Jey Uso appeared on the Nightcap podcast with Shannon Sharpe and Ochocinco to discuss the history of his “YEET” catchphrase.
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.
Uso then shared the moment when he felt the catchphrase gained widespread popularity.
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.
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