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  • Beating the New Age Outlaws for the Tag Team Championship on the March 3, 2014 episode of Raw. Despite that episode having a rather…interesting subplot to it, this was a moment that was unequivocally awesome.
    • Considering that the group winning that championship fighting tag team after tag team for almost a year, it was well deserved.
  • Their entire feud with The Wyatt Family, especially their matches at Money in the Bank and Battleground.
  • Their promo on American Alpha on the 2/21/2017 episode of SmackDown. Their heel turn and makeover during the tournament for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships were already a breath of fresh air, but this roast of the reigning champs was easily the Usos' best promo in years, and it made fans who hadn't cared much for them sit up and take notice.
  • Whew, their entire series against The New Day in 2017. The two teams spent months trading barbs, blows, and titles, finally culminating in an incredibly brutal Hell In A Cell match, after which point the Usos and The New Day essentially agreed to a truce, reasoning that they couldn't up the ante any further without putting careers and lives at risk.
  • Their promo on the 1/30/2018 episode of SmackDown following their title defense at the Royal Rumble against "American Alpha 2" (as they call Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable). Maintaining the competitive pride and captivating swagger as they claimed superiority over every tag team while also relating their battles to the struggles of the common man, the Usos have managed to establish their "Day One Ish" personalities as true faces without losing the teeth of the gimmick. Many are calling this their best promo to date.
  • On the March 26th, 2019 SmackDown, Big E and Xavier Woods are forced to endure a five-team gauntlet match to get Kofi Kingston into the WWE Title match against champion Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35. With Big E and Woods exhausted after barely beating Anderson and Gallows, Nakamura and Rusev and the Bar, the duo are confronted by the Usos. They seem ready to put away the battered pair...only to get on the mic to announce how much they respect the New Day and count themselves as Kofi fans. They then forfeit their match to let the New Day get one more win, leaving them with just enough in the tank to take on Daniel Bryan and Erick Rowan.
  • At WrestleMania 39, Jimmy and Jey Uso make history in defending their Unified Tag Team Championships against Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens on the main event of Night One, making it the first time a Tag Team match has done so since the very first WrestleMania, much less for the Tag Team Championships. The Usos have gone from Pre-Show to Main Event in their illustrious career, becoming the 4th and 5th members of their legendary wrestling family, The Anoa'i Family, in main eventing the show. They have left their mark on the companies history, no doubt.
    • Not only that, but they have accomplished something that no one in their family, not even The Rock or Roman, have done, achieve their very first infamous 5-Star Dave Meltzer rating.
  • After three years of putting up with their sociopath cousin's abuse, with their resolve slowly being whittled away by Sami Zayn aggressively insisting that they could do so much better, Night of Champions 2023 finally saw the end of the road for the Bloodline, with Jimmy murdering Roman with two of the most satisfying superkicks in wrestling history. Vengeance is a slow burn, but so desperately cathartic when it finally happens.
    • Many expected Jey to pull the trigger, the one who suffered the most abuse for the longest time, instead it was Jimmy, the person Jey was putting himself through hell for. Jey eventually followed suit on the the June 16, 2023 edition of SmackDown, and to say that Roman had this betrayal coming would be a complete understatement.
  • Money in the Bank 2023: After three long years of cheating, manipulation, and abuse, the unthinkable finally happened in London, with Jey Uso - Roman's first enforcer, the effective founding member of the Bloodline, and the man who had suffered by far the most under his cousin's thumb - pinning Roman after a three-and-a-half year undefeated streak, finally winning his own vindication and dealing the Tribal Chief a final, mortal psychological blow.

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