Jey Uso came into WrestleMania 41 with an 0-3 record against World Heavyweight Champion Gunther and not a single world championship to his name.
Now, he is leaving as the World Heavyweight Championship.
The match began with Uso and Gunther going back and forth with each Superstar hitting their signature moves.
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In the end, Uso was able to utilize Gunther’s own moves against him, making the Ring General tap out to a sleeper hold.
This was an exciting match, with Jey proving why he is Main Event Jey Uso.
Afterward, Jey was scene celebrating in the ring with his brother, Jimmy Uso. Jimmy held onto the title belt for a moment before handing it back to Jey, seemingly teasing a potential battle between brothers for the championship in the future.
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“You cannot teach what Jey Uso has,” Triple H said on social media. “His connection to our audience, his passion, his charisma…and generations of this business running through his veins.”
You cannot teach what Jey Uso has…His connection to our audience, his passion, his charisma…and generations of this business running through his veins.
Jey @WWEUsos is your new World Heavyweight Champion. Congratulations…and…
🙌YEET🙌 pic.twitter.com/2RHZsPfEJa
— Triple H (@TripleH) April 20, 2025
“Jey [Uso] is your new World Heavyweight Champion. Congratulations…and… YEET!!!!”
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Despite being a match with a bunch of exciting moments and Jey proving he knows more than five moves, the internet still seems to be filled with critics who don’t think he should have gone over tonight. However, WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman completely disagrees with this critique.
“Tell me the criteria, the metric, the analytic, or the economic basis by which this criticism is levied on Jey Uso,” Heyman said to Shak Wrestling.
“When people say, ‘Jey Uso has been kind of a letdown. The reaction when he won the Rumble was good, but then it simmered down.’ Really? By what metric? He’s driving numbers, he’s moving revenue, he’s a commerce facilitator. He’s selling tickets.”
“He is bringing in revenue to a company that is publicly traded and therefore, with that revenue and gross revenue and net revenue, the stock goes up. Where has he not scored? Those who say he has not scored or has been disappointing or is less than he was at the Royal Rumble, do not know what the f— they are talking about,”
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