3 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Jan 15)

2. Jey Uso’s Questionable Logic

Jey Uso
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Jey Uso has been must-see since he started firing up on Roman Reigns last year. Despite falling in line behind his older cousin recently, Jey has still been a valuable part of SmackDown's product, and he'll hopefully land somewhere in the upper-midcard permanently once this story wraps up.

Once he does, he'll need to pay attention.

This week, before Kevin Owens was revealed as Roman's true opponent, Uso said that Adam Pearce might wish he hadn't bothered to step up at the Rumble. Erm...he didn't. In fact, it was Jey and pals who forced Pearce into that situation by beating him senseless then draping him over Shinsuke Nakamura in last week's Gauntlet.

The entire purpose of this story pre-KO comeback was that Pearce didn't want to wrestle Reigns. Roman's crew were just pushing him around because they're bullies who impose their will on everyone else and think he does a sh*tty job running things.

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