Current SmackDown Live Tag Team Champions Jimmy and Jey Uso recently appeared on the Edge and Christian podcast, where they talked about working with Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas as rookies, and how their experience with the World’s Greatest Tag Team has gotten them interested in working with the new team of Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin.
“Man, me personally, it’ll be interesting with this brand new tag team that just got here last week, Shelton and Gable. I said them because I ain’t never been in the ring with Shelton and our first practice, our first, like, ‘hey, you guys are wrestling – we’re getting you in the gym right now’ was Shelton and Charlie Haas, [they]dragged me and my brother to a 24 Hour Fitness, the first day, in Houston, Texas, before a contract, before even learning how to bump and they killed us in the gym, like, murdered us like mad men! And they did it on purpose to where you couldn’t even move. I was like, ‘holy hell!’ But I’ll never forget that and the second day, I was scared to go in the gym. It was the first time of being legit scared to go into a gym, man!
“The first time we ever locked up with Charlie Haas it was like a soft lockup. He was like, ‘do it again.’ We went to lock up again [and]‘boom’, snot came out our nose, ‘this is how you lock up.’ I was like, ‘what the? I don’t think I want to do this.’ Man, he gave me one of the hardest armdrags. I set in for an armdrag and he snapped me so fast, man.’ I was like, ‘okay.’ Now, I knew what I was getting into.”
You can check out the entire podcast right here.