WrestleMania is on the horizon. The festivities will be endless, from the two-night premium live event to the Slammys to all the independent shows happening in the week before. WWE has a predicament on its hands with Jey Uso. The “Main Event” has found himself the target of criticism in recent weeks. After shocking the world by winning the Royal Rumble, Uso has since infamously botched a dive and has been told onscreen by brother Jimmy to step it up.

The Jey Train is running full-speed ahead on a crash course in Las Vegas. WWE has two choices: bail out from plans for Jey to defeat Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship, meaning the Royal Rumble was for nothing, or give a wrestler whose recent character development has revolved around botches and cutting the same “everybody’s doubting me” promo. On its face, it’s a lose-lose situation.

There may be only one way to save this storyline and the first seeds of this Creative Control Card edition were planted just hours ago. Here is how Jey Uso will ascend to the mountaintop… and the dubious means by which he gets there.

Build to WrestleMania 41

Jey Uso takes what Jimmy Uso told him in Glasgow to heart. “Main Event” Jey Uso has accomplished next to nothing in the singles division. He may have won the Intercontinental Championship, but he lost it back to Bron Breakker as fast as he won it from him. Jey’s biggest accomplishments were with someone else, whether it was Jimmy or his tag title run with Cody Rhodes.

Jey knows he can’t beat Gunther if he gives it all he can. He will need everything he can muster, and then some. After Gunther beats Jimmy on RAW next week, he teaches him a lesson about why you don’t slap the champion. Jey comes in and superkicks Gunther. He lines him up for a spear, but Gunther gets out of the way. Jey spears his brother instead. This keeps Jimmy out through WrestleMania.

The accidental finishing off of Jimmy gets to Jey and he starts losing it. He starts discovering what “and then some” will mean at WrestleMania. He superkicks Grayson Waller off a loading dock and spears Austin Theory off the stage and through a table. He finds Ludwig Kaiser and starts bashing him with a trash bin. Gunther finds Kaiser in a heap backstage and resolves to avenge his Imperium stablemate at WrestleMania.

WrestleMania 41, Night Two opener

It is a see-saw affair in the opener for night two in Las Vegas. Jey Uso gets in a good bit of offense but is shut down by chops from Gunther. The defending champion kicks out of Jey’s superkick-spear-splash combination at one. Jey is in disbelief. The two then begin alternating near falls. Jey barely kicks out of a powerbomb. Gunther kicks out of another superkick-spear-splash combo. Both men are winded about 20 minutes in.

Jey’s done everything he could. Now it’s time for the “and then some.” Gunther lines Jey up for a missile dropkick, but Jey drags the referee into harm’s way. The referee is out cold. Gunther stares down Jey, who appears to be gassed. Jey catches a second wind and starts the comeback with a low blow. He throws Gunther to the outside and whips him into the steel steps twice. He grabs the ring bell and, though he initially misses, hits Gunther square in the face with it. Jey brings an unconscious Gunther back into the ring and hits him with one more splash as the referee comes to. Jey hooks the leg and gets a slow one… two… three count. Jey Uso is your new World Heavyweight Champion and is celebrating, showing no remorse for his illegal use of weapons.

WrestleMania 41 main event

The main event is going strong and John Cena and Cody Rhodes are at their limits. Rhodes hits Cena with a Cross Rhodes, but as the referee starts counting The Rock’s voice booms over the sound system. He tells referee Charles Robinson if he counts the three count in favor of Cody Rhodes, he is fired. Rock and Robinson start getting into an argument when suddenly Jey Uso’s music hits! He’s here to even the score and help out his best friend Cody Rhodes… or is he?!

Jey Uso low blows Cody Rhodes! He’s sold his soul to The Rock, too! Rock hits Charles Robinson with a Rock Bottom to ensure he does not throw out the match, then hits Cody Rhodes with three Rock Bottoms. He rips off his jacket to reveal a referee shirt. He ushers for Cena to cover Rhodes and he does. Rock counts a quick one, two, three. Not only is John Cena the new Undisputed WWE Champion, but Jey Uso has aligned himself with The Rock as well.

RAW after WrestleMania 41 opening segment

The Rock opens the show and introduces his two new champions: John Cena and Jey Uso. Rock proclaims that these two are his idea of what a WWE champion should be. Cena and Jey are both marketable, charismatic athletes. So what if they aren’t the most technically gifted wrestlers on the roster? They sell merchandise, they get butts in seats; they keep the sports entertainment giant afloat.

After Cena receives a chorus of boos and berates the fans for not celebrating his history-making accomplishment, it’s Jey’s turn on the microphone. The crowd’s voices are already getting hoarse from booing but they keep going. Jey calls the fans who hate him “ungrateful” and his own fans “mindless fools” for falling for his schtick hook, line, and sinker. He thanks Rock for granting him the opportunity to become his champion. He never calls himself “your World Heavyweight Champion” or anything of the like, he only calls himself The Rock’s champion.

Rock then drops a bombshell on the crowd at T-Mobile Arena: he rigged the Royal Rumble and inserted Cena into the Elimination Chamber. Jey and Cena were in on this, too, as well as some other guys. Logan Paul is revealed to have been a hired gun for The Rock as well, seeing as he eliminated the top threat to Rock’s plan: CM Punk. Austin Theory and Grayson Waller also agreed to take a nice paycheck from Rock in exchange for jobbing to Jey. Rock promises a new era of sports entertainment that will be to his liking, in his image. Rock, Cena, and Jey all leave.

RAW after WrestleMania 41 main event

Jey Uso runs into a returning Jimmy Uso. Jimmy looks at his brother in disbelief. He reveals he got Adam Pearce to book a match for the World Heavyweight Championship. It will be a WrestleMania 40 runback… or will it? Jey enters first, which is unusual for a championship match. Jimmy’s music never hits… because The Rock drags a bloodied Jimmy Uso out to the entrance ramp. Jimmy Uso cannot compete tonight and it’s because The Final Boss did not allow it.

Adam Pearce has already had it up to here and he declares the match will go on. He knows a guy who’s been hungry for this opportunity for months: Ilja Dragunov. Dragunov returns and makes a great first impression with Rock by staring him down as he marches to the ring. Rock is livid, but the match begins. Halfway through, the bell rings out of nowhere. Rock gets on the microphone and says he’s seen enough.

He sics Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga on Ilja Dragunov, thereby throwing out the match. Security is out there but, as usual, fails to quell the chaos. Adam Pearce makes his move and declares Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga are indefinitely suspended. Rock then tells Adam Pearce he is, as of this moment, fired. Rock then hits Pearce with a Rock Bottom, then gets Sikoa and Tonga to powerbomb Pearce through the announce table. Jey enters a feud with Dragunov for the next few months as he fights to keep The Rock’s WWE alive.

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