Ji Osu is It is not supposed to be here.
Not Winner Royal Rumble 2025 He does not deserve to be in the World Heavyweight Championship versus Gunther in Wrestlemania 41. This is because he never wanted to be here.
Well, he never wanted to do it alone.
Unlike his contemporaries, JEY USO never dreamed of standing tall in Wrestlemania as a hero. He was always supposed to be alongside his twin partner and partner of the brand team, Jimmy. Regardless of the nine minutes between their birth on August 22, 1985, Ji and Jimmy Osu mainly made everything together. They have accomplished everything that his team can want in WWE, including being the tallest heroes of the Al -Awsa team, performance at the main event of the first brand team in the history of Wrestlemania in Wrestlemania 39, and facing each other in Wrestlemania XL. The idea of doing something alone did not express his mind.
“To be honest, I did not do anything without my brother,” Ji told ESPN. “Every big checkpoint in our lives, her brothers. We have done everything together. Who played football, going to college and having regular jobs to our current functions in WWE. We had our children at the same time.”
As a son of the Famir Rikishi Hall, Jay Oso’s professional wrestling specialization has always been a family relationship. On rare occasions he was not working with his brother, he was surrounded by members The famous Ano’i familyIncluding the cousins of Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatou, the younger brother Solo Sikua, and of course the “rock” Johnson.
At Wrestlemania 41 in Las Vegas, Ji will be in a role that no one could see coming a decade ago when he was in the Tag Team Purgatory team, and fell to Wrestlemania Preshs at best and struggled to get a TV time in the worst case. But after the shock of the world and the elimination of John Cena winning Royal Rumble in February, he got an opportunity to challenge the World Heavyweight Championship and will enter Wrestlemania as one of the largest stars in the list.
“I think it will be one of the most friendly and emotional victories in the history of this industry,” said WWE Pall Heaman Hall of the possibility that Ji will take home heavyweight championship, “because the audience lived through the US profession disturbances.”
Before With a high shave to fade, the middle veil leads with “Yeet” that he wrote in the foreground, white air force panels, sunglasses and entrance, Jimmy and Ji, first appeared in WWE at WWE Night Night Raw on May 24, 2010, with a little taste.
They spent the next eight years on their way to the top of the section. They won the golden gold on several occasions, but they were not seen as a priority in the list, reflected in their landing in the largest WWE event for this year until Wrestlemania 34 in 2018.
“They say the journey is less important than the destination, right?” Jimmy Osu said with a kind of delivery of the tongue in the cheek. “It was a long donkey journey, and it was definitely grinding. … But when you get this damned opportunity, you must escape with it, my brother.”
It was re -invented themselves by merely being themselves, giving up face paint and a sword tau entry in favor of hip -hop. Fans began to embrace Usos, and they found themselves moving in arranging the attackers as a signs team.
“I think we all believed in Jeje and Jimmy for years, before one of them realized for a long time that he has a future regardless of each other,” he said.
Heiman, an old industry warrior for 30 years, realized that JEY was distinguished when Recichi-known as young Fato-brought his sons to WCW’s television recording in July 1989. By the time Heiman returned to WWE in 2012 and re-contacted the twins as an adult, he knew that there was something left to cancel the lock.
“They were the best signs team in the world without controversy,” he said. “It was very easy for them.” So at any time the suggestion there was that they can both be one star, they will look at everyone as if we were crazy because how can you dismantle the best team in the world? None of them really understood the amount of box office [appeal] They had to offer until they were placed in a situation in which they had no choice but self -analysis and the realization of the individual greatness that lived within each of them.
Then everything changed.
JEY USO’s rise began to Stardom, during which he added the “main event” of the title, when the world was closed because of the Covid-19s. Usos was to be held for the triple threat match against the new day and the defense of the heroes John Morrison and Miz. However, it has been reported that MIZ was withdrawn from the match due to the disease, and turned into a rare triple threat in which only one of the USO twins participated.
Jimmy recalls, “I thought our match would be canceled, but they just finished, making it a single match threatening a triple,” Jimmy recalls. This was the first time that he and his brother did not work with Wrestlemania together. “We did the paper, rock, scissors to find out who will end up in the match. I won … then I hurt my knee.”
ACL was injured on Jimmy and forced Ji to go alone for the first time in his career.
Without Jimmy, Ji entered a story with his cousin Roman Reigns, who ended up laying the foundation for the BloodLine story that took control of WWE TV over the next four years. On two occasions of the WWE Universal, which has been in the heartfelt matches that have seen the twins begin to reach his individual star.
“This was the first time that I had to admire my brother,” Jimmy said. “I had to sit on my back and extinguish my mind side in the ring. I was like,” to hell with this, I will be a fan. “
Jimmy returned from the injury and joined his brother in the blood line in the spring of 2021. By that time, Ji underwent a complete re -invention and was no longer seen as one of the USO twins. Under the guardianship of Reigns and Heyman, one of the greatest minds at work, JEY flourished in a star itself.
“Everything about the blood line was a cooperative effort, with goals that made everyone stand out alone with his unique characters,” he said. “Fans now know the difference between Ji and Jimmy.
Whenever he is asked about his brother, Jimmy expresses a smile and uses words “we” instead of “he” or “I.”
“I am there with him,” he said. “Here we are living in the dream. The first signs team in the main event in Wrestlemania. They told us that this is not possible. Then we faced each other in Wrestlemania. This is crazy. You are now talking about cherry in the introduction to my brother? Come, man. Things like this do not happen in the world of twins.
“I will tell you one thing: if I don’t get hurt, I don’t think we will have the opportunity to divide and become Jimmy and Ji.
The best way To document professional wrestler growth is through the video game lens, although this may seem strange.
JEY USO first appeared in WWE 2K13 as a downloadable character after the game released with a total classification of 81, linked to the least -ranked male wrestler in the game. In WWE 2K25, the 90 comprehensive JEY rating is associated with active wrestlers, behind the likes of Reigns, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins and CM Punk. It is easily recognized as one of the largest jumps to the character in the privilege.
“The Jey Uso’s ascension began inside the company and in our game slowly as a climb like Nasdaq in the best possible way,” Brian Williams, WWE 2K playing producer, told ESPN. “He and his brother were basically the same as the game’s model for years-from the classifications to the move groups. But during the BloodLine era, we needed to create a completely different model for action that was mainly a new performance in the privilege.”
Williams has been part of the WWE 2K franchise development team since 2005 and had a heavy hand in classifications and characters design. As a professional wrestling lover, Williams is proud to develop the Jey USO character, which includes every aspect of his personality, including his entrance.
“It is a fire because now I should not create myself and my highest statistics,” said Ji, who almost destroyed the wwe 2K25.
Make his growth in the video game developed for individual wrestler feels real. But there was nothing real like his victory in Royal Rumble after losing to Gunther in the main event on Saturday night in the previous week.
The fact that he was exploited to win, he did not produce until he wandered early in the day when he was left in the room with Logan Paul in John Cena. Regardless of his colleagues in the ring, no one knows that he will win.
“I wanted my father’s shock,” said Gi. “He was very emotional when he saw him because he knows the meaning of this spot for me. He was so long about this work that he did not think nothing could shock him. But that did that.”
Ji joined the rock, Roman Reigns and his uncle, the late Yokuzona, as a fourth member of the Ano’i family wins the royal destruction.
We have seen huge consuming stories crowned in Wrestlemania before. Ri Mysterio picks up the WWE Championship at Wrestlemania 22, Daniel Brian challenges difficulties to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion at Wrestlemania 30, and Kofi Kingson’s emotional ride to the Brian’s defeat at the WWE Championship in Wrestlemania 35.
What separates Ji from those before him is to look at them as individual stars for life awaiting their role. Ji did not ask, he got one.
“I never thought I would be a better individual star,” said Ji, still shaking his head in disbelief. “Be the best mark team with my brother was the first goal, but I am now going from the main event to the main event. It was an amendment without my brother next to me, and I am now feeling well as an individual wrestler.”
Although he will be alone against Gunther in Wrestlemania 41, he said he would embrace the opportunity and hold his family’s legacy in the ring.
“I hear the rejectionists,” said Ji. “They say I do not deserve this opportunity and I cannot win, but it took 15 years to get here and now I have one shot after my number has been called and I will answer a curse call … then we will go with the entire family, Vigas style.”
