Jey Uso is coming off the biggest win of his career as he won this year’s WWE Royal Rumble. This win has resulted in him punching his ticket for a World Title at WrestleMania 41.
While speaking on Night Cap, Uso discussed the origin of his Yeet catchphrase. Here are the highlights:
On the origin of it: “If you really pay attention, like, my brothers, Roman, we’ve kind of been saying that from the jump. If you look at old promos or whatever, you’ll hear him. You know, it’s also West Coast slang. It’s been a slang before ‘Yeet’ became a meme. Like, I’m a little older than the little homies who are like, ‘Oh, that’s just a meme, a catchphrase where you’re yeeting people.’ But it’s been slang. The ‘T’ wasn’t even on there. It used to be ‘Ye,’ like, ‘ye e e e e e,’ you know? You said it a little too hard though, you gotta pull it back.”
On not expecting the chant to take off: “But, man, I didn’t expect it to take off like that. It just took off. And I feel like it kind of took off at the press conference. If you watch the press conference, like, you know, if you watch you know and then, Cody saying ‘Ye,’ and then it just took off, man. Like, I think that was a turning point. But I never thought it would take off the way it did.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article, please credit Night Cap with an h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
