5 Biggest Winners & Losers From WWE Battleground 2016
10. Losers - The Usos
Jimmy and Jey Uso have largely struggled for direction ever since their second reign as WWE Tag Team Championships came to an end in February 2015.
They’ve been paired with their cousin Roman Reigns intermittently (particularly throughout his feud with The Club), but outside of that, they’ve been mostly used as bit-part players in the tag division, and they hit a new low at Battleground.
Losing to Tyler Breeze and Fandango was bad enough for their momentum. “Breezango” have long been established as one of the division’s relative joke teams, trading wins and (mostly) losses with the likes of The Shining Stars and The Golden Truth, and their victory effectively shunts The Usos to the bottom of the pile.
The cherry on top came later in the evening, however, when Jimmy and Jey joined the rest of the SmackDown roster to celebrate Dean Ambrose’s win in the night’s main event. For whatever reason, the Usos were chosen to hoist Dean on their shoulders just moments after they’d pinned their own flesh and blood, and their dead-behind-the-eyes facial expressions said it all.
The Draft appeared to place The Usos as one of (if not the) top team in SmackDown’s threadbare division, but their future has never looked bleaker.