Jimmy further claimed that when he heard that he was supposed let his brother win, he even tried to push for the match to be squash instead, just to elevate Jey even further. “He was like, ‘Nah, we need something. We got to give them a little something!'” he recalled Jey saying, but remembered that the timing would still have gotten the better of them. “We can’t even cook the way y’all want us to cook. They ain’t ready for it, I said they ain’t ready for the squash!”

Despite this, Jimmy is still open to competing against his brother down the line, especially since the WrestleMania 40 match left him with a sour taste in his mouth. “You know, this Bloodline conflict? It’s always cooking. People like when we have conflict in the Bloodline, for some reason!” he pointed out. “This whole attitude with brothers? You know, don’t mistake ‘Big’ Jim’s kindness for weakness, you know? … I ain’t got too many steps to give to take back, no more. It’s not that time for me to put the foot down.”

He noted that he once had a conversation with Jey where he drew a line in the sand, and expressed that he doesn’t want to get to the point where he dislikes his brother, since that’ll lead to conflict. “Sometimes he need to be smacked across the head, smacked – you know what I’m saying – to wake up a little bit,” he suggested.

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