Jey Uso Must Beat Gunther At WWE WrestleMania 41, Here's Why

Jey Uso must beat Gunther at WrestleMania. The YEET Master may be winless against the reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion, but he just has the right opportunity to change the tide at WWE WrestleMania 41.

Jey won the 2025 Men’s Royal Rumble match to establish himself as the number one contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. The former tag team specialist picked Gunther as his opponent despite knowing he’s never been able to beat the Ring General in previous outings.

Jey Uso’s rise to the main event level

Longtime fans of The Bloodline saga would agree that Jimmy Uso’s injury inadvertently paved the way for Jey’s rise to the main event scene. The brief feud with Roman Reigns amid Big Jim’s injury helped establish a fan connection with Jey as a sympathetic babyface. Jey would revert back to the tag team scene with Jimmy to unify the RAW and SmackDown Tag Team Championship.

The twins would dominate WWE’s tag team division before dropping the titles to Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in an emotionally charged WrestleMania 39 Night 1 main event. The following months would see Jey grow distant with his family to the point he faced Roman Reigns for the top title at SummerSlam 2023.

Fan support for Jey only grew amid all the family drama. The WWE Universe danced with him no matter the outcome of his matches. Triple H saw Jey Uso’s meteoric rise to main event level and booked him to go over John Cena at the 2025 Men’s Royal Rumble match. The internet complained at the shocking ending, but live crowd reactions showed otherwise.

Gunther’s attack on Jimmy Uso

Gunther made it personal. He shouldn’t have come after Jey’s family. The Ring General battered and bloodied Jimmy Uso as Jey watched helplessly this past week on Rey. The champion mocked Jey by wiping his chest with Jimmy’s blood. The dastardly attack must have Jey out for revenge the next time RAW goes live.

Family feuds often make up for some great television. WWE intensified the feud after giving us pull-apart brawls between Jey Uso and Gunther for weeks. The attack would, ideally, become Jey’s biggest motivation to win at WrestleMania 41. Triple H needs to add fuel to the fire by having Gunther destroy Rikishi on live TV, or something at that level of treachery.

A major babyface needs to go over at WrestleMania 41

WrestleMania 41 will also see Jey’s former tag team partner, Cody Rhodes, defend his Undisputed WWE Championship against John Cena.

Cena beating Cody to close out WrestleMania 41 would be the ideal outcome to the Undisputed WWE Championship match—and the perfect way to kick off the American Nightmare’s “redemption” arc. As for the World Heavyweight Title match, WWE cannot have another major babyface in Jey Uso lose to the heel champion Gunther, assuming Triple H is booking Cena to win.

That said, Hunter isn’t afraid to deliver controversial conclusions, as we’ve seen with the Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns WrestleMania 39 result, or putting the Money in the Bank briefcase on Damian Priest instead of the massive fan favorite LA Knight.

John Cena vs. Gunther for the Undisputed Title

John Cena may be the biggest heel, barring The Rock, but he’d (most probably) retire as a babyface. Heck, an avowed conspiracy theorist thinks Cena may not even retire after all is said and done. (Speaking of retirement, this writer would very much like to see Gunther retire Goldberg, but that’s another story…) And speaking of Gunther, WWE needs to deliver John Cena vs. Gunther as part of Cena’s 2025 farewell tour.

Cena’s father had previously said he wanted to see his son challenge Gunther for the title at WrestleMania 41. We know the match isn’t taking place in April but hear me out. What if Gunther shows up to challenge Cena for the Undisputed WWE Championship after dropping his World Heavyweight Championship to Jey Uso at WrestleMania?!

There are multiple ways to build this feud. For starters, Cena wins. Gunther loses. Cena brings the Undisputed Title to RAW. SmackDown gets the world title. Gunther stays on RAW to eventually confront Cena, planting the seeds for a John Cena face turn and giving us the dream match in the process.

Jey Uso defends his title against The Bloodline

Jey Uso can’t escape The Bloodline no matter how successful of a singles star he becomes. His own rise to the top came against a fellow Bloodline member in Roman Reigns. The faction has since introduced new members like Tama Tonga and Jacob Fatu, who is expected to be a top player down the road.

It would be a no-brainer for WWE to do Jey Uso versus The Bloodline for a major title. Of course, Jey needs to win a title in the first place to defend it. We’ve got Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga and Jacob as three heel Bloodline members for Jey Uso to potentially face. If you want to fix the disaster that was Jey vs. Jimmy at WrestleMania, I’d say put the twins in a title match on weekly television.

Finally, Jey’s world title arc would be incomplete without the man who helped mold him into the man he is today: Roman Reigns. Jey is one of the few men to hand his cousin a pinfall loss. He may as well do it again, especially if the world title is at stake.