Rikishi Criticizes Decision To Put Jey Uso In A Tag Match At Money In The Bank, Jokingly Offers To Book His Matches

Rikishi reacts to Jey Uso’s current trajectory in WWE.

In the past, Rikishi has been critical of Jey’s booking in WWE, even to the point where Jey talked about his father’s criticisms during an interview back in 2024.

Now, Rikishi is seemingly unhappy with Uso’s current path in WWE, despite the fact that he’s the World Heavyweight Champion. On the latest episode of his Off The Top Rope podcast, Rikishi learned about Uso teaming with Cody Rhodes to face John Cena and Logan Paul at Money In The Bank.

“Bro why? Why? I mean, Jey is a world heavyweight champion by himself. Okay. Oh, they really need to fire creative service over there now. Just book me so I can book my son’s matches out there, man. You know what I mean?”

Rikishi continued on, saying he wouldn’t have had Uso beat Paul in their first match.

“Okay, you had me, but when they brought in Paul. Like I said on a past podcast, I like Logan. I thought uce, he’s got skills. He’s very entertaining. He knows how to get heat. But damn, I wouldn’t have beat him the first time they locked up together. Could’ve just waited till a cage match or some type of gimmick match or something. Paul, he’s got heat, right? He’s got heat and this will probably be his biggest spotlight in WWE. They’re both young, Jey is young, Paul is young. Now you beat Paul, now where do you go. Into a tag team bout? Like, okay. Alright.”

On the June 9 edition of WWE Raw, Gunther will challenge Jey Uso for the World Heavyweight Championship. Rikishi isn’t a fan of Gunther having to wait around for the match, also noting that the bout needs a stipulation.

“We’re just gonna hunker Gunther out. Just hang around, Gunther. If I was Gunther, I want Jey right now damnit. Give me Jey right now. It could have went either Jey and Logan or I mean, it has to be some type of gimmick match for him and Gunther. It’s got to be one of those big double cages or something. Just some make believe gimmick type of match to bring some type of excitement to it. Two things can happen, either they give it to Jey again off the gimmick match, which excels him to the next level. It’s bad for Gunther, just alright, where do you go from there? But, it took Jey three times before he beat Gunther, so I think it’s only fair to be able to give Gunther three chances and maybe beat him three times. Or not, depends. But still man, it’s like, goes back to whoever is writing it. But what do I know.”

Fans can check out the current lineup for WWE Money In The Bank by clicking here.

Jimmy Uso recently joked about Rikishi’s “I did it for The Rock” promo, calling it the worst promo ever. Click here to check out his full comments.

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