Jey Uso Says He Didn’t Expect ‘Yeet’ To Take Off The Way It Has

In an interview with Nightcap (via Fightful), Jey Uso said that he didn’t expect his catchphrase ‘Yeet’ to take off with WWE fans the way that it has. Uso won the Royal Rumble last week and will now challenge for a World title at Wrestlemania.

He said: “lf you really pay attention, me, my brothers, Roman [Reigns], we’ve kind of been saying that from the jump. If you look at old promos or whatever, uce, you’ll hear it. ‘Yeet. Yeet.’ It’s also a west coast slang. It’s been a slang…I’m a little older than the little homies, [they’re] like, ‘Oh, that’s a meme, a catchphrase where you’re yeeting people.’ But it’s been a slang. The ‘t’ wasn’t even on there. It used to be ‘yee’, like y-e-e-e. Man, I didn’t expect it to take off, though, like that. It just took off. I feel like it took off at the press conference. If you watch the press conference, you know. Then I had Cody saying ‘yeet,’ and then it just took off. I think that was a turning point. But I never thought it would take off the way it do.“