Jey Uso will be among headliners on Wrestlemania 41 after winning 2025 Royal Rumble and challenging Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship.
USO Eliminated John Cena to become the winner of the Marquee event, playing a critical role on the road to Wrestlemania. It will also be a chance of redemption for USO as he was almost able to attach Gunther for the title of Saturday evening’s main event last month.
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WWE SUPERSTAR JEY USO GETS FANCE BELOW HIS ENTRY. (Dylan Azari/Special to Telegram & Gazette/USA Today Network)
WWE legend Booker T responded to USO’s victory in an interview with Pakinomist Digital. He said that USO, and his brother, Jimmy, were one of the athletes who came to the gym early, stayed late and did everything anyone asked for him. For him it was special to see the uso win rumble.
“And then I saw Jey Uso make his meteoric climb from tag-team wrestling to singles wrestling,” said Booker T, who spoke with Pakinomist Digital prior to the debut of “WWE Legends and Future Greats.” “Don’t speculate how far this thing will go, but let me go out here and do it and do it to the best of your ability. Let me go out here give 100% every time they give me a task. Every time they put the microphone In front of me, let me go out here and try to make the fans feel something.
“To watch Jey go out there and win the Royal Rumble, it certainly puts him in the position where the company trusts him. Wouldn’t have won that rumble if the company doesn’t trust him. He has that title now you know.
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Jey Uso pushes John Cena out of the ring, February 1, 2025, under WWE Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/Indystar/USA Today Network via Imag images)
Cena deployed herself in men’s elimination chamber match in March.
The winner of this match gets a shot at the undisputed WWE championship against Cody Rhodes when the USO already chose Gunther. Cena made it clear on the Post Rumble press conference that he used his veteran card to put himself in the fight without having to review the qualification.
Booker T said it showed him that Cena is “not done” with pro wrestling yet.
However, he gave Cena his props to give the USO veteran rub that guys had given him in the past.
“However, John Cena did the right thing,” he told Pakinomist Digital. “John Cena went out there and did the right thing for the right guy and he knew exactly what he was [doing]; Don’t think it happened accidentally or something or happened differently than John Cena wanted it to happen.
“John Cena, Once Upon A Time, was the same child as Jey Uso who needed a rub that needed someone to believe him and give him a shot. John Cena is the perfect person for that job. “
Booker T responds after throwing a ceremonial first pitch before a game between Houston Astros and Texas Rangers at Minute Maid Park in Houston in 2019. (Troy Taormina-usa Today Sports)
Wrestlemania 41 is set to April 19-20 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
