About the usos

The Usos (born August 22, 1985) are a Samoan American professional wrestling tag team consisting of real-life twin brothers Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso , who appear in WWE. The pair were previously managed by Tamina Snuka and Jimmy's real life wife, Naomi .
Since joining the main WWE roster in 2012, they are two-time WWE Tag Team Champions and two-time Tag Team of the Year Slammy Award winners (2014 and 2015). While in WWE's developmental system, they were one-time FCW Florida Tag Team Champions .
Jimmy (real name Jonathan Solofa Fatu ) and Jey (real name Joshua Samuel Fatu ) are members of the renowned Anoa'i family specifically the sons of WWE Hall of Famer
Solofa "Rikishi" Fatu , nephews of The Tonga Kid , Umaga , Roman Reigns , Rosey, The Rock , and the late Yokozuna .
Professional wrestling career
World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE
Florida Championship Wrestling (2009–2010)
Jimmy Uso (Jonathan Fatu) appeared at the
Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) television tapings on November 5, accompanying Donny Marlow to the ring. [8] Jimmy also appeared in a dark match prior to the FCW television tapings on November 19, defeating Titus O'Neill . [9]
The Uso Brothers began 2010 by defeating The Rotundo Brothers (Duke and Bo ) on January 14. [10] In a clash of the generational wrestlers on February 18, The Rotundo Brothers teamed up with Wes Brisco to defeat The Usos and Donny Marlow. [11] They continued their association with Marlow at the television tapings on February 25, when he accompanied them to ringside for a victory against Titus O'Neill and Big E. Langston.[12] In March they were joined by Sarona Snuka, who began acting as their manager and on March 13, The Usos defeated The Fortunate Sons ( Joe Hennig and
Brett DiBiase ) to win the FCW Florida Tag Team Championship. [13][14][15] They made their first title defense at the March 18 television tapings by defeating The Dudebusters ( Trent Baretta and Caylen Croft ) to retain. [16] They went on to successfully defend the championship against
Percy Watson and Darren Young , Hunico and
Tito Nieves , Skip Sheffield and Darren Young, and The Dudebusters, who they defeated by
disqualification when Tamina pulled the referee out of the ring to stop him from counting the
pinfall .[17][18][19][20] On June 3, The Usos lost the Florida Tag Team Championship to "Los Aviadores" (Hunico and Dos Equis ). [13]
[21]
Feud with The Hart Dynasty (2010–2011)
The Usos with Tamina in September 2010.
On the May 24, 2010 episode of Raw , The Usos and Tamina made their debut as heels by attacking the Unified Tag Team Champions ,
The Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd , David Hart Smith , and Natalya ) [22][23] The following week, Raw General Manager Bret Hart stated that he had signed them to contracts. That night, the trio cut a promo , stating that they were looking for respect for their families. They were interrupted and attacked by The Hart Dynasty, who were seeking revenge for the surprise attack the previous week. [24] The Usos attempted to attack The Hart Dynasty again on the June 7 episode of Raw , but The Harts were ready and gained the upper hand.
[25] The Usos made their in-ring debut for the brand on the June 17 episode of Superstars, defeating Goldust and Mark Henry . [26] Three days later they made their pay-per-view debut by losing to The Hart Dynasty in a six-person
mixed tag team match at Fatal 4-Way .[27] The Usos were scheduled to face The Hart Dynasty on the June 28 episode of Raw , but the match never started as The Usos instead attacked The Harts when they were entering the ring. [28] The Usos defeated The Hart Dynasty for the first time in a six-person mixed tag team match on the July 12 episode of Raw when Jey pinned Smith. [29] The Usos challenged The Harts for the Unified Tag Team Championship at the
Money in the Bank pay-per-view, but were unsuccessful. [30] On the July 26 episode of
Raw , Jey Uso went against Randy Orton in his first singles match on the brand in a losing effort. They received another shot for the Tag Team Championship at Night of Champions in a
Tag Team Turmoil match , where they eliminated both The Hart Dynasty and the team of Vladimir Kozlov and Santino Marella before being eliminated by Mark Henry and Evan Bourne . On the December 6 episode of Raw , The Usos were in a fatal four way tag match and were eliminated, but Tamina stayed in the corner of Marella and Kozlov upon their winning of the WWE Tag Team Championship; as a result, she turned face and left The Usos.
SmackDown and NXT (2011–2013)
On April 26, 2011, both Usos were drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2011 Supplemental Draft .[31] On the June 2 episode of Superstars, The Usos turned face when they competed against The Corre ( Justin Gabriel and
Heath Slater ) in a losing effort. [32] Throughout June 2011, The Usos continued to exchange victories with Gabriel and Slater in tag team matches, while managing to defeat them in two six-man tag matches while partnering once with Ezekiel Jackson and once with Trent Barreta .[33] As of the June 24 episode of
SmackDown , The Usos have been performing the Siva Tau , a traditional Samoan war dance, as part of their ring entrance, using the dance to display their strength and energize themselves. [34][35] On the July 29 episode of
SmackDown , The Usos challenged David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty for the WWE Tag Team Titles, but were defeated. [36]
The Usos then began appearing on the fifth season of NXT in September 2011, by delivering post-match attacks on the team of
Darren Young and JTG .[37] The Usos then went on to defeat Young and JTG on the September 27 episode of NXT Redemption . However, just like how The Usos debuted on NXT, they were attacked after their win by another debuting tag team, Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks,[38] and The Usos were defeated by Hawkins and Reks the next week. In the following months and into 2012, The Usos exchanged wins with Hawkins and Reks on NXT, while continually losing to Primo and Epico on SmackDown. [39] They also feuded with JTG , who had become Tamina's boyfriend.
[40] In March 2012, The Usos began a feud with Darren Young and Titus O'Neil , after they mocked The Uso's pre-match Siva Tau. [41] Although The Usos beat Young and O'Neil in tag team matches, they were continually defeated in singles matches. [42] On the final episode of the fifth season of NXT on June 13, The Usos defeated Johnny Curtis and Michael McGillicutty .[43]
The Usos then started a feud with The Ascension ( Conor O'Brian and Kenneth Cameron ) on the August 15 episode of NXT , with a match between the two tag teams ending in the Ascension being disqualified; the Ascension then conducted a post-match attack on The Usos. [44] On the August 29 episode of
NXT , The Usos called out the Ascension, but the Ascension ambushed The Usos and again delivered a beatdown. [45] On the September 5 episode of NXT , the Ascension defeated The Usos. [46] The Usos then teamed with Richie Steamboat to lose to The Ascension and
Kassius Ohno on the October 17 episode of
NXT .[47] The Usos' feud with the Ascension was cut short when Cameron was released from WWE.[48]
The Usos at the 2012 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony
At WrestleMania XXVIII , The Usos unsuccessfully challenged for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a triple threat dark match against champions Primo and Epico and
Tyson Kidd and Justin Gabriel when the defending champions retained their titles. [49] At No Way Out, The Usos competed with Primo and Epico, Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd, and The Prime Time Players in a Fatal-4-Way Tag Team match to determine the Number 1 contenders for the WWE Tag Team Champions and were unsuccessful. [50] On the July 16 episode of Raw, The Usos made an appearance dancing with their father, Rikishi, after Rikishi made a "Blast from the Past" return defeating Heath Slater. [49] On the September 7 episode of SmackDown , The Usos were unsuccessful in winning a Triple Threat Tag Team match for No. 1 contendership for the WWE Tag Team titles against The Prime Time Players, and Primo and Epico.
The Uso's feuded with The Prime Time Players much throughout 2012, following the teams loss at No Way Out, The Prime Time Players then went on to Defeat the Usos in a rematch on the June 22nd episode of SmackDown. They were also defeated in a triple threat tag team match by The Prime Time Players on the September 4th taping of SmackDown, which also featured the Colons'. The Usos were again defeated by the Prime Time Players on the September 18th episode of Superstars, thus ending the feud. During this period the Usos did not go winless, the duo went on to pick up wins over Camacho & Hunico on a June 26 Superstars taping, while picking up a win the following week over Derrick Bateman & Johnny Curtis. The August 18th episode of Superstars also saw The Usos pick up a victory this time defeating Michael McGillicutty & Johnny Curtis. The Uso's & The Prime Time Players rivalry re-ignited after The Usos got their first victory over the team during a Saturday Morning Slam Taping on October 16. The Uso's then defeated The Prime Time players the following week during a taping of Superstars, on the December 18th episode of Monday Night Raw, The Usos first appearance on the A List show for a few months, the duo picked up a win in a 12-man tag team match, which featured the Prime Time Players on the opposing team. The December 19th taping of SmackDown, December 29 taping of Superstars, the January 15th episode of Main Event & the January 21st episode of Superstars saw the Usos pick up consecutive victories of the Prime Time Players, thus ending the feud once again. The following months saw the pair feud with the likes of the Rhodes Scholars, Mark Henry, The Colons', 3MB & Tons of Funk.
WWE Tag Team Champions (2013–2015)
On the June 3 episode of Raw , The Usos began to use face paint similar to their deceased uncle
Eddie Fatu , as a means of further highlighting their Samoan culture. That same night, they defeated The Prime Time Players, which began the start of a winning streak. [51] On the June 5 episode of Main Event , they defeated Team Rhodes Scholars to continue their winning streak. [52] On the June 24 episode of Raw , the Usos defeated Tons of Funk and 3MB ( Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal ) to be number one contenders for Tag Team Championship and would receive their title match at Money in the Bank. [53] They began feuding with former champions, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns of
The Shield . That week on SmackDown they teamed with Christian to a victory over The Shield. However, the following week on Raw they lost to them. On the July 12 episode of
SmackDown , Seth Rollins beat Jey Uso. The Usos challenged Rollins and Reigns for the
WWE Tag Team Championships at Money in the Bank, but were unsuccessful. On July 19 episode of SmackDown, The Usos was attacked by The Shield but they were saved by Mark Henry . The Usos began an alliance with Henry. The same happened the next week on Raw. The following week they teamed to Henry in a losing effort to The Shield. The next week on
Raw they were defeated by Jack Swagger and
Antonio Cesaro ('The Real Americans'). That same week on Main Event they teamed with Henry to face The Shield but were again defeated. The next week on Raw they defeated Swagger and Cesaro.
The Usos in November 2013.
The Usos competed in a Tag Team Turmoil match during the Night Of Champions Kickoff to determine The Shield's opponents in the Tag Team Championship match later that night, but were unsuccessful as they were eliminated by The Real Americans. However, the next night on Raw The Usos were victorious over The Real Americans and Tons Of Funk in a triple-threat tag team elimination match to once again become number one contenders for The Shield's championships. Over the following weeks The Usos helped Daniel Bryan from getting assaulted by The Shield. This resulted in The Usos being put into an 11-on-3 Elimination Gauntlet match in which neither of them were eliminated and the Jey became the first superstar to pin Roman Reigns in WWE. The Usos participated in a Triple threat tag team match against the team of Goldust &
Cody Rhodes and The Shield for WWE Tag Team Championship at the Hell in a Cell pay per view, which they failed to win. [54]
The Usos were involved in the traditional Survivor Series elimination match at Survivor Series , teaming with Rey Mysterio, Cody Rhodes and Goldust in a losing effort against
The Real Americans and The Shield . The Usos would then begin a brief feud with The Wyatt Family in early 2014, teaming with Mysterio to defeat Luke Harper, Daniel Bryan and Erick Rowan in a six-man tag match on the January 6 episode of Raw , before defeating Bryan and
Bray Wyatt in a steel cage match in the main event the following week. A week later, they defeated Harper and Rowan in a tag team match, with the help of Bryan, who attacked
Bray Wyatt at ringside after Bryan left the family. At the beginning of 2014, The Usos would go on a winning streak and began to demand a Tag Team Championship match from
The New Age Outlaws .
On the edition of February 14, 2014 of
SmackDown , The Usos along with Cody Rhodes and Goldust defeated the Outlaws and Ryback and Curtis Axel when Jimmy Uso pinned Road Dogg . The Usos received a tag title shot at the
Elimination Chamber PPV against the Outlaws but were once again unsuccessful. After quickly defeating the Outlaws in a non-title match the previous week, The Usos received another title match on the March 3 episode of Raw against the Outlaws, and The Usos were finally successful, winning the titles, their first ones in WWE. The next night on Main Event, The Usos would successfully defend their titles against
Los Matadores . On the WrestleMania XXX pre-show, The Usos successfully defended their titles in a Fatal Four Way Elimination match against Ryback and Curtis Axel, The Real Americans , and Los Matadores . The next night on Raw , The Usos again defended the titles against the team of Batista and Randy Orton . Both teams were counted out and The Usos were assaulted by Orton and Batista outside the ring. The Usos then resumed a rivalry with
The Wyatt Family, thus allying with John Cena . At Payback ; they went as far as to sacrifice themselves through tables to incapacitate Harper and Rowan, to ensure Cena with a victory against Bray Wyatt in a Last Man Standing Match. The Usos successfully retained the championships against Harper and Rowan at Money in the Bank and Battleground . The Usos defeated RybAxel in a match on the edition of July 25, 2014 of Smackdown. On Raw , The Usos teamed up with Dolph Ziggler in a six-man tag team match against RybAxel and
The Miz which they won. The following night, on Main Event , The Usos picked up another win against Rybaxel. On the August 18 Raw , Goldust and Stardust defeated The Usos in a non-title match, which sets up a title match between the two teams a week later. Gold and Stardust would defeat via countout, thus the Usos retaining the championships. Goldust then demanded a rematch before he and Stardust attacked The Usos, thinking Jey, who has hurt his left leg in the match, would intentionally count out to retain. The Usos then dropped the titles to Goldust and Stardust at
Night of Champions , ending their reign at 202 days. [55] They earned their rematch on
Smackdown but failed to regain it Then other a rematch on Raw and failed regain again. On the November 7 edition of SmackDown , The Usos were given a title match against Goldust and Stardust in a steel cage, but failed to recapture the titles. On the December 1 episode of Raw,
The Miz's teammate and stunt double Damien Mizdow won the match against Fernando , before Jimmy Uso came down and slaps The Miz's face and saying to The Miz about his real life wife Naomi: 'Stay away from my wife!' In mid December the duo earned the Tag Team of the year Slammy Award.
The Usos with Naomi making their entrance to the ring at the
WrestleMania 31 pre-show in March 2015.
On the December 29 edition of Raw , The Usos recaptured the titles from The Miz and Damien Mizdow after feuding with them over Naomi's entertainment opportunities. On the January 9 episode of SmackDown , The Authority forced The Usos to defend their WWE Tag Team Championships against The Miz and Damien Mizdow and Gold and Stardust , despite many "close calls", Jimmy and Jey managed to retain their WWE Tag Team Championships. On February 22, at Fastlane , they lost the titles to
Tyson Kidd and Cesaro. [56] Despite getting a rematch the next night on Raw , The Usos did not regain the titles due to Natalya interfering for a DQ win. At the March 9 SmackDown tapings, Jey Uso suffered a serious shoulder injury, the extent of which was unknown. Then, for the third time in four years, on the WrestleMania pre-show, they competed in the fatal-four way tag team match; however, Jey re-injured his shoulder at the hands of Cesaro. Jimmy then competed in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, but was eliminated by
Big Show.
Various feuds (2015–present)
Jey suffered an anterior shoulder dislocation on the left arm and would be out for about six months, putting their team on hiatus. On the April 18 episode of Main Event , Jimmy Uso defeated Xavier Woods . Jimmy has been doing commentary while Jey was out with the injury. On the May 12 episode of Main Event , Jimmy Uso teamed with Zack Ryder to take on Erick Rowan and Luke Harper , but Uso and Ryder were unsuccessful.
Jimmy Uso returned to action on September 10, 2015 episode of SmackDown , teaming with
Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose in a six-man tag team against The New Day (Big E , Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods). They won via disqualification after Jimmy was attacked by the Wyatt Family ( Bray Wyatt , Luke Harper and
Braun Strowman ). After another month of being sidelined, Jimmy was confronted by Kevin Owens on the October 6 episode of Main Event which led to a match, with Owens walking out victorious.
The Usos came back on the November 2 episode of Raw as a surprise return to team up with Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Ryback against Seth Rollins , Kevin Owens and The New Day ( Big E , Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods ) in a Survivor Series elimination tag team match. The Usos along with Reigns, Ambrose and Ryback were victorious in the match. On the November 30 episode of Raw , The Usos competed in a tag team #1 contenders match against the Lucha Dragons , which ended in a double DQ when The New Day attacked both teams. Later that night,
Stephanie McMahon gave the Lucha Dragons their match for the Tag Team Championship and The Usos would get their match if Roman Reigns defeated Sheamus for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in 5 minutes and 15 seconds, which he won by DQ. The Uso's won a Slammy! on the 21st of December episode of Raw for "Tag-Team of the year".
Other media
The pair starred in the first episode of Outside the Ring, where they cooked a traditional Samoan barbecue. [57]
Together, The Usos made their video game debut in WWE '13 as downloadable content . [58] The Usos returned in WWE 2K15 , as they were presented on the official WWE 2K15 trailer, they also appeared in WWE 2K16 .
Jonathan is regularly featured in the reality television series Total Divas due to his relationship with Total Divas star Naomi. Joshua has also made brief appearances. Jonathan has also appeared in his wife's music video for her song "Dance All Night", which was put on WWE's YouTube channel.
Personal lives
Jonathan Solofa Fatu (Jimmy) and Joshua Samuel Fatu (Jey) were born in San Francisco on August 22, 1985 (Jonathan/Jimmy is the older twin) and (Joshua/Jey is the younger twin) [2][3] and are of Samoan descent. They are fraternal twins .[59] They often perform the Samoan haka or Siva Tau before a match with Samoan tribal face paint. Their stage name " uso" means "brother" in the Samoan language. They are the sons of Solofa Fatu , better known as Rikishi. They are also part of the Anoaʻi family , they are first cousins once-removed from Matt Anoaʻi , better known as Rosey, Joe Anoaʻi , better known as Roman Reigns, and
Rodney Anoaʻi , better known as Yokozuna, and the nephews of the late Eddie Fatu , better known as Umaga. [22] The brothers attended
Escambia High School in Pensacola, FL. where they excelled at Football. They continued their football careers at the University of West Alabama where they both played linebacker. Jonathan played one season (2003) while Joshua played from 2003–2005. [60]
"Jimmy" Jonathan Fatu married fellow wrestler and longtime girlfriend Trinity McCray (a.k.a. Naomi) on January 16, 2014. She also is the stepmother of Jonathan's two children. [61] On
Total Divas Jon's kids are named Jayla and Jaiden.