jey uso vs gunther full match wrestlemania 41
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00:00We're kicking off the show!
00:19Come on, Wade!
00:20Wade!
00:21What a moment!
00:23I need a little incense in it!
00:26Wouldn't be the first time!
00:30The Raiderettes from the Las Vegas Raiders in the NFL are here!
00:37Thank you for the hospitality, Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders!
00:42Your stadium is immaculate!
00:45And this place is upside down!
00:49Early!
01:00Here he comes, Pat!
01:09Main event, Jey Uso!
01:12The biggest night of his career!
01:14The winner of the Royal Rumble!
01:17Stay on beat, Cole!
01:19Stay on beat!
01:20Stay on beat!
01:22I'm just excited to be here!
01:24We all are, baby!
01:25It's WrestleMania!
01:27In this particular WrestleMania will be one that Jey Uso will remember for the rest of his life!
01:33When a documentary is made about the right-hand man, tonight will be in it!
01:39Could it be the first time he's a world champion all by himself!
01:44Or in that he gets his heart broke by the Ring General!
01:48Until then!
01:52I'll tell you what, Cole!
02:15A lot of yeeting here early!
02:17Wade, you might have to call the whole show!
02:22Quite happily, I'm sure it'll be a vast improvement from you two jumping out of the blocks at an 11.
02:29I will say, in an entire stadium, yeeting to the max right now, Jey Uso seems remarkably restrained.
02:39He's the only one that can restrain himself from!
02:51Yeet! Yeet! Yeet! Yeet! Yeet! Yeet! Yeet!
02:56Yeet and all the managers, baby!
02:58Well, it's all excitement for everyone else, but Jey Uso is the man that has to now step in the ring with the Ring General Gunther!
03:06Oh, let's get to that in a moment!
03:08The celebrations!
03:09Because everybody's having fun, even Rick Rubin is yeeting in the front row, Pat!
03:13I like that!
03:15I like that!
03:17Big-brained man from a lot of great songs!
03:20This being a banger, through and through!
03:23How do you do, Ricky Roof!
03:25Hey, look at Jey Uso right next to our lucky Slim Jim Sweepstakes winner, who is leaving the ultimate fan experience thanks to Slim Jim!
03:40Need a little excitement? Snap in to a Slim Jim!
03:44Come on, Uso! Come on, Uso!
03:49Hey, baby, that was a WrestleMania!
03:51Come on, Blair!
03:52A little subdued.
03:56Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to WrestleMania!
03:59Pat McAfee and I are here, and for the first time at the announce desk, in his WrestleMania debut, Wade Barrett!
04:05Welcome, partner!
04:06I am so pumped up with this!
04:07I know it might not have seen so much like that during the yeeting experience, I'm trying to pace myself!
04:12This is a massive show with massive matches, and I'm so honored to be a part of this process!
04:17Hey, even the Spanish announcers, Marcelo Rodriguez and Jerry Soto, doing some neat as well!
04:22Here we go, here we go!
04:23We are here, with our team at WrestleMania to make history again!
04:28That's it, thanks to you!
04:31Enjoy WrestleMania!
04:33And then?
04:34Ha-ha!
04:39Hey, hey, hey!
04:41Well, the stars are out tonight!
04:44We'd like to welcome Tordialishek, the chairman of the GEA from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia!
04:50They welcome us into their country a couple of times a year!
04:53He's enjoying WrestleMania here tonight!
04:56Welcome to the show, Turkey!
04:59Thank you for coming!
05:01We're leading off with the biggest wagon in WWE!
05:06The Yeet Train!
05:09Starts WrestleMania 41!
05:14Let's get down to business now, as Wade hit the nail on the head!
05:17All the fun and games are over here in a couple of minutes for Jey Uso!
05:20He comes in tonight, Wade, 0-6 in World Championship matches in his career!
05:25Perhaps more importantly, 0-3 when it comes to going one-on-one with Gunther!
05:30Well, pressure is no greater than right here at WrestleMania!
05:33Jey's been here before, he's done it before, but he's done it in tag action,
05:37where he's had somebody to lean on!
05:39He stands alone, and it must be the most lonely spot on planet Earth,
05:43knowing what is about to walk down this aisle!
05:46He's not alone at all!
05:47I think you can see clearly, Wade, be a world champion!
05:50No matter who you face, it's gonna be tough!
05:52This one might be the toughest of them all!
05:55Talked a lot over the past couple of weeks, the fact that after bloodying and bludgeoning Jey Uso's brother Jimmy,
06:03that Gunther sent Jey Uso into another space, into another plane!
06:08Jey Uso's been intense!
06:10Jey Uso has been focused, and perhaps, Wade, for the first time,
06:15Gunther has lost some control of this situation!
06:18Yeah, it's been a morphing act by Jey Uso, and that morphing act has completely rattled the champ!
06:24Everything Gunther thought he knew about Jey Uso has gone out the window!
06:28I think everything Jey Uso thought he knew about Jey Uso has gone out the window!
06:32Feels like a new person as of late, as we wait each other out here a little bit on the big stage!
06:38The problem for Jey, I mentioned before, 0-3 in one-on-one matches with Gunther back in 2024,
06:44when Jey Uso was the Iron Man of the Rumble that year!
06:47Let's get started!
06:48After 50 minutes before being eliminated by Gunther, and we're underway!
06:51Are you surprised, Wade, that Jey Uso went for the collar and elbow tie-up to start this match?
06:57Yeah, I am completely, and listen, the mindset of Jey Uso may have appeared to have changed over the past two weeks!
07:04Physically, he's still the same guy!
07:06That's the problem! Physically, nobody...
07:09Oh, and Jey firing back to the right, and he drops Gunther!
07:12And Gunther now back on his heels, and he's gonna roll out of the way!
07:15The ring now, to readjust!
07:18Alright, forget everything I just said!
07:20Physically, that did indeed rock Gunther, but when Gunther feels a weakness on himself,
07:25he fixes it and comes back stronger!
07:27Yeah, Jey Uso has actually put on some muscle over the last few months!
07:31He's got a new neck tat, so physically he's different as well coming in here!
07:34And I think what Gunther just realized was, wait a minute!
07:37Jey Uso can throw hands if he has to!
07:39Yeah, real contrast in styles in this match-up!
07:42Gunther is steadfast, machine-like, he's redefined brutality here at WWE!
07:48For Jey Uso, he's flashy, he's quick, he's a veteran!
07:51Looking to outsmart Gunther here tonight, which I'm not sure you can do against the ring general!
07:56Well, Gunther leaves no stone unturned in his preparation,
08:00especially for the biggest matches here at WrestleMania!
08:04Jey Uso simply cannot outmaneuver the champ physically!
08:07Side headlock, and Pat, if you're Gunther, you want to try to ground and pound Uso tonight, right?
08:11Absolutely! Gunther's trying to pound everything in sight!
08:14Big shoulder tackle, Uso with his quickness moves out of the way!
08:17And Jey Uso with a shoulder tackle of his own, chocked by Gunther!
08:21Yeah, those are going to be the equalizers here!
08:24And a step-up in, Zaguri drops the champ again!
08:27And again, Gunther has to roll out of the way and try to reassess this situation!
08:31Step-up in, Zaguri gives Jey a little bit of peace here!
08:34Well, here's the shocking moment, that huge chop from Gunther there!
08:38Jey just ate it, it rattled him, but he didn't go down!
08:41That has surprised the big Austrian!
08:43The dominant champion who's held the title 80% of his career in WWE!
08:48870 days as the NXT UK champ!
08:52666 days as the Intercontinental Champion!
08:55258 days now as the World Champ since winning back at SummerSlam!
09:00One thing Gunther has to do, Pat, is not allow the crowd to get into this match!
09:07Yeah, you watch him just take a step back there once the yeeting started here in Las Vegas!
09:11And maybe it is in his head a little bit that the whole stadium is against him!
09:15Being a former NFL player, explain to us the importance of the momentum of the crowd to help your team!
09:21Yeah, momentum's a real thing!
09:22Stats and analytics don't really know how to explain it, but if the vibes are good and they're going...
09:26Oh! Confidence is hot! Not enough!
09:28And Gunther into the cover now! Jay forced to kick out!
09:31And I'm not sure you want to try to overpower Gunther here!
09:33Yeah, and I guess you're overestimating the importance of crowd noise when it comes to Gunther!
09:38A lot of people, yes, it will affect Gunther!
09:41Gunther is just built so different! He's got the granite mindset!
09:44Noise from the peanut gallery is not going to affect him at all!
09:48We want to talk about noise! The chops to Jay's chest tonight that people are going to hear, maybe for the first time, alarming!
09:55What that right-handed, that Austrian man can do!
09:58Usso! Usso! Usso!
10:00He's devastating!
10:01Usso! Usso! Usso! Usso! Usso!
10:07Body slam from Jey Uso!
10:10And now Gunther backing up into the corner again, and Jey Uso caught him!
10:16And Jey now starting to roll! Gunther the champion could be in some trouble!
10:20Gunther was not expecting- Oh! That chop will stop Jey in his tracks as he tumbles and falls to the floor!
10:28That's what I was talking about just moments ago!
10:30It's been flurries, it's been a hundred miles an hour from Jey Uso, it has rattled the champ on occasion!
10:37But one killer blow like that changes everything!
10:41And again, another look at this chop! It's his finisher! Boom!
10:44If he hits it, it could be over immediately!
10:48And remember guys, no hurry for Gunther here!
10:50He's got the champion's advantage!
10:52Jey must pin or submit Gunther to win the title!
10:56And this is the pace that Gunther likes!
10:58It was that hundred miles an hour stuff from Jey Uso that was playing into Uso's game plan!
11:03Now this is all back to the drawing board!
11:06Gunther goes 6-4, 2-50 from Vienna, Austria!
11:10And that big uppercut drops Jey again!
11:12And now it almost feels like, Pat, that Gunther's starting to settle in!
11:15Yeah, this is right where Gunther likes to be!
11:18He's in complete control, you are at his mercy, and he's chopping and thumping your body down!
11:25And if you were Jey Uso, Wade, this is what you had to try to avoid!
11:29Yeah, absolutely! You asked anyone three weeks ago, Jey Uso had zero chance in this match!
11:35All of this changed in the meantime is a couple of fired up speeches from Jey Uso!
11:40Physically, he's exactly the same, and now he's getting dominated by Gunther!
11:44This was inevitable!
11:45You don't think that affected Gunther emotionally at all!
11:48Until the bell rings, and then something switches in the mind of Gunther!
11:53And this version appears!
11:55And now the match settling in to the point where I believe many people thought this match would be that the dominance of Gunther didn't want to believe, wanted to believe in Jey!
12:04And Jey with a spear!
12:05He caught him out of mid-air with a spear!
12:07Changed out a steal of win!
12:08Over Gunther!
12:09Who's gotta kick it, too!
12:10Now, if you're the champion, Wade, that's gonna knock you all out of sorts!
12:13Yeah, and if everything you're saying, Wade, is true, then Jey Uso didn't just spear Gunther out of his boots and almost win the title right here in Las Vegas!
12:20Let's take another look at this!
12:21Spear connects to perfection, but to be honest, Gunther absorbed it, kicked out at exactly the right moment, keeps the match alive, and really, Jey Uso took too long to follow it up!
12:34You gotta wonder if Jey got all that spear with full momentum, but Jey's still fighting back, and Gunther seems to be on his heels a bit here!
12:42In case Jey Uso's back in charge!
12:47Oof!
12:48Wow!
12:49Nevermind!
12:50The biggest equalizer in the game, throw whatever you want at Gunther!
12:54Oh, wait a second!
12:55Went for the powerbomb, and Jey turned it into a Samoa drop!
12:58Great counter by Jey, he's been beaten by that powerbomb before!
13:01I'll tell you this, Jey Uso is as locked in as I have ever seen him!
13:05I go back 16 years with that guy, this is a very different, more combative version of Jey Uso!
13:11Referee Sean Bennett, the official in this world championship matchup, Gunther now, will not allow Uso to get to the top rope, Gunther will meet him there however!
13:20And now the world champion, looking to take control, hooking Uso, top rope now for Gunther, and that suplex driving Jey Uso across the ring!
13:28There's a throw off the top rope!
13:30And there's a dinosaur dropkick by the gargantuan Gunther, who now looks to put Uso away with a powerbomb, and this is what we are afraid of!
13:38Stacks him up for the win, and the retention, and a kickout at 2 by Jey!
13:43How did Jey kick out of that?
13:46Well Gunther is transforming the game before our eyes, no one in history has stacked heavy offense in a row quite like Gunther!
13:55This is the final piece in the puzzle, the high stack powerbomb, final piece until it wasn't Jey Uso's!
14:02An absolutely electrifying atmosphere, WrestleMania weekends are a must-do for any human with breath!
14:11It's been a wild 24 hours already!
14:14What could happen to you, huh?
14:16Right hand, big slap by Gunther, drops Jey again!
14:21And now, Gunther looking to deliver yet another powerbomb to Jey Uso, Jey able to turn it around with a nice rana!
14:27And now Jey Uso's spear again! Spear again by Jey!
14:30Jey's got Gunther hurt, Gunther's down, Jey Uso's gonna look to go up top!
14:34Is it Jey's moment? Is it Jey's opportunity?
14:37Jey from the top rope rocks, blast connecting!
14:40Cover!
14:41One, two, three!
14:43Gunther kicks at it too!
14:46Well they've both now dropped their heaviest artillery, and it simply hasn't worked!
14:52Gumbling up with a second bite of the cherry!
14:55Jey beats him to the punch with his spear, this time following it up,
14:59with that iconic splash!
15:01They're finishers, they're Uso's splash and the powerbomb, and you gotta believe,
15:06is frustrating starting, frustration I should say, starting to set in for Gunther.
15:10What the hell's Gunther doing?
15:12He's taking his back and ball and going home?
15:14Gunther has grabbed his world title.
15:17You're not gonna ruin that for me, Jey!
15:20You're not gonna ruin that for me!
15:22You're not gonna ruin that for me!
15:24Pull it!
15:25Nobody will!
15:26I'm gonna talk behind you!
15:27And Jey Uso now, and look at the referee!
15:29Bennett had a duck out of the way!
15:30And Gunther used the belts as a weapon!
15:32Jey Uso with a belt to the face!
15:35Gunther now going up to the top rope!
15:37Gunther with a splash!
15:38Gunther looking to retain and steal this matchup!
15:42Kick out by Jey!
15:44What the hell is there anything left of Jey Uso?!
15:48And now the frustration has set it in, Wade.
15:50Gunther realized that was his opportunity, and now,
15:53now locking in the sleeper!
15:55The choke is locked in!
15:57This looks very similar to what was happening to Jimmy
15:59a couple weeks ago!
16:00Indeed, and Jey Uso is forced to watch
16:02as his brother was choked out a bloody mess
16:05in the center of the ring!
16:06WWE fans trying to rally Jey Uso some way, somehow!
16:11Jey trying to make it to the rope!
16:12Gunther gonna turn it around now and lock it in!
16:15The eyes of Jey Uso slowly fade,
16:18and this is the last roll of the dice
16:20if he can't get to that rope!
16:22Jey trying to make it to the rope!
16:23Gunther doing a nice job blocking!
16:24Oh no!
16:25Cracks Jey back to the center of the ring,
16:27and now it's just a matter of time!
16:29Squeezing the soul out of the body of Jey Uso!
16:33Still scrambling!
16:34He made it to the rope!
16:35Jey made it to the ropes!
16:36Great move by Jey!
16:37Made it to the ropes!
16:38The official gives Gunther a five to break!
16:40I thought that was it, Wade!
16:42I thought Gunther was gonna do
16:44what he's done so many times in the past,
16:46and that's just make Jey Uso go night-night!
16:50Well, he ain't night-night quite yet,
16:52but things are getting incredibly close!
16:54That's him!
16:56That's him!
16:59Help!
17:02Gunther screaming at Uso,
17:04obviously frustrated,
17:07trying to figure out what he needs to do
17:09to put Jey away.
17:10A couple of vicious knees to the jaw of Jey Uso,
17:14and another chop,
17:15and Gunther's ticked off right now!
17:17You get hit with a title,
17:19your brain is scrambled,
17:20Jey Uso at this point completely defenseless,
17:23and starting to question the likelihood of Jey Uso's ongoing aliveness.
17:28You saw the official Sean Bennett again checking on Jey Uso,
17:31and Jey says,
17:32just bring it!
17:33And now another chop by Gunther!
17:35Uso is laughing!
17:36Jey Uso is laughing at the chops from Gunther!
17:39Jey Uso said,
17:40do you know the family I grew up in?
17:42You think you're going to be able to out-tough me?
17:44And another one walked right into that!
17:46Drops Jey to the knees!
17:47Not sure that was wise,
17:48but to your point,
17:49Jey might not have a clue where he's at!
17:51You can laugh at him!
17:52Oh!
17:53All you want,
17:54imminently,
17:55Jey Uso is going to start looking like Jimmy did several weeks ago!
17:58That's a really good point!
17:59Gunther promised he would bloody and bludgeon and batter Jey Uso in this match tonight!
18:06Gunther waiting for Jey to get back to his feet!
18:08Oh!
18:09Jey back to his feet!
18:10Nice blow by Uso!
18:11World champ!
18:12Wants on the left arm,
18:13and a shot to Jey!
18:15Caving them!
18:16And another down!
18:18Drops the challenger!
18:20At this point,
18:21Jey Uso clearly is not thinking like the normal Jey Uso,
18:26and the referee needs to keep a close eye on this!
18:29Part of the job of the referee,
18:30is to protect competitors when they can't protect themselves!
18:33It's a championship fight!
18:35Jey Uso's nowhere near quitting!
18:41Jey fighting back!
18:43There's been some physical,
18:45vicious championship matches,
18:47in all genres here in Las Vegas over the years!
18:50Gunther and Jey now,
18:52exchanging blows,
18:53like massive heavyweights in the middle of the ranks!
18:55What's gonna get here?
18:57And Gunther with a clothesline!
19:00Jey still at his feet!
19:01A clothesline to Gunther as well!
19:03Jey still standing tall!
19:05Big boot!
19:10And that'll knock the champ down!
19:12Jey Uso looking like a man possessed!
19:18This one!
19:20Through a toughness war!
19:23With Gunther in one!
19:25We talked about it on the countdown show,
19:26you never know when you're ever gonna get another opportunity at the world championship!
19:30You gotta take it when you can!
19:32And now Gunther from behind!
19:33The choke now on Uso!
19:35Able to duck from underneath!
19:36Nice German suplex by Jey!
19:38Jey!
19:41Jey taking a minute but he can't take too long!
19:44Gunther will take advantage!
19:46Jey going deep into the playbook tonight!
19:49Jey Uso is basically hitting Gunther's greatest hits on Gunther right now!
19:54That clothesline!
19:55That German suplex!
19:57Gunther, whatever he expected tonight, it certainly was not this!
20:03It was a great game plan developed here by Jey Uso!
20:06And Jey now there again!
20:07That's that big dinosaur dropkick!
20:09Drops the number one contender in his tracks!
20:12Gunther now, center of the ring!
20:15Hoisting Jey Uso up!
20:17Powerbomb!
20:18Jey able to counter!
20:19Jey counters!
20:20Jey's got Gunther!
20:21And a powerbomb of his own!
20:23Yes!
20:24Again!
20:25Pulling out moves from the repertoire of the champ!
20:29Studying film!
20:30Throwing his game!
20:32Jey just hit Gunther with a powerbomb and a superkick!
20:37And suddenly Uso's showing signs of life!
20:41A powerbomb to the ring general!
20:44Roman Reigns told us on Pat McAfee's show Friday how proud he was of Jey Uso in this opportunity tonight!
20:50Spear!
20:51Second of Roman Reigns!
20:52A spear by Jey!
20:54Gunther's down!
20:55Jey's gonna climb high!
20:57Go on Jey!
21:01Uso splash!
21:02Smart by Jey!
21:05One didn't get it done last time!
21:07So Jey is gonna try to develop another one here!
21:12A second Uso splash!
21:14Rolls through again Cole!
21:16I think he's thinking!
21:17Three!
21:18Uso!
21:19Going for the trifecta in Vegas!
21:21Connects this time to the back of Gunther!
21:23Gunther!
21:24Does Jey have a chance?
21:26Does Jey Uso have a chance for the upset of the year?
21:30Is Jey Uso about to be world champion?
21:33You're a better man!
21:34You're putting all on Jey Uso!
21:36And now Jey with a...
21:38With a...
21:39With a choke!
21:40With a sleeper!
21:41On Gunther!
21:42Turning Gunther's offense around him!
21:43Uso's got it locked in on Gunther!
21:45Gunther's made it!
21:46Gunther taps out!
21:47Jey Uso!
21:48Where's the damn title?
21:49And here's the damn title!
21:51Here is your winner!
21:54The New World Champion!