A vocal critic of how the WWE books The Bloodline and in particular his sons The Usos, Rikishi was not pleased after Jey lost the WWE World Championship to Gunther on Raw this week.
On his ‘Off The Top’ podcast, Rikishi slammed the WWE for allowing his son to only had a 51 day title reign.
“So now they passed the belt on to Gunther for whatever reason. Hey, I ain’t got no beef with Gunther. I ain’t got no beef with any of those that are on the roster. I ain’t got no beef with that and if I do, I’m going to say it to your face because that’s just the type of man I am but let me back up. Good luck. Good luck, if that’s what your choice is, to go that way,” he said prefacing the comments that would follow next.
“I didn’t think it was justice. I didn’t think it was fair. 51 days. That was it? I mean, an Intercontinental belt, a short run, that was it? Like, what is it? What is it against my boy? Would you have done that to Randy Orton?…Would you have done that to John Cena? I mean, let’s talk about it because last I knew, at WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas he had the whole arena — the whole arena — YEET. YEET, YEET, YEET, your motherf—–g ass, YEET! So, come on! Somebody tell me. Tell me, what is it? The Bloodline has given our heart and soul to this industry! 75-plus years! Past, present and future! And God dammit, this is the way we get treated! This is the way you look at us. This ain’t right!” he said.
He then defended Jey to his critics.
“Are we talking about a kid that 16-plus years, that put in work? We talk about a kid that, combined with him and his brother, merchandise sales to the roof as a tag team? Now, he breaks off into a singles competitor. If you can tell me that anybody else is selling any merchandise higher than YEET, I want you to tell me, by all means. Generated revenue for the company. What was that saying? What’s good for business?” he began.
Rikishi believes the people who booked his son’s title reign should be canned by the company.
“And then you have a kid that put his heart and soul, just like everybody else that’s out there on the roster, put their heart and soul to get to that main event spot. And finally, when he gets there, you know what I feel? This is I feel. I feel that those that are writing for this kid, his storyline, you didn’t do him justice. You didn’t feed this champion right talent to be able to continue to make this champion. Not a fair shot in my eyes. So, you go 51 days. I say fire those that are writing for this kid here. If you can’t come up with something simple to promote and push your champion that you — not me — you decide to put this kid in that position and then that’s it? All of a sudden the brains don’t went just cloudy? You can’t write? You can’t think of an angle for Jey?” he said.
