Jey Uso didn't expect yeet to take off.
Uso's signature catchphrase taken the world of wrestling by storm in recent years, as fans around the world have been yeeting with the Royal Rumble winner on a weekly basis. Furthermore, Uso's yeet merchandise is seemingly very popular, with WWE seemingly releasing new editions of his signature shirt on a weekly basis.
While appearing on a recent edition of Nightcap, Uso was asked about the catchphrase and if he expected it to take off on this level.
"lf you really pay attention, me, my brothers, Roman [Reigns], we’ve kind of been saying that from the jump. If you look at old promos or whatever, uce, you’ll hear it. ‘Yeet. Yeet.’ It’s also a west coast slang. It’s been a slang…I’m a little older than the little homies, [they’re] like, ‘Oh, that’s a meme, a catchphrase where you’re yeeting people.’ But it’s been a slang. The ‘t’ wasn’t even on there. It used to be ‘yee’, like y-e-e-e. Man, I didn’t expect it to take off, though, like that. It just took off. I feel like it took off at the press conference. If you watch the press conference, you know. Then I had Cody saying ‘yeet,’ and then it just took off. I think that was a turning point. But I never thought it would take off the way it do."
Elsewhere in the interview, Jey Uso revealed what John Cena said to him after his WWE Royal Rumble win. Check out his full comments on the matter by clicking here.
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