YEET ruined Jey Uso. It flanderized a character that did once have depth (see, Jey Uso circa Fall 2022-WM 39), and totally simplified his matches for the worse. Jey Uso was one of the better promos in all of American pro wrestling. Spoke with conviction, an often conflicted character carrying the weight of his family on his shoulders, and now he’s a one note Pokémon/hype man that rarely strings together complicated sentences. As a wrestler, he used to have this Jay Briscoe-lite mean streak, great intensity, and was able to get it done between the ropes. YEET turned him into a permanent punch, punch, punch house show-style worker. It’s a shame, he was over as hell before it and didn’t need it.
YEET ruined Jey Uso. It flanderized a character that did once have depth (see, Jey Uso circa Fall 2022-WM 39), and totally simplified his matches for the worse. Jey Uso was one of the better promos in all of American pro wrestling. Spoke with conviction, an often conflicted character carrying the weight of his family on his shoulders, and now he’s a one note Pokémon/hype man that rarely strings together complicated sentences. As a wrestler, he used to have this Jay Briscoe-lite mean streak, great intensity, and was able to get it done between the ropes. YEET turned him into a permanent punch, punch, punch house show-style worker. It’s a shame, he was over as hell before it and didn’t need it.
@BackupHangman If by ruined you mean was made extremely marketable, especially to young children (one of WWEs forever markets). Then yes totally ruined. So ruined that my son loves him and gladly rocks his Yeet shirt and Yeet glasses.
@BackupHangman Very good points, just one tweak: “YEET ruined Jey Uso’s adult fanbase for the sake of gaining a larger kids fanbase.”
@BackupHangman Wow.......even though I slightly disagree, there was a LOT to justify this take! I'm not mad at it.
@BackupHangman Double edged sword. Made him way more popular and marketable but simplified his character down to a crawl. I wish they’d find some middle ground, like having him be serious in blood feuds LIKE WHAT THE JIMMY FEUD SHOULD’VE BEEN
@BackupHangman Absolutely spot on. Jey lost all depth and became a Vince era babyface for kids. A catchphrase, a nickname and that's it.
@BackupHangman I was hoping to see more of the Jey Uso We saw during Fall 2022 - WM 39 during the build for him vs jimmy but nothing much
@BackupHangman I agree with this take i feel he does lean into the “YEET” Stuff too much during his promo so this a W take nun controversial about it 🫡
@BackupHangman Hmm I see where u coming from but idk. Yeet has made him insanely more marketable and gives him crowd participation to another level
@BackupHangman I agree with you on that, I think it has wrecked his character. They need to drop the yeet and only have known as main event Jey Uso
@BackupHangman You really don’t watch wrestling huh