Top WWE star and 2025 Men’s Royal Rumble Match winner “Main Event” Jey Uso appeared on the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Ochocinco to discuss various topics, including when he feels the “YEET” movement really started to take off.
Uso said, “lf you really pay attention, me, my brothers, Roman [Reigns], we’ve kind of been saying that from the jump. If you look at old promos or whatever, uce, you’ll hear it. ‘Yeet. Yeet.’ It’s also a west coast slang. It’s been a slang…I’m a little older than the little homies, [they’re] like, ‘Oh, that’s a meme, a catchphrase where you’re yeeting people.’ But it’s been a slang. The ‘t’ wasn’t even on there. It used to be ‘yee’, like y-e-e-e. Man, I didn’t expect it to take off, though, like that. It just took off. I feel like it took off at the press conference. If you watch the press conference, you know. Then I had Cody saying ‘yeet,’ and then it just took off. I think that was a turning point. But I never thought it would take off the way it do.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
