Jey Uso welcomes WWE fans to 'yeet era' after WrestleMania 41 win

LAS VEGAS – Jey Uso won the World Heavyweight Championship astatine WrestleMania 41 connected Saturday night, capitalizing connected an arrogant Gunther who had overlooked him for months.

Uso gave Gunther a powerbomb, deed him with 3 frog splashes and past enactment him successful a sleeper hold, forcing the large antheral to pat out. The assemblage astir blew the extortion disconnected Allegiant Stadium arsenic Uso’s manus was raised and the title loop was handed to him.

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Jey Uso celebrates his triumph during WrestleMania 41 astatine Allegiant Stadium connected April 19, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Andrew Timms/WWE via Getty Images)

He celebrated the infinitesimal with the fans who backed him for months, dancing to his entranceway euphony and shouting "yeet" with him during his promos.

"Welcome to the yeet era," Uso told reporters astatine the post-WrestleMania 41 property conference. "I don’t cognize what’s astir to happen. I’m gonna clasp the hate. I’m gonna clasp the love.

"All I cognize is, I’m successful Las Vegas. I got household retired there. I dethroned the ‘Ring General.’ I’m the heavyweight champion."

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Jey Uso points to the WrestleMania 41 sign. (WWE)

Uso celebrated the infinitesimal successful the ringing with his brother, Jimmy. The Usos had been a tag-team duo for years and were a main portion of the Bloodline faction and epic communicative implicit the past 3 years earlier the unchangeable collapsed and respective stars went their abstracted ways.

It’s uncommon to spot a predominantly tag-team wrestler gain a changeable astatine a prestigious WWE title and go the feline the institution chooses to push. A fistful of WWE superstars person done it and Uso couldn’t truly fathom the accomplishment astatine that moment.

"I ever wanted to beryllium a tag-team wrestler with my duplicate brother," helium said. "That’s each it was and then, erstwhile you commencement to advancement and spot antithetic doors open, you privation to instrumentality vantage of those opportunities. It’s been hard. It’s been a agelong road.

Jey Uso celebrates aft winning his World Heavyweight Championship lucifer against Gunther during WrestleMania 41 connected April 20, 2025, successful Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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"In our business, I deliberation everyone’s astute to it. We’re the past of a dying breed. It’s damn-near unrecorded theatrics – 1 shot, 1 take, unrecorded TV. So, I instrumentality pridefulness successful each that."

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