The Usos

This article is about the professional wrestling tag team. For other uses, see Usos.

The Usos
Tag team
MembersJey Uso / Josh Fatu / Joshua Fatu / Jules Uso
Jimmy Uso / John Fatu / Jonathan Fatu
Name(s)The Fatu Brothers[1]
The Samoan Soldiers[1]
The Usos[2]
The Uso Brothers[3]
Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso
Billed heightsJey Uso: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Jimmy Uso: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Combined
billed weight		493 lb (224 kg)
Billed fromSan Francisco, California[2][4]
DebutJune 8, 2007[5]
Years active2007–2023
2024–present

The Usos are a Samoan-American professional wrestling tag team consisting of twin brothers Joshua Samuel Fatu and Jonathan Solofa Fatu (born August 22, 1985), better known as Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso. They are signed to WWE, where Jey performs the Raw brand while Jimmy performs on the SmackDown brand. They are the three-time Raw Tag Team Champions and five-time SmackDown Tag Team Champions, making their team overall eight-time champions and holding the record for the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history at 622 days. The Usos are members of the renowned Anoaʻi family of Samoan wrestlers.

Trained since childhood by their father, WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi, the twin brothers Joshua and Jonathan debuted in WWE's then-developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2009, where they became FCW Florida Tag Team Champions, and wrestled as Jules Uso and Jimmy Uso (The Uso Brothers). They were moved to the main roster the following year. While on the main roster, they have been managed by their cousin Tamina Snuka and Jimmy's wife, Naomi.[6] From July 2021 to June 2023, they were part of The Bloodline with their real-life first cousin once removed and group leader Roman Reigns and younger brother Solo Sikoa. Jimmy left the group in June 2023, with Jey following suit two weeks later; only for Jimmy to rejoin the group in September of that year until he was excommunicated in April 2024, and was subsequently replaced by Tama Tonga.

Peers and critics have described the Usos as one of the greatest professional wrestling tag teams of all time.[7][8][9][10] They hold the record for the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history at 622 days, which was accomplished in their fifth reign with the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship.[11] They are overall eight-time tag team champions in WWE, capturing the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship three times and winning the Slammy Award for Tag Team of the Year in both 2014 and 2015. In 2017, they won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship on three occasions, followed by a fourth reign in 2019 and a fifth reign in 2021. They are the first team to win both the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships and the first team to hold them simultaneously as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. In addition, The Usos have competed in the main event of several pay-per-views, including Night 1 of WrestleMania 39, which was the first time a tag team championship was defended in the main event of a WrestleMania, and the second time that a tag team match was the main event of Wrestlemania.

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  8. ^ Bower, Aaron. "Jimmy and Jey Uso Have Established Themselves as Best Tag Team in the WWE". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
  9. ^ "Paul Heyman Explains Why The Usos Are the 'Greatest Tag Team of All Time' (Exclusive)". Sports. July 18, 2022. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
  10. ^ Das, Sugata (November 15, 2022). "WWE News: WWE veteran names The Usos as the greatest tag team of all time". www.insidesport.in. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  11. ^ "SmackDown Tag Team Championship". WWE. Retrieved April 2, 2023.