50 Best Wrestlers Of The 2020s (So Far)

37. The Usos

Jey Jimmy The Usos
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Jimmy and Jey Uso's singles matches against each other and various other wrestlers have proven two things during WWE's commercial boom - that the power of a catchphrase can and is enough to justify a World Title reign in the right context, and that they were always best suited to doubles action.

Record-breakers in the 2020s thanks to their career-altering association with Roman Reigns as part of The Bloodline, the brothers smashed through The New Day's longevity record as Champions before losing them in a setting befitting of an era coming to an end. The WrestleMania 39 Night One main event between Jimmy, Jey, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn was life-affirming stuff; brothers defeated by men that may as well have been too, all in service of setting up the nearly-but-not-quite babyface euphoria over the weekend before Cody Rhodes fell short against 'The Tribal Chief' the next night.

The road to that instant classic was just absorbing, set up as it was by exploring the dynamic between Jimmy and Jey as brothers in terms of their differing relationships with Reigns the abuser and Zayn the escapee. The siblings had gone from sharing their personalities with each other to sharing their hearts with the audience, creating a strain of investment not seen since the pair's 2017 turf war with Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E. YEET? NO YEET? You didn't have to pick a side even when the brothers were on opposite ones, because they were always better together than apart anyway

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