Jey Uso: Real Name, Age, Height, Family, Championships and WWE Career

For most of his career Jey Uso was the other one. The twin who tagged in. The man in the second entrance, in matching gear, whose job was to hold up half of a team that happened to be one of the best in wrestling history. Nobody, including the company that employed him, spent much of the 2010s wondering what he would be like on his own.Then a crowd in an arena somewhere started shouting a word at him, and everything changed. He is now a former World Heavyweight Champion, a Royal Rumble winner, and the only man in the Anoa’i family to have gone from a fifteen-year tag team career to a singles world title without ever really leaving his brother behind. He turned 41 six days before this page was updated, and he is in the middle of the most complicated storyline of his career.This page is the complete reference on Jey Uso: his real name, his age, his height, his family, every championship he has held, the Bloodline years, the feud with Roman Reigns, the record the Usos still own, what is actually happening with him in WWE right now, and the parts of his life that are on the public record rather than in a rumour.

Jey Uso: key facts

Jey Uso real name, age and height

Jey Uso’s real name is Joshua Samuel Fatu. The ring name is not a stage invention so much as a family word: uso means brother in Samoan, which is the entire idea behind the team he and his twin built.

Jey Uso age: how old is he?

He is 41. Joshua Fatu was born on 22 August 1985 in San Francisco, nine minutes after his twin brother Jonathan, who wrestles as Jimmy Uso. Their parents are Talisua Fuavai and the WWE Hall of Famer Solofa Fatu Jr., known to two generations of wrestling audiences as Rikishi.

Jey Uso height: how tall is he?

Six feet two inches, or 188 centimetres, billed at 242 pounds. Those are WWE’s numbers rather than an independent measurement, and billed weights in wrestling drift; the height has been consistent across his whole career.

Jey Uso family: the Anoa’i dynasty

It is difficult to overstate how much of Jey Uso’s career is a family matter. He is part of the Anoa’i family, the Samoan-American wrestling dynasty that has supplied professional wrestling with talent continuously since the 1970s, and almost every major storyline of his career has involved a relative.

Early life and the road to WWE

The twins grew up between California and Florida and attended Escambia High School in Pensacola, where both played competitive football. Joshua carried on at the University of West Alabama from 2003 to 2005 as a linebacker. Wrestling was not the plan so much as the fallback that was always in the room, given who their father was.Both brothers trained under Rikishi at the Wild Samoan Training Center, debuted in 2007, and signed with WWE, spending their developmental years in Florida Championship Wrestling. They arrived on the main roster in 2010 as The Usos, doing the Samoan Siva Tau before their matches, a ritual they performed from 2011 to 2016.

The Usos: the record that still stands

The single most durable fact about Jey Uso’s career is a number: 622 days. That is the length of the Usos’ fifth reign with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, and it is the longest male tag team title reign in WWE history. Nobody has come close since.The team was not an immediate success. They spent their first years as babyfaces in matching gear and were treated as a novelty act until a 2016 heel turn stripped out the face paint and the dancing and replaced it with something meaner. From that point they were the best tag team in the company and were treated as such.They became the first team to win both the Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Championships, and the first to hold both simultaneously as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. They headlined WrestleMania 39 Night 1, which is not a sentence anyone would have written about a tag team a decade earlier. They won the Slammy for Tag Team of the Year in 2014 and 2015, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them the number one tag team in the world in 2022.

The Bloodline, Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn

In July 2021 Jey and Jimmy joined their cousin Roman Reigns in The Bloodline, and wrestling television changed for three years. The stable was not built on a championship or a rivalry. It was built on a family that could not decide whether it was a family or a business, with Reigns as the Tribal Chief demanding acknowledgement and Jey as the relative who could never quite give it.The addition of Sami Zayn as the honorary Uso turned it into the most acclaimed storyline of the decade. ESPN, the New York Post and the Wrestling Observer all named the Bloodline material their storyline or feud of the year across 2022 and 2023, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated named it Faction of the Year. The moment Zayn was expelled and Jey walked out with him, and the night the group finally came apart on SmackDown, are the emotional peaks of the whole thing.

Jey Uso vs Roman Reigns

Their 2020 feud is the match that made Jey Uso a singles wrestler. He was slotted in as a last-minute challenger for Reigns’ Universal Championship, and the two of them turned a filler programme into a story about a man being asked to kneel to his own cousin. CBS Sports named it Feud of the Year for 2020. Jey lost every match. It did not matter; he came out of it a different performer.They met again inside Hell in a Cell, and again at Tribal Combat, and the arc did not resolve until Jey stopped chasing the acknowledgement and left. That decision, more than any title, is the spine of his career.

Main Event Jey and the “Yeet” phenomenon

The word means nothing. That is the point, and Jey has said as much. “Yeet” began as a throwaway noise and became one of the loudest audience participation moments in modern wrestling, to the extent that WWE built merchandise, entrance staging and eventually a nickname around it. Arenas now shout it back at him in unison before he has said anything.The move to Raw in 2023 as a singles act was the test of whether that noise translated into drawing power. It did. He beat Bron Breakker on the 23 September 2024 episode of Raw to win the Intercontinental Championship, the first singles title of his career, and lost it back to Breakker four weeks later.

World champion: the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 41

He entered the 2025 Royal Rumble at number twenty and won it, last eliminating John Cena. That bought him a world title match at WrestleMania 41 against Gunther, who had beaten him at Saturday Night’s Main Event a week before the Rumble and who had ended his King of the Ring run the previous year.At WrestleMania 41 he won by submission and became World Heavyweight Champion for the first time. He held the title for 51 days, defended it successfully against Seth Rollins and Logan Paul, and lost it back to Gunther on the 9 June 2025 episode of Raw. Fifty-one days is a short first world title reign by any standard, and the brevity is one of the standing criticisms of how WWE handled the run.What the reign did establish is that the crowd reaction was not a novelty. He main-evented a WrestleMania night, beat the most dominant champion of the era clean, and drew the loudest response of the weekend doing it.

Jey Uso championships and accomplishments

Eleven tag team title reigns, one world championship, one Intercontinental Championship, a Royal Rumble and a battle royal. The tag total is worth explaining, because two different numbers circulate: Jey personally has eleven reigns, nine of them alongside Jimmy as The Usos and two more with Cody Rhodes, which were held simultaneously as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.

The records

The 622-day SmackDown Tag Team Championship reign is the longest male tag team title reign in WWE history. The Usos were also the first team to win both the Raw and SmackDown tag titles and the first to hold them at the same time. Outside WWE, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked Jey sixth in its PWI 500 list of singles wrestlers for 2025, his highest placing.

Jey Uso career timeline

Jey Uso’s WrestleMania history

Jey Uso wife: Takecia Travis and the 2026 divorce filing

Jey Uso married Takecia Travis, his girlfriend from Escambia High School, on 13 February 2014. They have two sons. For twelve years the marriage was one of the more visible in WWE, with Travis a regular presence around his career.On 6 July 2026 Travis filed for divorce, stating in the filing that the marriage was irretrievably broken. That is the extent of what is on the public record. Neither party has made a detailed public statement, no financial terms have been reported, and this page does not carry speculation about the reasons. Anyone searching for Jey Uso’s wife should know the answer has changed this year and that the case is a filing rather than a concluded proceeding.He is of Samoan descent and has Polynesian tattoo work across his chest and both arms, which is visible in almost every photograph of him. He keeps three French Bulldogs.

Controversies and criticism

Two things belong here, and they are different in kind.The legal matter is a single incident. Fatu was arrested in January 2018 for driving while intoxicated in Hidalgo County, Texas, after a WWE live event, and was released the same day on a $500 personal recognisance bond. An arrest is not a conviction and this page has no record of the case’s disposition, so it is reported here as what it is.The professional criticism is louder and more current. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter named his WrestleMania XL match against Jimmy the Worst Match of the Year for 2024, and named him Most Overrated for 2025, the same year he won the Royal Rumble and a world title. That is an unusually blunt pair of awards for a performer at his commercial peak, and it captures a real split: he is one of the most over acts in the company with a section of the audience and hardcore wrestling criticism has been consistently unconvinced by his in-ring work. Both of those things are true at once and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.

Jey Uso current status and latest news

He is on Raw, he holds no championship, and he is in the middle of a Bloodline story in which he is no longer the one being summoned.The 2026 sequence runs like this. On the 8 December 2025 episode of Raw the twins announced they had reunited as The Usos. Three weeks later, on 29 December, they beat AJ Styles and Dragon Lee for the World Tag Team Championship, the ninth tag title reign in the team’s history. They lost it on 30 March 2026 to The Vision, Logan Paul and Austin Theory, in a street fight decided by interference from the streamer IShowSpeed, ending the reign at 91 days. At WrestleMania 42 Night 1 on 18 April the Usos and LA Knight beat The Vision and IShowSpeed to close the feud.After WrestleMania the Usos reunited with Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu and formally reformed The Bloodline. Jey reached the final of the King of the Ring in June and lost it to Oba Femi at Night of Champions on 27 June. At SummerSlam Night 1 on 1 August he, Jimmy and Fatu lost a six-man tag to LA Knight, Solo Sikoa and Royce Keys.

August 2026: the ula fala and Solo Sikoa

The current story is the interesting one. On the 10 August episode of Raw, Jey beat Solo Sikoa under a stipulation that forced his younger brother back into The Bloodline, with Jimmy interfering to seal it. The following week he delivered Sikoa to Reigns.Then the dynamic inverted. On the 24 August episode, Jacob Fatu argued backstage that he takes orders from Roman Reigns and nobody else. Jey produced an ula fala, the Samoan chiefly necklace that is the visual signature of the Tribal Chief, and told him he was running the plays now. The main event, the Usos against LA Knight and Solo Sikoa, ended in a no contest when Royce Keys and OTM debuted from NXT and attacked everyone in the ring. Reigns did not appear.The direction that suggests is obvious and has not been confirmed: a man who spent three years refusing to acknowledge the Tribal Chief appears to be positioning himself as one. WWE has not stated that, and this page is not going to treat an ula fala and a line of dialogue as a booking announcement.

Legacy

The case for Jey Uso is not the world title. Fifty-one days is a footnote. The case is that he is the most successful tag team wrestler of his generation who then became a main-event singles act in his late thirties, which almost nobody manages, and that he did it without the physical template WWE has historically promoted.The 622-day record will stand for a long time because the modern schedule does not produce reigns like that any more. The Bloodline is already the most critically decorated storyline of its decade, and his exit from it is the moment most people remember. And “Yeet” is the rarest thing in wrestling: a piece of audience participation that the performer did not design, the company did not plan, and the crowd will not stop doing.

What this page does not know

The divorce is a filing, not a settlement. No terms, no timeline and no statement from either party are on the public record, and nothing further will appear here until they are.The 2018 arrest has no reported disposition available to this page. He was arrested and released on bond; whether the charge was pursued, reduced or dismissed is not something this page can state.Where the current Bloodline story is going is unknown. The ula fala and the line about running the plays point one way; WWE has confirmed nothing, Reigns has been absent for two weeks of television, and the arrival of Royce Keys and OTM changes the board again. Anything published elsewhere as a confirmed plan is a report, not an announcement.No salary figure appears on this page. WWE contract terms are not public, the numbers in circulation are estimates from sites with no access to the contracts, and weekly Raw coverage tells you more about his standing than a guessed dollar amount would.

Jey Uso: frequently asked questions

Last updated

This page was last reviewed on 28 August 2026 and is current through the 24 August episode of Raw. Championship records, the career timeline and the current-status section are updated as his situation changes; the biographical and family sections do not change.