Jey Uso is already getting cooked online for reaching the King of the Ring finals, and now Jonathan Coachman is questioning whether WWE is making this whole thing more about The Bloodline than Oba Femi.
While speaking on Two Count Tuesday, Coachman said he thought WWE might let Oba steamroll through the tournament and use the King of the Ring run to fully launch him. Instead, Jey is now in the finals, and Coachman does not understand why WWE would suddenly position him as a major world title threat again after his previous World Heavyweight Title run was cut short.
“We wondered if they would do the ascent and just let Oba steamroll through everybody in this tournament. I’m trying to figure out how, a year after Jey Uso, when they decided after 51 days that he was not worthy of being a World Heavyweight Champion, they’re now putting him in a position where we’re supposed to believe he is going to legitimately challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship.”
Coachman said the only angle that makes sense to him is WWE turning Jey heel and using this to point him back toward Roman Reigns. But if that is the plan, he thinks it makes the King of the Ring final more about Jey than Oba, which he called a bad creative move.
“The only thing I can think of, JD, is that they’re going to turn him heel. They want him to go against Roman. He’s going to challenge Roman and challenge the Head of the Table. And if that’s the case, then that makes this match more about Jey, doesn’t it, than it does about Oba? I think that is another bad creative move.”
Coachman then took it a step further, saying his gut tells him WWE sees Oba Femi as young enough to wait, while the real priority is launching the next version of The Bloodline story.
“My gut tells me this — that they’ve said, ‘You know what, Oba is young. Oba is new. Oba has time for us to build up that storyline.’ I think this tells me, it tells us, that the number one most important thing to Triple H and the creative team is the Bloodline, and what Bloodline 2.3.4.0 is going to look like. This is going to be the true launch of it.”
The problem, according to Jonathan Coachman, is Roman Reigns is not around right now to respond if Jey Uso wins. That makes the whole thing feel incomplete to him.
“The problem is, when you don’t have Roman Reigns around to be a part of it, you’re going to have Jey win on Sunday? You’re really going to have him win, and then Roman’s not going to be there to respond? That’s where the creative lacks for me.”
This comes after Jey fired back at fans who disliked WWE’s YouTube upload of his win over Je’Von Evans and called his haters broke. Now, with Oba waiting at Night of Champions, the debate is only getting louder.
Bottom line, Coachman thinks WWE may be sacrificing a cleaner Oba Femi breakout moment just to restart Bloodline drama. Jey may be laughing off the hate, but if he beats Oba, fans are going to have even more to say.
Do you think WWE should have Oba Femi beat Jey Uso, or is Jey winning the right move for the Bloodline story? Please share your thoughts and feedback in the comments below.
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