WWE Heavyweight Champion Jey Uso joins GQ Sports to reveal his 10 Essentials. The American wrestler breaks down his daily essentials: from his sunglasses (“Jimmy wrote YEET on one of my glasses and that’s what it was missing”) to his WWE championship belt (“I hate traveling with it, it’s heavy”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as Jey Uso reveals 10 things he can’t live without.----------Director: Jeremy ClowneyDirector of Photography: Brad WickhamEditor: Phil CeconiTalent: Jey UsoProducer: Camille RamosLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Paige KefferCamera Operator: Lucas YoungGaffer: Niklas MollerSound Mixer: Rachel SuffianProduction Assistant: Erica PalmieriPost Production Supervisor: Jess DunnPost Production Coordinator: Stella ShortinoSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAdditional Editor: Rob MaloneAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00I wear sunglasses indoors all the time, which I can't see.
00:02You can't see, really.
00:03I especially can't see out of these things.
00:06I damn near be trippin' on myself.
00:07Hey, y'all ever catch me fallin' on?
00:09Hey, just keep it rollin', man.
00:10I'll own up to it.
00:12Yes, sir, main event Jey Uso in the building.
00:15What up, GQ?
00:16I'ma show y'all 10 things I can't live without.
00:27My first essential is a journal.
00:29Be in airports and, you know, rental cars, you feel me?
00:32So, a lot of thinkin' time.
00:34Each page has a question.
00:36On top, it has the date.
00:37We'll just say right here, I just popped it open, March 27.
00:40How well do I handle uncertainty in life?
00:43And then, I scribbled big as hell, I'm never certain.
00:46Feel me, that's just one page.
00:49That big, see that ooze?
00:51I mean, I draw in it, it's all kinda stuff,
00:53you know what I'm sayin'?
00:54What goes on my head goes on the paper.
00:56Sunglasses.
01:00I prefer Ray-Bans, I like Ray-Bans.
01:02Always in the airports, Uso.
01:03Just in the sky most of the time, Uso.
01:06Just gotta keep the rays out of my eyes, you know?
01:08I'm very bright on TV.
01:10In real life, I'm all black, just, you know, small.
01:13Real talk, my brother, Jimmy, drew no yeet on one of my glasses,
01:18and that's what it was missin'.
01:20I got the whole idea from Bret Hart, though,
01:22that visor look that he had.
01:24I put my own spin on it.
01:25It's been workin'.
01:28It's a yeet chain.
01:29I'm a yeet good friend, gimme this for the WrestleMania gift.
01:33I do like wearin' it on TV a lot.
01:34I think it's a little too flashy to wear on the outside of the ring.
01:37No, I'm just tryin' to let y'all see it, though, man, you know?
01:44We've been sayin' it since we were kids, though.
01:47You know, even before it got famous.
01:48It's also a West Coast slang, too.
01:51Played football with a bunch of country boys.
01:54They was always like, yeet.
01:56Kinda always had it, Uso.
01:57I think the first time we really got on was a press conference with Cody Rhodes.
02:01But if you pay attention, we were sayin' it a bunch of the times.
02:05I just feel like the masked people finally got hip to it with me and Cody.
02:10Gaming laptop.
02:12When I got a little bit of money, I finally, I was like,
02:14one day I'm gonna get a gaming laptop, booze.
02:16Really can't live without this one, though.
02:18It's like, travel with this everywhere.
02:20I'll carry this across the whole world and back.
02:22I don't think it's about PlayStations and Xbox no more,
02:25because you can't take them nowhere.
02:26I think the new wave is gaming laptops, so.
02:28Y'all trying to get whooped on, you know?
02:31Top five?
02:32Call of Duty, it was for sure.
02:33Tekken.
02:34Street Fighter, you know, we grew up on that one.
02:36Mortal Kombat.
02:38FIFA, you know?
02:39We get down on soccer, too.
02:40Man, come on, man.
02:41My back hurt all the time.
02:42Carrying my team all the time, booze.
02:45Bose headphones.
02:46It's just something different.
02:47Like, you know, you got AirPods, right?
02:49But I like those for training.
02:50And then these ones for the airplane.
02:52Like, noise cancellation.
02:53You know what I'm sayin'?
02:54It was Jimmy be snowing next to me, you know?
02:56I don't know, half the time.
02:57But these are dope.
02:59These are the best ones I have.
03:00I keep buying the same type as well.
03:02What up, Bose?
03:03Yeet.
03:03Man, I got range, though.
03:05I got that NSYNC, the damn Britney Spears,
03:08all the way to Young G's and Gucci, man.
03:10You know what I'm sayin'?
03:11A lot of Kendrick on there.
03:12It was a lot of J. Cole.
03:14All right, J. Cole, my favorite, so.
03:15I listen to a lot of R&B music.
03:18Like, the old, like, 2000 Usher type,
03:22before I go out there.
03:23There's a lot of, you know, kind of stuff
03:25you got to remember while you're out there.
03:26So I kind of don't do that crunk stuff a lot.
03:30I like to be mellow with it.
03:33My wrestling gear.
03:36This is probably the dopest set of gear that I got.
03:40They gave me that name, like, during, like, pandemic era,
03:43because I was wrestling every single week.
03:45They started calling me main event Jey Uso.
03:47I think Michael Cole gave me that, or Corey Graves, you know?
03:52So I appreciate y'all for just tagging it in, because they made that.
03:55Man, I got my boy, Surat, in the back.
03:57I be posting him on IG, Uso.
03:59Every time that he do something for me,
04:01I'll always take the picture with him.
04:02Yeah, he just come up with the scheme.
04:04I tell him the colors, and he'll just bring it to life, man.
04:07This bedazzle stuff was the first time for me.
04:09I've never done nothing like that before.
04:11Like, it pops the gear, though, for sure.
04:13Yeah, man, I'll probably wear it a couple more times,
04:14and then, you know, sell it.
04:17At my house, Uso, I got a whole basement just full of gear.
04:20It's like a museum down there.
04:23Air Force One, Zeus.
04:25Like, if you know, you know.
04:27Me and my brother, we've been wrestling with them for years.
04:29We rock these.
04:30I mean, damn, Nike, what up, man?
04:31Damn, come on, man, hook it up.
04:32These are a little dingy, man, because I just whooped ass with them.
04:35Got some red on there.
04:35Got blood on there.
04:36If you need to know who blood that is,
04:38that's Seth Rollins right there, Uso.
04:40Yeet.
04:40I'll buy a fresh pair every week, though, too,
04:43so you can look clean with it.
04:44I bought these on the road, and they already look like that.
04:47But I'll probably buy another pair, like, tomorrow.
04:51The World Heavyweight Championship, man.
04:55Worked hard for this one.
04:57I'm glad I got it.
04:58I'm glad it's me now.
04:59I got the blue plates on there.
05:01There's never, like, color added to this title before.
05:04It was always just straight gold and black.
05:06But they threw my plates on there,
05:07and I think it just sets it off.
05:08I hate traveling with it, though.
05:10It's very heavy.
05:11It's about as big as a lady over here just handed it to me.
05:13Every time I go through TSA, like,
05:15I be trying to tell them, like, you know what it is, man.
05:17Please don't look, don't, you know,
05:18I'm just trying to go catch the flight,
05:19but they got to pull it out, look at it.
05:21I guess it's a good problem to have, right?
05:24Yeet.
05:25I think I'm the fourth person in my family to hold it.
05:28I like that, especially after I won it,
05:30my twin brother was in there with me to celebrate.
05:32This is a token of me and his hard work, for sure.
05:35It's just not just me, man.
05:37My phone never stops buzzing.
05:39I lost my phone two weeks,
05:41and I didn't go get another phone,
05:43and it was the best ever.
05:44No one was calling me.
05:46I felt, like, present a lot.
05:48I think I'm going to get a flip phone.
05:49They still have those?
05:51Well, my next essential,
05:54day one.
05:55Yeet.
05:56All right.
05:56Yeet.
05:57You know?
05:58Yeet.
05:59My twin brother.
06:00I'm so with it.
06:01Big Jim.
06:02Damn, you actually picked me, huh?
06:03Well, I just needed one more essential.
06:04I actually feel blessed.
06:06Thank you, dog.
06:10What we got?
06:11I'm going to let you go.
06:12You know, we're twins, man.
06:13I honestly think we get the Chico to life.
06:15To be on the road, to be with, it's a blessing, man.
06:18Yeah, I'll say it.
06:19You know, 15 years on the road together.
06:21I've watched Brother Reach Heights
06:24that we talked about as kids.
06:26You know, it's actually, it's a dream come true to see it.
06:28And it's quite funny, actually.
06:30It's almost like one of the most real surreal things,
06:32I think, we both seeing right now.
06:34All the years traveling with each other, though,
06:36I did take it for granted, though, man,
06:38because I am by myself now.
06:40We're on two different shows,
06:41so I kind of don't see them as much as I want to.
06:44Man, like, we always have each other.
06:45That made a lot of the miles, you know what I'm saying,
06:47go quick.
06:48Like, we've been in game 15 already.
06:51That's a long time.
06:52We turning 40 this year.
06:54Take longer to heal now, you know what I'm saying?
06:56And now I look at, like, all the OG wrestlers, like,
06:58everybody walking around with a little limp.
07:00I don't want to do that.
07:01You know, I want to be strong and get out the game
07:05when I want to get out the game.
07:06Is that how you feel?
07:07You got guys in there that are guys like R-Truth,
07:10Ray Mysterio, Randy Orton.
07:12These cats, you know, they still in their prime,
07:16still doing their thing.
07:17So, yeah, there's inspiration to keep going.
07:19You know, we still feel strong mentally, physically.
07:21You know, Grey's kind of coming in on them.
07:23You know, I see you over there trying to run from here
07:25because you're dying a little bit,
07:27but that's cool, though.
07:28But, you know, other than that, man,
07:29we still feeling strong, man.
07:31So, you know, time tells.
07:32I could bang 20 out.
07:34I think that's a great accomplishment.
07:35There's about five more left from here, dog.
07:37Five more with your ass.
07:38Yeah, we with it, though.
07:39Yeah.
07:39Would y'all want to go back to another tag run?
07:42For sure, man.
07:43Usos on another tag run.
07:45Listen, you got to start a little bit, man.
07:47Like I said.
07:48I can do it on my own, too, now.
07:49Like I said, like I said, yeah.
07:52Tag team off the bat, off the rip.
07:55Number one tag team in the world,
07:57number one tag team in the game.
07:58Do that out there, moving and grooving with it, man.
08:01You know, right now, the world champ is right here.
08:04You know, we did the tag team, the best tag team.
08:07Now we got the best heavyweight champion to this day, man,
08:10to do it right now.
08:10And it's only getting better.
08:11What else was that after that?
08:13Like, head of the table?
08:15I don't know.
08:16We're going to get a round table.
08:17That way there's no head of the table.
08:18That's the thing.
08:19We need a round table.
08:20We're just fighting over this head of the table crap.
08:22One damn five years.
08:23Us, let's just get a round table.
08:25Hey, but right now, you see, it's only one head of the table right now.
08:28And you know, we see who it is.
08:30Yeet.
08:36These are my essentials right here.
08:38GQ, appreciate you for having your boy.
08:41Lock in June 7th.
08:43Uh-huh.
08:44Get with it or get lost.
08:47Four letters, one word.
08:51Yeet.