The tension and divide right now amongst the Bloodline is continuing to deepen, so we’ll
see what’s going on there and what new stunts Roman Reigns is trying to pull on Jey Uso.
Let’s start things off with The Bloodline and their storyline.
As expected, Roman Reigns was not present at the June 9th edition of Smackdown, but
regardless of his absence, there were still a lot of story progressing moments here for
The Bloodline.
The show kicks off with some words from Paul Heyman, who’s joined to the ring by Solo
Sikoa.
They’re quickly cut off by Jey Uso who makes his way to the ring before Paul Heyman can
say a single word.
Jey Uso addresses his little brother, Solo Sikoa, right away and talks about how attacking
your big brother is something you just don’t do.
Jey says that he doesn’t know if he’s able to forgive Solo Sikoa for that, and tells
Paul Heyman to say whatever he has to say.
And from the second Paul Heyman starts to speak, we can immediately see the route that
Heyman and Roman Reigns are going with here for when it comes to current situation with
The Usos.
A lot of people look at what happened at Night Of Champions as The Usos leaving Roman Reigns’
side, but technically speaking, that wasn’t exactly the case.
It was Jimmy Uso himself who made the decision to attack Roman Reigns and leave his side.
Jey didn’t really agree with that plan and wasn’t happy at all with what transpired
there.
It was just something that happened in the heat of the moment, Jey did walk out with
Jimmy Uso that night, but you can easily tell that Jey didn’t fully agree with the attack
on Roman, and was more shocked than proud of what Jimmy did.
And in the week after that, Jimmy Uso was getting in Roman’s face, telling him he
needs to be fixed and fully confronting him face to face.
But it was Jey who was off to the corner behind Jimmy and once again, he didn’t seem quite
sure about where he stood at.
Jey only spoke up and got involved with that confrontation between Roman and Jimmy to try
and create peace, but that obviously didn’t work.
So that’s just a very important detail to note right now.
Jimmy Uso left The Bloodline at Night Of Champions, Jey did not fully leave.
And it’s something that Roman and Heyman have definitely picked up on, they know that
Jey is a hard spot right now, he’s basically like a Bloodline free agent, and they want
to recruit him back to their side before he fully commits to Jimmy’s side.
That’s why Roman didn’t have Solo Sikoa attack Jey Uso over the last weeks.
Solo has only been attacking Jimmy because Roman wants to be nice to Jey Uso and warm
up to him because he kind of needs him more than ever right now given the current circumstance
with The Bloodline.
If Roman loses Jey, that means he’ll be down to two Bloodline members, and only left
with one layer of protection with Solo Sikoa.
But if Roman is able to get Jey Uso to stay loyal to him, that changes everything and
keeps it pretty close to normal for Roman.
Jimmy will easily lose his battle against Roman Reigns because it’ll be three on one
and there’s just no overcoming that kind of numbers advantage.
And if Jey stays, Roman won’t really feel the impact of losing Jimmy as much because
he would still have Jey and Solo by his side, Roman would definitely be more comfortable
having two family members protecting him rather than one
So that’s what the story is right now and it’s what it’s revolving around.
Everything is focused around the recruitment of Jey Uso.
Will he stay with Roman Reigns or fully leave The Bloodline and commit to joining Jimmy’s
side?
But getting back to Roman and Heyman’s strategy for handling the Jey Uso situation, they’re
turning to their classic tactics of gaslighting and manipulation.
In that opening promo segment from the June 9th edition of Smackdown, Paul Heyman told
Jey Uso that Roman Reigns wants to groom Jey to be the next tribal chief for the family.
Now mind you that this is a conversation that has never come up over the last few years
of The Bloodline’s dominance.
At no time over the last few years did Roman ever entertain the conversation or even the
thought of someone replacing him as the tribal chief.
Every time that conversation was brought up, Roman would even get a bit defensive and aggressive
almost immediately.
So to go from that reaction, to Roman all of sudden being open and comfortable to the
idea of grooming Jey as next tribal chief is most definitely a bit fishy.
And that’s obviously because Roman and Heyman don’t really mean it.
It’s just something they’re saying right now to get inside Jey’s head and try to
keep him loyal to Roman Reigns.
They’re telling him that if he stays, Roman will literally hand over the keys to the kingdom
right over to him and will fully support him, which is something that he would have never
done for Jimmy Uso.
All words of manipulation to try and force Jey Uso to stay with Roman and Solo.
Paul Heyman even tried to sweeten the offer to Jey Uso even more by informing that he
will have a United States title match with Austin Theory later on in the night, which
will give him the opportunity to bring back gold to the bloodline.
Heyman stressed that the tag team of The Usos were over and how Jey Uso will be getting
things done now on his own.
Heyman continued the manipulation by once again calling Jey Uso the right hand man and
the successor of The Bloodline, just trying to plants those words deep into Jey’s head.
Heyman said that if Jey is able to get that all done, that Roman Reigns would pretty much
acknowledge Jey Uso, which once again is a pretty big deal because throughout their successful
run, Roman never really gave much credit or acknowledgment to his family members.
So the fact that he’ll be allegedly ready to do it now all of a sudden for Jey is once
again pretty suspicious, but that’s the pitch that Heyman was giving Jey Uso.
Paul Heyman offers Jey a handshake, but Jey ends up leaving him hanging.
We then see a backstage segment between Paul Heyman and Jey Uso.
Heyman didn’t hold no grudge against Jey for leaving him hanging, Heyman says that
he actually liked it because it was a cliffhanger and makes for good television.
But Heyman says that the next thing Jey needs to put in his hand is his passport and his
suit measurements.
Heyman says that he needs the passport because Jey will be flying to Money In The Bank with
Roman, Heyman, and Solo in the tribal chief’s private jet.
Heyman even slips in a line there about how the jet will one day belong to Jey Uso, just
another way of keeping the gaslighting going.
Heyman says that the suit measurements will be for the June 16th edition Smackdown, where
there will be a triple celebration for Roman returning, Jey winning the title, and a public
acknowledgment from Roman Reigns for Jey Uso.
Jey left Heyman hanging once again and told him that if he’s staying in the bloodline,
that means Heyman is out of the bloodline.
So now we get to the main event match itself.
Everything appears to be going smoothly until the team of Pretty Deadly decides to show
up.
Jimmy comes running out to save Jey Uso from the tag team attack, but Solo jumps in the
ring to once again attack Jimmy Uso.
But Jey holds Solo’s arm back, some pushing and shoving goes on until Jimmy accidentally
kicks Jey after originally aiming for Solo Sikoa.
This whole series of events ends up costing Jey Uso the United States title.
Jimmy tried comforting Jey after the match, but Jey pushes him and away and walks outside
of the ring to where Paul Heyman and Solo Sikoa were standing at, but he doesn’t stop
there either.
Jey decided to keep walking to the back all by himself, implying that he’s not on anyone’s
side right now.
He doesn’t fully stand with his brother and he doesn’t really stand with Roman either.
Jey is a pretty conflicted character that has gone through a lot of trauma over the
last few years, so it’s normal for him to be like this and just need sometime by himself
to gets things right and figure out what he wants to do.
So now the situation is still right where Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman wants it to be
at.
Jey still hasn’t pledged his loyalty to Jimmy’s side, so we should definitely expect
to see Roman and Heyman go even harder with their recruitment of Jey Uso.
Roman is scheduled for the June 16th and June 30th editions of Smackdown, so we’ll get
some more big appearances from Roman before Money In The Bank itself.
The match isn’t confirmed yet, but considering Money In The Bank is a few weeks away and
there’s no real, clear challenger for Roman Reigns, everyone expects Roman’s role at
Money In The Bank to include the Usos in some fashion.
Rather that’s the tag team match of Roman and Solo versus The Usos, or even Roman versus
Jimmy… that appears to be the only two possible routes for Roman in the immediate future.
But Jey’s situation will continue to be interesting to follow.
Everyone expects him to pick Jimmy’s side, which he may very well do, but could there
be another twist down the line that sees Jey Uso return to The Bloodline?
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