WWE Has A Huge Jey Uso PROBLEM!

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Check out Sportskeeda's brand new game, BrainBuster! Can you become the undisputed quiz champion? Play now to find out - https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe/brainbuster-wwe-player-guessing-game  Jey Uso has been at the center of WWE’s biggest storylines, with Roman Reigns, Jimmy Uso, Paul Heyman & Solo Sikoa, but now it seems there’s a huge problem brewing! As the Bloodline saga takes unexpected turns, with the new Bloodline taking sides with Solo, the future of Main Event Jey is uncertain. Recent events have left fans wondering what's next. Will Jey stay loyal to The Bloodline, or is he about to shake things up in a way no one saw coming?   You can also visit our site: https://www.sportskeeda.com/wwe  #jeyuso #bloodline #wwe #wrestling #sportskeedawrestling

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00:00Jey Uso has been one of WWE's hottest stars since 2023, the reactions he has when he comes

00:23out are getting only even better.

00:26Yes, maybe some of you watching this video are already saying yeet yourselves, it feels

00:32like more has changed for him in 3 years than it did in the previous 11 years of his career,

00:38which was already an outstanding career.

00:41He was a popular good guy, he consistently gets the best reactions, everything is good

00:46right?

00:47Maybe, maybe not, let's get into the current issues with Jey Uso in WWE, we'll break

00:55it all down, let us know what you think of Jey Uso, are you for the yeet or against the

01:02yeeting?

01:03Let us know in the comments below, I'm Kevin Kellum, this is Sportskeeda Wrestling, stand

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01:19see if you're up for the challenge.

01:22In the highly competitive landscape of Monday Night Raw for WWE, which is bound for some

01:27even bigger things with the upcoming move to Netflix, it seems like Jey Uso could be

01:32at risk of maybe getting lost in the proverbial shuffle of a constantly spinning circus that

01:38has many many different people that want to take the spotlight, and it can happen quicker

01:43than you think.

01:44So what exactly is the Jey Uso problem that WWE might have, and we're just speculating

01:50here.

01:51Let's take a deeper dive into all of this.

01:53To understand the Jey Uso issue WWE has, it's worth rewinding a few years to get full context.

02:00It just so happened that Jimmy Uso's knee, that's right, Jey Uso's brother, won half

02:04of the Uso's tag team in arguably one of the greatest tag teams of their generation.

02:10That injury would hinder the team right as the pandemic was getting going, and would

02:14keep him out for the rest of 2020, making Jey somewhat a circumstantial beneficiary

02:21of this, while his cousin Roman Reigns was doing something fresh and new with his character.

02:27During the pandemic they reinvented Roman Reigns as the tribal chief, and that whole

02:32bloodline story got going, and he needed someone to spin his maniacal hubris change into an

02:39ego driven monster, and that person was the supporting player, main event, Jey Uso.

02:46And this took a lot for the audience to get used to, this was someone we were never used

02:50to seeing without his brother far away from him.

02:52He was virtually seen as inseparable from his brother to WWE fans, and all of the jokes

02:58were there about how people couldn't tell the difference between them, but that's

03:01your dumb fault because, I don't know, you can't tell twins apart.

03:06Then they went away for the first time, and he was suddenly put in that position to challenge

03:10the newly won WWE Universal Championship by his cousin Roman Reigns, with Paul Heyman

03:15at his side pulling the strings.

03:18It was all mind games, that's right, Jey Uso did not want to fall under the command

03:22of his maniacal cousin Roman Reigns, and a match he had to win to become the number one

03:28contender was put in place.

03:30Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman pulled the strings to make that possible, and when Jey faced

03:34Roman for the Universal Championship, he would be the first of many victims.

03:39And he was also the first victim to be transformed, molded in the vision of the one Tribal Chief

03:46Roman Reigns, you will be what I need you to be because I'm the leader of the family,

03:52blah blah blah blah blah, yeah, he was a real evil guy, that Roman Reigns, when he was doing

03:57the Tribal Chief thing, yeah, and when Jey's brother Jimmy returned, they were once again

04:02a tag team, but Jey made a mark during that time.

04:06He came out of the shadow of just being one half of the Usos, and when they were reformed

04:12as a tag team, they were now a fresher, reinvented version.

04:16They became more than just the two brothers, they became a vicious, very meaner version

04:21of themselves.

04:23Even though he was a part of the tag team again, they started to reign upon the tag

04:28team division and have one of the longest reigns ever as WWE Tag Team Champions in the

04:33company's history, and he was still main event Jey Uso.

04:38He was still the right hand man, but there was always a feeling that he could be more

04:42than that.

04:43We would go so far as to argue that the run he had before Jimmy came back still paid dividends

04:49to this day, it was still under their surface the whole time they had this monumental tag

04:54team run.

04:55It came at a bit of a weird way though, because it followed Jimmy leaving the bloodline abruptly.

05:02Fans wanted to see Jey Uso come out on his own as a single star, and he would finally

05:07get that opportunity in 2023, and when Jey was the first one to pin Roman Reigns after

05:13almost 1300 days at the Money in the Bank event, it was a big Civil War tag team match

05:19that set up a big blockbuster main event between Jey Uso and Roman Reigns again.

05:24In the twist, it still makes no sense a year later that Jimmy Uso his brother would return

05:31and betray his brother even though Jimmy Uso betrayed Roman Reigns, showing his alliance

05:36to the bloodline.

05:42At first Jimmy seemed like he was still against Roman Reigns, and was all personal against

05:48Jey his brother, but it ended up that he was rejoining the bloodline anyway, and since

05:53Jey was never going to be the one to dethrone Roman Reigns, although many argue he should

05:59have, it made sense for him to be in a I quit WWE situation and be brought simply back over

06:06on Money in the Bank to get away from the family and start a journey on his own.

06:10The reaction he got at Payback when he returned was massive.

06:16Fans were ready to see Jey Uso take that next real formidable step in his career and set

06:23a real path under his own name, not just the family name, and the betrayal at Summerslam

06:29while making no actual freaking sense did serve the purpose of having the Jey vs. Jimmy

06:34Wrestlemania match down the line.

06:37There were a few problems for Jey a few months into his run as a singles guy on Raw.

06:42Just a month in, he won the undisputed tag team championships with Cody Rhodes.

06:47What's the problem?

06:48It immediately begged the question, was he brought over to Raw just to be a tag team

06:52champion again?

06:53That's not a bad thing, but obviously this is something he was already familiar with.

06:58How was this too different than what fans had for him in their hopes?

07:02Yes, people that want a fantasy book were getting their tweezers out for that one to

07:06pluck a hair or two.

07:07Yeah, in only 9 days, he and Cody lost the titles back to Finn Balor and Damian Priest

07:12of the Judgment Day, but it did serve one purpose.

07:14For one, Cody got to go to Smackdown and have a silent face to face confrontation since

07:20If you were the tag team champions at the time, you could do so, and he got to have

07:24that face to face with Roman Reigns and set up their rematch half a year later.

07:30Even after that, Jey was still technically in one of WWE's biggest storylines.

07:35He was teaming up with Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, and Randy Orton against the Judgment

07:40Day at Survivor Series War Games in front of a sold out, rocking all state arena in

07:46Chicago.

07:47I was there.

07:48It was awesome.

07:49Overall, it was so far so good kind of situation, but the problems began to emerge in late 2023.

07:56The main issue was that Jey, while useful and very popular, was lower on the priority

08:01list.

08:02There was a lot of people getting over around this time, and sometimes people get shuffled.

08:07Sometimes some people usurp their position or overperform expectations.

08:12He wasn't going to be the one to dethrone Gunther for the WWE Intercontinental Championship

08:16that he had an iron grip on, and his title reign was breaking records.

08:21Even his feud against Drew McIntyre, the idea was to turn Drew into a vicious bad guy at

08:27the expense of Jey Uso.

08:29So WWE couldn't have Jey besting him in the match, but Jey still did the right thing

08:34by helping to get a character ready for WrestleMania season.

08:38So he was kind of in a weird position where he was used as a utility player, but was still

08:43very credible and could be a championship challenger whenever called upon.

08:47But seemingly never the guy that could win the big one on his own.

08:52Honestly, WWE wasn't really wrong about that, sometimes having that depth is clearly

08:57good for such a broad roster with so many spinning plates.

09:01Would it have made sense for him to dethrone Seth Rollins and become the World Heavyweight

09:05Champion when they faced off at Raw in December?

09:07I don't know, because then there's so many different things you couldn't do with

09:10Seth Rollins going into WrestleMania 40 season.

09:13Would it have made sense for him to dethrone Gunther and face off in early 2024?

09:18Not exactly, you got to have that big moment with Sami Zayn and Gunther at WrestleMania

09:2240.

09:23Since WWE was running for Jey vs. Jimmy match, brother vs. brother, a match that both brothers

09:29have professed they wanted for years, it made sense that he would be hunted and hunted by

09:36his brother.

09:37When came WrestleMania season, his match against Jimmy Uso, his brother, was one of the more

09:42highly anticipated bouts, and unfortunately it just fell flat for a variety of reasons.

09:50One of them being time, they simply didn't get enough time.

09:55The expectations for this brother vs. brother match were very, very high.

10:00Would it be better than Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart at WrestleMania 10?

10:05Since the bell rang, it was far from that.

10:07It circles into one of the bits of criticism that Jey Uso was slowly receiving from a certain

10:13portion of the WWE fanbase.

10:15He didn't get the time, the match wasn't positioned on the card, maybe it should have

10:19been one of the opening bouts of either night, that's also some nitpicking, but a minority

10:24of the WWE fanbase, we should emphasize a minority, were of the opinion that Jey's

10:29in-ring quality wasn't very good.

10:31He doesn't meet the 5 star standard of Dave Meltzer, and where is his moveset being varied

10:38from when he's a tag team performer?

10:41Calm down, shave your neck beard, go touch some grass, okay?

10:45It was an age-old argument of him having a limited moveset and overusing superkicks and

10:50splashes, well, that's a very thin argument because there's probably some other wrestlers

10:54you love that do probably the same thing with different moves, so that's a shallow paper

10:59thin argument.

11:00It was pointed out that he didn't have many bangers, which isn't true at all, come on,

11:06this guy was main eventing Wrestlemania 39 for the first time with a tag team match to

11:10say he couldn't pull off a singles match is just so limited in your thinking, just

11:15come on, just really try and use more than just the selfish impulsive part of your brain,

11:21just all of your brain.

11:22Also we can argue to the same segment of the audience that Jey's in-ring skills are not

11:26a part of the main thing that he does.

11:29There have been plenty of megastars in the past who weren't exactly the definition

11:32of technical in-ring wizards, but they made it big anyway, and they made us care telling

11:38stories that matter.

11:41After losing unfortunately and predictably to Damian Priest in that title shot at the

11:46Backlash event, he replaced Drew McIntyre in the King of the Ring tournament, but once

11:51again faced the roadblock of the chopping Gunther.

11:55The next month he was in a very stacked and impressive Money in the Bank ladder match,

11:59but found himself falling short again.

12:01Now obviously he wasn't the only one, he's had a good relationship with Sami Zayn, his

12:06former honorary ooze in the bloodline, now his buddy once again at Money in the Bank,

12:10he even teased going after the tag team titles with him, but once again we found ourselves

12:16coming back to the same issue with Jey Uso.

12:18Is it best for WWE to utilize him as a tag team specialist and give him another tag team

12:23reign with another tag team partner, or really run with this entire YEET thing and make it

12:29special?

12:30Yeah, they know they have a hot star who the crowd is getting behind and they can't deny

12:37him a spot on television, but the way he's being handled seems to indicate that the main

12:42decision makers within WWE either don't feel he has what it takes to be the top guy,

12:49or there's simply too many other options to choose from.

12:52Yes, WWE has a wealth of very talented, very over-talent to go put in those positions.

13:00The latter is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, but certainly a wealth of riches and a wealth

13:04of problems that WWE is going to face when they produce a show that's on TV 52 weeks

13:10a year.

13:11It's not hard to see WWE's point of view from that perspective.

13:14They have a roster with guys like Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, CM Punk, Gunther, Damian Priest,

13:19Sami Zayn, so many others on Monday Night Raw and names that are rising up the ranks

13:23very fast that could join that class as well.

13:26Would it be the right decision to actually have Jey in that spot instead of someone like

13:30Gunther or Damian Priest?

13:32You can let us know in the comments below.

13:34Jey Uso is falling into a bit of a slippery slope.

13:37The whole YEET thing is still very catchy.

13:40You can see people bouncing their hands in arenas that are sold out coast to coast in

13:45unison and some are claiming though that maybe that's a comedic role?

13:48I don't know if that's exactly the case at all.

13:51But if his momentum is falling flat, it isn't, then he might be slotted back into the tag

13:56team situation and if he gets to go and have tag team banger matches, well then what about

14:01all you people that said he doesn't have banger matches?

14:04You really played out that word banger by the way.

14:06Find another way to say a match is good.

14:09That's all well and good.

14:10A lot of history there, a lot of personal motivation, all of the bloodline family stuff.

14:14We have a ton of content diving into that on our channel.

14:17Go check it out.

14:19But we can't help this feeling that is undeniably present.

14:23Could WWE do a better job with Jey Uso as a solo superstar?

14:29We're not talking Sokoa.

14:31Now Braun Breaker is the WWE Intercontinental Champion.

14:34There's almost no way that someone like Jey is going to prematurely end his reign right

14:40now.

14:41There's simply too much magic behind everything that Braun is doing.

14:44There is some that could say Gunther or the World Heavyweight Championship could be Jey's

14:49next destination and pursuit.

14:51The only solution at this point is simply putting Jey Uso in a very, very important

14:56storyline that doesn't need a championship.

14:58Maybe a personal issue, a grudge if you will.

15:01It's hard to create a hot non-championship storyline without a good backdrop, but actually

15:07this is WWE.

15:08It's not that hard, and you can do it with someone who has the clear ability to project

15:13all of the emotions on screen that Jey has.

15:17Two of the hottest non-title stories right now are Punk and McIntyre, Roman Reigns and

15:22the new Bloodline.

15:24Context is key.

15:25You can make a personal issue and then propel that into a big payoff at a big event with

15:30a big match.

15:31Two men, real issues, ring the bell, let's find out who wins.

15:35For CM Punk and Drew McIntyre, they had a freak injury moment in the Royal Rumble 2024

15:40that could completely play off into a furthering of their storyline.

15:44It did.

15:45For Roman Reigns, we don't need to explain the Oolafala feels and more prestigious things

15:51he's pursuing that aren't a championship.

15:53He's pursuing the legacy of his family and who runs that role as tribal chief.

15:59There's magic there that they can certainly play with.

16:02That's power.

16:03That's different things.

16:04That's consequence.

16:05Jey Uso needs his own consequence to fight for.

16:09There's definitely the opportunity for that to happen when Jey is in a position where

16:14he's hot, he still is, because he needs the story that gets him to that next breakthrough

16:21level that levels him up.

16:24Either that or WWE fans will have to accept the unfortunate reality that Jey Uso may never

16:30be viewed as the top guy, but the guy who's right by him.

16:36We would argue that he deserves a shot at it all in WWE, but WWE needs to navigate that

16:42and how to handle that with him is just beyond only saying yeet.

16:48Yeah, there's more to yeet here than simply just yeet.

16:53And if you're in the camp where you're saying, oh, the yeet thing is getting old

16:56quite fast, you're fickle, and you just live within a Twitter timeline of trends and

17:02memes that grow older and faster than milk sitting in a fridge.

17:06This isn't that.

17:08There are new casual fans that are yeeting right now, and they're not watching this

17:12video and arguing with you in the comments, but that's okay.

17:16Jey Uso is over with them.

17:18Jey Uso is over with the diehard fans arguing in the comments.

17:22But it doesn't matter.

17:23If he's over, where does it go from here?

17:26Does he still have the momentum to get to the next level and be main event Jey Uso again?

17:33Yeah, that's the real yeet of the situation here.

17:37If it doesn't happen, WWE could be risking another major potential single star slipping

17:43through their fingers as the stardust is glimmering off of them.

17:49What do you think?

17:50Let us know in the comments below.

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