entertainer you’d like to see step into the ring?

First one that comes to mind is Conor McGregor. He’s kinda been tip-toeing around us a little bit. He’s had interactions with a couple of us, but never fully got in here. I’d like to see what he’s about. I love Shaquille O’Neal, so I personally think about LeBron James and I know he’s a huge fan. Let’s run it. They can all catch this Superkick though. Sexyy Red can get her ass Superkicked too!

Thanksgiving is coming up, and I’m concerned how the house gonna be with you, Solo, Jimmy and your dad Rikishi. Talk about what that dynamic’s gonna be like.

Ay, Carl, ain’t nobody coming to my house for Thanksgiving except my dad. That’s the only one. I’ma fly him down. Last year, I fried a turkey and everybody ate that. I’m frying three turkeys this year. It’s going down. As far as Solo and Jimmy, y’all take your asses home and stay somewhere. Especially Solo, he’s over there tripping.

What does an ideal singles run look like for Jey Uso?

The first singles championship on the top of my list is the IC [Intercontinental Championship] title. Gunther gonna have to run that. Everybody over there. He likes the Tribal Chief, you see what I do to the Tribal Chief? I don’t give a damn, let’s run that. My dad was an IC champion, my uncle, Umaga IC champion. Shawn Michaels. My favorite wrestler, the greatest, Razor Ramon. All the greats held the Intercontinental Championship and I’m trying to get that. That’s Pay-Per-View material right there.

You and your brother Jimmy had the conversation of what a Wrestlemania match-up would look like. With Wrestlemania 40, do you have in mind who’d you want to fight on that stage?

Right now, I feel like Jimmy’s at the top of the list. He’s gotta get this work. He’s still ducking me right now. He knows what it is. If I could talk from Josh and me, it’s my dream match. If this does happen, I’d be so grateful and happy. I would just look at him like look what we doing. Look at this! Those are special moments in the ring that nobody in the world knows. When we did the Money in the Bank with Roman [Reigns] and Solo, I was just looking at them getting a little teary-eyed like, “Look at us.” That would go down as the No. 1 moment in my career if I get to wrestle with Jimmy in the sold-out Philadelphia in front of friends and family. And I’d beat his ass. If I could pick someone else, I’d probably wanna run it one time with Seth Rollins for that championship. He’s a GOAT. He’s a beast and got my respect. He’s been holding down Monday Night RAW forever. I’m with it.

Team Cody & The Judgment Day Segment

Cody Rhodes: So, Washington DC, what do you guys want to talk about? I know what we should talk about. I have a lot of wonderful memories in this arena. And I want to give to you a memory tonight. And I’m going to do so when myself and my tag team partner, “Main Event” Jey Uso, I’m telling you here, I’m telling you now, everybody watching at home, we are going to win the Undisputed Tag Team Championships tonight. Thus, the immediate future on the horizon, we have the match beyond, WarGames. So, without further ado, allow me to introduce to you, my team.

Seth Rollins: You’re too kind, DC.

Cody Rhodes: DC, we are all in the ring for one reason. And that reason is, The Judgment Day. Whether I’ve gotten along with you my entire career, whether I just recently gotten along with you, or.

Finn Balor: Hey, boys, take a look at these four clowns. They can’t even look each other in the eye. How on earth do you think you’re going to beat The Judgment Day at WarGames?

Damian Priest: Guys let’s be real. You’re a group of randoms, thrown together. This is a family. I really don’t think you all realize what you’re getting yourselves into at WarGames. When you step inside that giant cage, I promise you, The Judgment Day will finally be done with each and every one of you.

Finn Balor: Hey, Seth Freakin’ Rollins. How does it feel being World Heavyweight Champion, but standing next to Cody Rhodes, the one man you could never beat?

Damian Priest: Speaking of Cody, how does it feel knowing that you can beat these guys in any match you want, but the one thing you can’t do is be a champion?

Finn Balor: Hey, Sami Zayn. Sami, you call yourself a world championship level superstar. But after your performance last week, your partners know, and I know that you’re nothing but a loser.

Damian Priest: Let’s not forget, “Main Event” Jey Uso. Let me ask you three a question. Can you really trust this guy, knowing that he screwed each and every one of you in the name of his bloodline?

Dominik Mysterio: The truth is.

Sami Zayn: The truth is, nobody wants to hear you talk, alright? You don’t think we see what you’re trying to do here? You’re trying to pit us all against each other. That’s not what this is about. We can put all the individual issues we have to the side, because let’s be honest, this match is about power, isn’t it? Yeah, that’s what you guys always talk about. And I’ll give you guys credit, you have managed to get a lot of power when you’ve been able to cheat. and play the numbers game. But guess what? At Survivor Series, it’s WarGames. And you don’t know what you’re in for, pal. Two rings. One cage. And it’s going to be the most brutal match of your lives. You’re going to find out the hard way, that the power in Monday Night Raw lies with the four guys that you’re looking at in this ring right now.

Cody Rhodes: And, hey, speaking of power, I’m shock you guys figured out how to get down here tonight without Mami. I mean, she is your leader, right? You were going to say, The Judgment Day has no leaders. But when Mami’s gone, I assume the power goes to Dom. Is Dom the leader? Okay, I get it, Dom’s not the leader, neither is Finn or you, Priest. I guess that makes JD McDonagh the leader. Is JD the leader?

Damian Priest: Cody, I’m the leader.

Jey Uso: Hey, Cody, I think you got him hot, right now. YEET!

Seth Rollins: Hey, shut up. Will everybody shut up. I am sick and tired of all this talking. I am ready for a fight. Now four of us got to fight tonight, four of us don’t. I’m dressed for a fight. Sami, you’re dressed for a fight. How about we slap the taste out of two bozos? Come on, JD. Come on, Dom. Let’s go.

Damian Priest: Hey, Seth. We accept it.

Seth Rollins: Let’s call, Adam Pearce. Let’s make this official.

**Side Note**
Finn Balor and Damian Priest pulls Rollins out of the ring which forces the disqualification. After the match, The Judgment Day gangs up on Rollins and Zayn. Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso joins the fray. All hell is breaking loose at ringside. Jey SuperKicks Priest. Jey Spears McDonagh. Adam Pearce is done with the nonsense. Pearce informs us that the other competitors in WarGames that are not involved in tonight’s tag team title main event will now be banned from the arena. Rhea Ripley is absolutely livid about that decision.

Jey Uso will start the match against Finn Bálor. They lock up, and Bálor hooks a side headlock. Jey whips him off, but Bálor shoulder tackles him. Bálor hits the ropes, but Jey floors him with a back elbow. The crowd chants, “YEET.” Jey slaps Bálor in the face, and Bálor slaps him back. The two teams are fully in the ring and begin brawling. Rhodes knocks Priest out of the ring.

Jey reverses a whip to the corner, and Bálor hits hard before collapsing to his knees. Jey wrenches the arm and tags Rhodes in. Rhodes comes off the ropes with an elbow to the arm. Rhodes hooks the head and executes a beautiful delayed vertical front suplex for a two-count. Jey tags back in and punches the midsection. Bálor stumbles to the corner. Bálor kicks Jey in the midsection and puts him in his corner. Damian Priest tags in and uppercuts Jey down. Priest talks trash to Rhodes and throws Jey to the corner. Priest punches and stomps Jey down. Priest taunts the crowd. Bálor tags in. Priest kicks Jey, and Bálor follows up with a beautiful scissor kick for a near fall.

Bálor applies a chin lock. Jey fights up, but Bálor takes him down. Bálor punches and stomps him. Rhodes gets in the ring and stops Priest from getting in the ring. Jey sends Bálor out of the ring. Rhodes knocks Priest out of the ring and bounces him off the commentary table.

We come back from the break to see Jey fighting back against Bálor with some punches. Jey tackles him into his corner, and Rhodes tags in. Rhodes sends Bálor into the ropes and turns him inside out with a knee to the midsection. Bálor wrenches the arm, but Rhodes cartwheels through and applies a side headlock. Bálor whips him off, and Rhodes lifts him up. Priest distracts the referee, and Bálor uses the distraction to rake the eyes. Bálor gets Rhodes in the corner and tags Priest in. Priest punches away at Rhodes and takes him down. Priest peppers him with some stinging left jabs. Priest drives his boot into Rhodes’s throat and releases before being disqualified. Priest kicks him in the shoulder and punches him. Rhodes fights back, but Priest kicks him and sends him out of the ring. Bálor tags in and goes to ringside to chop Rhodes. Bálor puts Rhodes in the ring and gets him in the corner. Bálor punches and chops Rhodes. Bálor sends him to the opposite corner, but Rhodes boots him back. Bálor comes right back with an abdominal stretch. Rhodes fights out and goes for an elbow drop, but Bálor moves. Priest tags in and stomps Rhodes. Rhodes gets up and punches back at Priest. Priest levels him with a strike before sending him into the ropes, but he lowers his head and eats a kick. Rhodes hits the ropes, but Priest turns him upside down and hits a cradle tombstone slam for a two-count. Priest clubs the back and goes for a back suplex, but Rhodes flips through. Rhodes punches Bálor on the apron and tags Jey in.

Jey comes in and punches away at Priest. The crowd says, “YEET” after each punch. Jey punches Bálor off the apron. Priest puts Jey on the apron, but Jey kicks him back. Jey comes off the top rope, but Priest catches him. Jey fights it. Priest punches Jey, but Jey responds with a kick to the head. Bálor blind tags in. Jey takes it to Priest and hits the ropes, but Bálor sweeps the feet. Priest knocks Jey out of the ring, and Bálor viciously clotheslines him on the floor. Bálor and Priest taunt the crowd. Bálor drives him into the apron and punches him in the midsection. Bálor then sends Jey over the commentary table.

Back from the final break of the evening, Jey takes Priest down with an enzuigiri.

Rhodes and Bálor tag in. Rhodes punches away at Bálor. Bálor reverses a whip, but Rhodes hits a running forearm. Rhodes slingshots over him and hits a snap powerslam. Rhodes connects with a Disaster Kick and is fired up. Priest runs in, but Rhodes hits some stinging left jabs and his father’s Bionic Elbow. Bálor rolls up Rhodes for a two-count. Rhodes fights him and goes for a Cody Cutter, but Bálor catches him. Rhodes fights it and goes for Cross Rhodes, but Bálor fights out. Priest blind tags in. Jey also blind tags in. Rhodes avoids an avalanche from Priest. Jey kicks Bálor back and comes off the top rope with a cross-body block on Priest for a two-count.

Jey gets fired up and ducks an attack from Bálor. Jey superkicks Bálor down. Jey superkicks Priest, but he doesn’t go down. A second superkick takes Priest down. Jey goes to the top rope and hits an Uso Splash for a near fall!

Both men are down. The crowd is into this match. Jey gets to his feet and charges Priest, but Priest kicks him in the face before punching him down. Priest signals for the end. Bálor tags in. Jey gets out of South of Heaven and attacks Bálor. Rhodes gets in the ring and hits Priest with Cross Rhodes. Jey then hits Bálor with a Spear. Rhodes and Jey hit a flapjack/Cody Cutter combo. 1… 2… Priest breaks it up. Rhodes knocks Priest out of the ring and hits a suicide dive. Priest fights back and sends Rhodes into the LED ring post, which breaks into pieces. Priest then gives Rhodes the South of Heaven on the apron.

Jey takes out Priest and Bálor with a somersault senton. Jey puts Bálor in the ring and turns to see Drew McIntyre standing there. McIntyre angrily stares at Jey before leveling him with a Claymore Kick! McIntyre puts Jey in the ring and walks away. Bálor looks surprised by this and then covers Jey for the win.

Winners by Pinfall and still Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions: The Judgment Day
Replays are shown of Drew McIntyre giving Jey Uso the Claymore Kick to cost Jey and Rhodes the Tag Team Titles.

Drew McIntyre stands at the top of the ramp and stares down at the ring. Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley comes out and stands next to him. McIntyre looks over at her. Ripley extends her hand, and McIntyre shakes it! McIntyre smiles at her, and she smiles back. Rhodes and Jey do not look happy in the ring.

Jey Uso reconnected with Sami Zayn in first Raw appearance

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Cody Rhodes was on The Grayson Waller Effect where he made a BLOCKBUSTER announcement. He said that Monday Night Raw had acquired a new star. That new star would be “Main Event” Jey Uso. Main Event Jey Uso comes back after 3 weeks of being out of The Bloodline, Smackdown and WWE. Jey Uso seems to want a fresh start on the red brand. He knows while being in the Bloodline he ruffled some feathers, but he is not afraid of whats to come.

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Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns def. Jey Uso in Tribal Combat; Jimmy Uso assaulted his brother

With the Ula Fala on the line, Jey Uso brought the arsenal early, setting up a table in the no disqualification, no count-out Tribal Combat.Showing his dominance, Reigns fired the first shot by hitting Jey over and over with a Kendo stick.

With pent-up aggression, Jey laid into The Tribal Chief with vicious steel chair blows, even as Paul Heyman pleaded for him to stop.Reigns took back control after powerbombing Jey onto a litany of steel chairs laid out in the ring. Jey found a moment of reprieve after a desperate Samoan Drop that drove Reigns through the table at ringside.

Brandishing a leather strap, Jey brutally punished his cousin, laying into Reigns and searing his flesh with the hard leather. Jey’s retribution would not last, however, as his brother Solo Sikoa appeared to smash Jey through a table with the Spinning Solo.

As Reigns and Sikoa were about to hit their Spear/Spike combo, Jey moved out of the way, making Reigns hit Sikoa with the Spear instead! The hurt for Reigns continued as he argued with Sikoa, which allowed Jey to spear The Head of the Table through the ringside barricade.Just as Jey landed a death-defying Uso Splash from the top rope and appeared to be a three-count away from becoming champion, a masked individual pulled Jey out of the ring.

After revealing himself to be Jimmy Uso and staring daggers through his brother for several uncomfortable seconds, Jimmy blasted Jey with a vicious superkick. With the betrayal still fresh, Reigns exploded Jey through a table with a Spear to remain Tribal Chief and Undisputed WWE Universal Champion.

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Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns came face-to-face with Jey Uso en route to the Tribal Combat at SummerSlam. Uso to Reigns: “I beat you before & I’ll do it again”

As an unhinged Jey Uso battled Grayson Waller just eight days before him will battles Roman Reigns in Tribal Combat for the Undisputed WWE Universal Title at SummerSlam, The Head of the Table, Solo Sikoa and Special Counsel Paul Heyman emerged to watch.

At the height of the match, Jey made a statement when he hit Waller with a Reigns’ Spear before finishing off his opponent with the Uso Splash for the win.

When Solo attacked in the aftermath, Jey took his younger brother down with a Superkick before stopping an advancing Reigns in his tracks with a Spear. The numbers game, however, proved too much as Reigns and Sikoa roared back with a merciless onslaught that ended with Solo holding up his older brother as Reigns hit a pair of devastating Spears.

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