The Usos dropped a grenade into Andrade’s lap with their “we draw” message, and fans immediately started arguing over exactly who they were talking about. But while social media was busy turning the line into a full-blown debate, the reaction behind the curtain in WWE was apparently a whole different story.
This all started after Andrade took aim at what he believes is a massive double standard inside WWE. As Ringside News previously covered, Andrade questioned why some Samoan wrestlers seem to get chance after chance while Mexican talent has to fight much harder for the same opportunities.
Andrade made it clear he wasn’t talking about Roman Reigns, who he acknowledged became a legitimate top star. His gripe was with the wrestlers who, in his view, kept getting opportunities without producing the same results.
“There are several of them who haven’t, and they give them opportunities and give them opportunities, and they’re still there, they’re still there, they’re still there.”
Andrade then really dug the knife in, claiming WWE can keep throwing opportunities at someone until they finally become a star if the company decides that person is worth the investment.
“There are wrestlers that WWE has given opportunities to 20, 30 times, and they keep them there until they make them stars. No matter how bad you are, no matter how bad you might be, when they want to make you, they make you.”
Then The Usos apparently had enough. The brothers jumped on Twitter with a message that appeared to be aimed directly at Andrade, and they didn’t exactly come armed with diplomacy.
“We draw. That’s the difference between us and them. Stop b****** and do sum shi”*
That “us and them” line immediately got people talking. Some fans wondered whether The Usos were drawing a line between Samoan and Hispanic wrestlers, especially considering Andrade’s original complaint was specifically about Mexican talent getting fewer chances.
That’s where the backstage reaction gets interesting. During a Fightful Select Q&A, Sean Ross Sapp was asked whether Jey Uso’s comment sounded like he was implying Hispanics couldn’t draw and whether that created any heat inside WWE. Apparently, the answer was nowhere near as dramatic as the internet made it out to be.
“No, it wasn’t even a blip on the radar. Nobody brought it up to me. I had to ask after seeing your comment. Almost all the responses I got were along the lines of most people don’t care about this kind of thing. But nobody thought he was talking about Hispanics. They just thought he was talking about literally everyone but his own family.”
That’s a pretty brutal reality check for anyone expecting some huge locker-room controversy. Sapp said nobody came to him complaining about the tweet. In fact, he had to go asking around himself just to find out what people thought about it. And when he did, the answer was basically the same across the board: the people he spoke with didn’t take The Usos’ message as a shot at Hispanic wrestlers at all. They took it as The Usos putting over their own family and telling everybody else to step up.
That doesn’t mean Andrade’s original comments went away quietly. The former WWE star later fired back at a fan who accused him of “crying” over WWE’s treatment of Samoan wrestlers, while D-Von Dudley also questioned why Andrade felt the need to specifically single out Samoan wrestlers.
The Usos never actually said Andrade’s name either, which technically gives them an easy out if they ever want one. But come on — Andrade fires off a complaint about Samoan wrestlers getting more chances, and then The Usos suddenly tweet “we draw.” Nobody needed a detective badge to connect those dots.
Fans turned it into a war over race, opportunity and who actually puts asses in seats. Backstage in WWE, though, it sounds like most people barely bothered to look up from their phones.
That may be the funniest part of this whole mess. Andrade threw a shot at WWE’s opportunity system, The Usos apparently fired one right back, the internet exploded — and inside WWE, it barely moved the needle.
What do you make of the backstage reaction to The Usos’ message, and did you read “us and them” differently when you first saw it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
