- Hello again everybody, and welcome
to our weekly interview on WWE.com.
My guests this week, the tag team
that will take on Heath Slater and Rhyno
for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles, Sunday
at the No Mercy pay-per-view event
on the WWE Network.
Jimmy and Jey, The Usos.
Welcome guys!
- Thanks for having us man!
- It's so good to be here, it's been a long time.
- Good to see you.
- So much has happened
since the last time we talked.
I wanna start with the word “pride".
That's a word that has been
very, very important to you.
Not only as individuals, not only as brothers,
but your family, your heritage, your careers.
But how can you guys be proud
of what you've been doing lately?
- I see-- we see what you're doing, Cole.
- Cole, you’re lucky we like you a lot, man.
So we're gonna sit here and answer
these little questions you’re throwing at us.
Talking about, you question our pride?
If anything, we've always been proud.
Just cause you don't see the bright colors anymore,
just cause you don't see the warpaint anymore,
just cause you don't see the culture, the tradition anymore,
us out there high-fiving, kissing babies.
We've always been proud.
What you see, what you get right now
sitting in front of you, Cole,
has always been The Usos,
and we've always been proud of each other.
- How can you be proud, though,
of trying to end the careers
of Chad Gable and Jason Jordan?
Jimmy, you tried to maim them.
(chuckles)
- It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, man.
For the first time The Usos are seeing clear.
It's survival of the fittest in there.
Any other team would take us out.
But we finally got it,
for the first time, we got it.
We takin’ them out, man.
Ending their career?
Man, nah.
Yeah you gonna get hurt, now.
They better get with the program,
cause we getting with it right now.
- Does any of this have to do with
what your cousin Roman has been going through?
- You see what happens.
Every Monday man, you see it.
You hear him.
You hear the WWE Universe.
Boo.
Usos finally help the cuz out for one time?
Boo.
Now guess what, man?
You can boo us, you can like us,
but we are about that pride.
But I guarantee, any one of them had trouble,
that they would help their family in need.
Any of 'em.
- Speaking of family.
What does your father Rikishi
think about this new attitude?
- Man, Cole, I guarantee you
our father has got our back 100%.
He's been in this fire before,
so he knows how hot it can get.
Sometimes we just gotta do what we need to do.
- The actions, he might not agree with it,
but it ain't him in there.
It's us, it's The Usos.
- You know, there's been a lot of chatter,
social media, even in the locker room,
that this change in attitude has come about
because The Usos are has-beens.
(laughs)
That the Jimmy and Jey that won all the Tag Team Titles,
that that's no longer, and now
you have to take shortcuts to get it done.
- Shortcuts, man.
You know what, for the first time
I don't care what anybody got to say about The Usos.
"They need to do this", "they’re has-beens",
"they ain't been doing this right",
"they need to change it up".
For the first time, The Usos
are finally doing The Usos,
and for the first time, everybody's talking bout us.
They’re talking.
Whether it's good or bad, they’re talking.
You know how it is.
Matter of fact, you probably don't know how it is.
- Finally, Sunday.
You guys can prove something.
When you take on Heath Slater and Rhyno
for the Tag Team Titles.
What's gonna happen at No Mercy?
- What's gonna happen at No Mercy, Cole,
is you gonna see new
I said new
I said new SmackDown Tag Team Champions.
- And we gonna go out there with something like this, man.
We gonna say "Uce”.
- And they gonna say "Oh".