The Bloodline’s cracks have officially opened up and appear to be beyond repair, so let’s
see what’s new there
Let’s start off with the May 26th edition of Smackdown
It was another big edition of Smackdown that included lots of progression for The Bloodline’s
cracks
Starting with The Bloodline’s backstage segment
Jimmy Uso stands up and Roman Reigns orders him to sit back down, but considering how
fed up Jimmy has become with Roman over the last few weeks, Jimmy openly disobeys Roman’s
order and continues to stand up and show no signs of even thinking about sitting down
After Jimmy continues to disobey Roman’s orders multiple times, Roman Reigns starts
to stand up to confront Jimmy
And another important detail to pay attention to in this specific moment is Jey Uso
Jey had his head in his hands and is absolutely stressing out about how Jimmy is handling
this situation
No one hates Roman’s guts more than Jey, but even Jey knows that how Jimmy is handling
the situation with Roman is not exactly ideal
Jey tried taking that same aggressive approach towards Roman back in 2020 and we all know
where that got him… it got him beat up both mentally and physically, and forced to fall
in line and serve Roman
So Jey is in the background just cringing at how Jimmy is handling things with Roman
because he’s been here before, he knows what happens to someone who openly disrespects
Roman like that
But Roman gets in Jimmy’s face and tells him to do something if he wants to be a tough
guy and stand up
Roman says that he whooped Jimmy when they were kids and how he’ll whoop him again
in current day
Roman says that Jimmy will respect, obey, and acknowledge him before kicking Jimmy out
of the locker-room
Jey gets in the way of the stare-down between Roman and Jimmy and walks Jimmy out of the
room
Then we get to the main event segment between The Bloodline and Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
Now maybe it was manipulation or maybe they truly meant it, but Kevin and Sami spend some
time telling The Usos that The Bloodline will be nothing without the Usos
Kevin and Sami mention how Jimmy and Jey are the true pillars and backbone of The Bloodline
Kevin even says that if Roman is the head of the table, that Jimmy and Jey are the heart
of the table
So absolute high praise from Kevin and Sami on Jimmy and Jey
Now was that gaslighting to further the cracks in The Bloodline and get into Jimmy and Jey’s
mind, or did Kevin and Sami truly mean all that?
You can make a good argument for both sides
But regardless of if it was part of the plan or not, it worked, Jimmy gets all heated up
and calls himself the tribal chief, which makes Roman Reigns come out
Roman gets into the ring and instantly gets in the face of both Jimmy and Jey
Roman stares them both down and snatches the mics out of the hands and throws them away
Sami makes a comment that The Bloodline is falling apart and how it’s all Roman’s
fault
A brawl breaks out that ends with The Bloodline standing tall, but the tension is still there
and growing
Jimmy and Jey both pick up pairs of the undisputed tag team titles and hold them in their hands
Roman asks for the titles to be placed in his hands and Jey instantly hands the pair
he was holding over to him
But when Roman asks Jimmy for the pair of titles he was holding, Jimmy hesitates and
refuses to hand the titles over to Roman
It’s Jey who has to basically rip the titles out of Jimmy’s hands and hand them over
to Roman
And that closing shot of Smackdown followed the number one storytelling rule of: “Show,
Don’t Tell” perfectly
We see Jimmy off to the corner, refusing to take part in throwing up the one and posing
with The Bloodline because he’s obviously not in a happy mood with Roman
But then over to the left side of the ring, we see Solo and Jey posing with Roman, while
Roman holds up all four tag team titles
And just Roman holding up all four titles tells us so much about where he’s at right
now as a character as well
He’s losing control of The Bloodline, everything is slipping out of his hands, but he refuses
to change and continues to get drunk with power
Roman holds all four titles up, he doesn’t even give Solo Sikoa, his tag team partner,
a pair of titles to pose with
Roman just wants all the credit, power, and gold all to himself that he even discredits
and basically disrespects Solo Sikoa in the process
Does Solo Sikoa notice that he’s being disrespected by Roman Reigns or is he too brainwashed right
now to notice?
That can be a whole other situation for down the line, but it seems like Solo doesn’t
mind it for the time being
And then we get to the night of champions tag team titles match itself
Roman drops a line during the match that reinforces that closing shot of Smackdown that happened
the night before
Roman Reigns says that he will become the tag team champions, not “we”, not “me
and solo”… he just says “I” will become the tag team champions
Sort of takes you back to the days of Kane and Daniel Bryan, where they both wanted to
be individually known as the tag team champions
Well Roman Reigns was basically saying the same thing here, ignoring Solo’s existence,
and just talking about how he, himself wanted to become the tag team champions
When things start looking bad for Roman and Solo, plus with the ref going down, The Usos
come out and try to give Roman and Solo the advantage
But during the ambush attack, The Usos accidentally super kick Solo Sikoa
And again, The Usos just having their recent strain of bad luck…
Roman gets up right in the neck of time to see The Usos accidentally kicking Solo Sikoa
So Roman comes in and starts pushing and shoving Jimmy and Jey all over the ring, telling them
that once again, no one asked them to come out here and help
Roman turns around from scolding Jey and gets get super-kicked in the face by Jimmy
Jey is not happy at the sight of what his brother just did and could already start to
imagine the consequences that are coming their way, so he instantly starts to panic
But Jimmy comforts Jey and tells him he was protecting him, how he’ll never left anything
bad happen to him, how he’s his brother and not Roman
Jimmy even says that he’s doing what Jey should’ve done a long time ago
And that’s such a great line by Jimmy because everyone figured that Jey does have some inner
conflict thinking about how Roman’s power went out of control basically because Jey
allowed it to
Jey had the opportunity several years ago to keep fighting back against roman and neutralize
some of that power, but instead of trying to take out Roman, Jey basically only made
Roman stronger
So everyone feels like that’s a big constant regret that Jey has been living with
Jey felt it at Royal Rumble when Sami Zayn attacked Roman, and he felt it now when Jimmy
attacked Roman
Jey feels responsible and feels like he should’ve been the one to do that to Roman a long time
ago, so that Sami and Jimmy never would’ve been in harms way and never been put in that
position
Jey can even be seen calling out to Roman Reigns during the closing moments of night
of champions by calling Roman his real name of “Joe”
So Jey probably had a different plan and didn’t want things to go down like this, but thanks
to his brother’s actions, Jey no longer has a choice, he has to stand on his twin
brother’s side
It’s interesting that both brothers were trying to protect each other in different
ways
Jey was constantly trying to defuse the tension between Jimmy and Roman as a way to protect
his brother
That’s why Jey apologized on behalf of both of them, that’s why he would walk Jimmy
out of the locker-room, and that’s why he handed over the tag team titles to Roman on
the May 26th edition of Smackdown… it was all ways of protecting Jimmy
And on the flip-side, Jimmy kicked Roman at night of champions in order to protect Jey,
so both brothers were protecting each other, but in much different ways
It’s clear that everything is now setting up towards Jimmy and Jey versus Roman and
Solo in a tag team match
And for the first in forever, it may be a bloodline match doesn’t consist of outside
interference since all members will be in the match and will be standing in separate
corners
Another fan theory that’s going around is if Roman Reigns will find either more family
members or other WWE superstars that are loyal to him to come and try to replace The Usos
within The Bloodline
Obviously, the replacements will be no where near the level of The Usos, but desperate
times call for desperate measures…
Roman Reigns needs more then just Solo Sikoa by his side, he needs that number advantage
so him trying to replace the Usos could be a route to go in, but ultimately, that plan
will fail because who ever he finds to replace The Usos won’t fill in those shoes
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