Jey Uso says top guys work at a different level, and he has been learning that recently.
Jey Uso shared the ring with John Cena in the Royal Rumble match, and he eliminated the former champion to clinch the win.
Uso spoke with Peter Rosenberg on Cheap Heat, and he discussed his experience working with Cena at WWE Royal Rumble match.
“I still learned in there with him because I was excited to go HAM,” Uso said. “Last two in there. He’s like, ‘Nah, man. Here’s what we’re going to do. Slow pace.’ In my mind, I’m like, ‘My bad. I’m learning too.’ That’s a different kind of speed in there. We came up with that term recently, we call it Top Guy Speed. That’s a term. Roman is the first one that told me when we were working during the pandemic era. That stuck with me,” said Jey.
Jey Uso: Only Real Ones Know What Top Guy Speed Is
Jey Uso was then asked to explain what Top Guy Speed is, and he detailed how it meant sometimes sitting still to maximize the crowd’s reactions. He noted that only top guys really knew what Top Guy Speed was.
“Instead of moving to the next thing, just lay there for a little minute until the crowd (rises) ‘This is awesome.’ A lot of homies want to move, and while they are moving, people are chanting, ‘This is awesome,’ but you’re moving. I’ll lay there and let the crowd go,” he said. “Once they come down, then we go. We have to be disciplined to sit still. It’s hard to sit still.
“You want to get up and do the next thing. Wait. Once they come down, now we get up, onto the next, boom, do it again, ‘this is awesome,’ do it again. You gotta do it in (the ring). You’re not going to learn it anywhere else. Only real ones know that. Cena, Randy [Orton], Roman [Reigns], Seth [Rollins], Drew [McIntyre].” (H/t Jeremy Lambert of Fightful for the transcription)
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