10 Most Unlikely First WWE World Championship Defenses

10. Roman Reigns Vs. Jey Uso (Universal Championship) - 27/09/20

The Bloodline has been dominating WWE TV for over a year now, with the combined antics of Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, The Usos, and now Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa ensuring Reigns' dominance as Universal/Undisputed WWE Universal Champion in a generation-defining two-year reign. However, it wasn't always peachy in The Bloodline...

Back at Payback 2020, Reigns defeated champion Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman to capture the Universal Title. Five days later on SmackDown, Jey Uso returned from a three-month hiatus (after a long-term injury to his brother Jimmy) to take part in a No. 1 Contender's Fatal-4-Way match which he - incredibly - won. This lined up a match between the two cousins for the upcoming Clash of Champions PLE, the run-up to which featured coy stares between Jey and the Universal Championship belt, as well as formative behaviours from Reigns that would eventually evolve into his 'Tribal Chief' persona.

Roman would see off Jey after Jimmy threw the towel in for him at Clash of Champions, and again in the "I Quit" Hell in a Cell rematch a month later, with Reigns manipulating Jey to say "I quit" by threatening harm on a still-injured Jimmy Uso.