Jey Uso reveals what was originally meant to happen in storyline with Roman Reigns
When Roman Reigns returned to WWE and became a bad guy for the first time in about seven years, it was instantly a big deal.
However, not many people expected that his first real programme would be working with his cousin, Jey Uso.
Jey is a legendary tag team wrestler at this stage, but he'd never had a featured singles programme at all prior to feuding with his cousin, much less for a world title.
However, Jey and Reigns' story has been one of the most captivating in WWE and as a result, it's going longer than it was meant to.
Jey Uso explained to Pete Rosenberg and Stat Guy Greg on what the original intention was.
"This was a one and done, supposed to be. They were like ‘this sh*t is fire right here, bro’. I think I was just to get Roman to the next homie but man, you see the storytelling, this is real.
"The feeling’s right there, the promos right there.
"If you watch the match back, the match was basic, what grooved is the damn story and that is the main thing.
"We showing you real emotion, we showing you feeling. You can put the Fiend with Roman, you can put Seth Rollins with Roman, whoever, whatever, whatever top guy they got, put him with Roman, I guaran-damn-tee you, uce, they didn’t pull out emotion, they didn’t pull out real feeling, they didn’t pull out storytelling the way me and uce did that thing.
"Tell me you didn’t feel like you were watching a damn movie, you forgot you were watching wrestling. When I watched it back, I was watching that thing like I wasn’t in it. I was like ‘man, this is good, this is my best work.'"
Jey is absolutely right - it's the best work of his career and many would argue the best work of Roman's, too.
Since returning as heel alongside Paul Heyman, Reigns has oozed the star power WWE always told us he had and Triple H has speculated that Reigns and WWE champion Drew McIntyre may well end up in the same realm as Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.
