Whether you like them or not, you have to admit that 2017 has been a good year for The Usos. The brothers have taken on all comers, and they’re the current SmackDown Tag Team Champions.
For several months The Usos found themselves in a feud with The New Day, and the rivalry has received a lot of praise from the fans. Together the teams put on some of the best matches of 2017, but they weren’t featured on the main card for SummerSlam this year.
Jimmy and Jey recently spoke to WWE.com, and they admitted that getting moved to the kickoff show felt like a “slap to all our faces.”
“Hell yeah, we felt slighted. You grind to get on these shows. One of the biggest pay-per-views of the year is SummerSlam. We had one of the hottest rivalries of the year with New Day going into SummerSlam. So to be put on the Kickoff was a slap to all our faces. Me, my brother and The New Day. We did our thing. To be on a Kickoff at 5 [p.m.], and the fans aren’t even in their seat? Our mindset is, we’re gonna make sure this will be the hardest match to follow. And yeah, they messed up by putting us on first, but we ain’t got no choice but to do it. But to make this match a hell of a tag team match, to make this match a hell of a title match, to make this match a hell of a match period … we almost hurt the show, you know what I’m saying?”
Even though they felt that getting put on the kickoff show was a slap in the face, The Usos have high hopes for WrestleMania, and they’re hoping to make the main card in 2018.
“Always Kickoff. Always get there, always get right there but never on there. I feel like we’re doing everything we’re supposed to do and then some. There’s gonna be a time when you can’t hold us back no more. There’s gonna come a time people are gonna want The Usos. Put us on the big stage man, the main card, the WrestleMania card we deserve to be on. You know what hurt me most? I’m sitting back last year watching WrestleMania. I see three, four other tag teams in the match. Me and my brother been here the longest. Been putting in work for the longest. All of a sudden I see a tag team that ain’t even a real tag team. This other tag team just got here. What’s the deal with that? I don’t know, and I really don’t care. Why? Because I know they can’t stop us. The cream rises to the top, Uce. And me and my brother? We’re the cream.”
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