Ahead of his Universal Championship match against Roman Reigns during last night's Clash of Champions PPV, Jey Uso caught up with TalkSport's Alex McCarthy to discuss his and Jimmy's heel turn in 2016 after being babyfaces pretty much their entire careers up until that point.
"So we finally went to the big man [Vince McMahon] and we said can we do this?" Jey said of the heel turn that began when they started helping the then unpopular Roman. "And at first he was against it. It took a couple tries from us to convince him and then it was like, hell yeah. ‘You want to go out there with the outfits? This is what you want to do, right?’ We were like ‘yup, it’s time.’"
Then it’s like ‘Ok, the balls in your court.’ So we’re either going to hit it on the head, uce, or we’re in the back," Jey contined. "We’re going to drown if this don’t work! And then they wanted us to keep the face paint with the heel turn. And we didn’t want that. There was no way."
The heel turn was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to The Usos, especially as their gimmick was growing stale and fans had become bored of what they were doing in the ring as a result. With a new attitude and fresh look, they successfully managed to stay atop the tag team division in the years that followed.
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