5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (24 May - Results & Review)

2. Another Screwy Uso Title Defense

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Jey Uso is one month into his improbable World Heavyweight Championship reign, and other than a few really great entrances, what does he have to show for it?

Since winning the title at WrestleMania 41, Jey has wrestled three times: a title defense against Seth Rollins that ended in a disqualification, a non-title bout against Bron Breakker that ended in a DQ, and a title defense against Logan Paul on Saturday that ended with a pin… after a ref bump and double run-in.

No one was expecting Uso to be a workhorse champion who delivered solid title defenses week after week, but this title reign so far has been a series of entrances and yeets… and then the bell rings. The least WWE could do is give him a clean title defense.

Saturday’s match was a good opportunity. The John Cena and Cody Rhodes shenanigans could have easily taken place after the bell and not changed too much. Or they could have booked Jey to have a clean win at some point before he faces Gunther on the 9 June episode of Raw, where he either could lose the title or hold onto it… though that outcome feels like it will come with some outside interference.

Unless something changes, if Uso’s title reign ends in two weeks, it will be a footnote of a title win at Mania and a lot of yeeting, and that’s it.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.