Ranking The New Day's WWE Ring Attires - From Worst To Best
Neon Bible
Wrestling attire is brilliant.
It's a good job the matches between Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and Triple H were so utterly scintillating at the peak of the Attitude Era, because curious channel-hoppers couldn't find the utopian neon dreamscape wrestling had sold them generations earlier. An understated aesthetic was even an vital part of 'The Rattlesnake's appeal - he derided Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart during his ascendency as a heel for their "stupid coloured tights, sissy sparklers and all that other crap", and spoke earnestly of his "black trunks and black boots" once his working class babyface character was solidified.
Indeed, though wrestling had once broke the night with colour, its richest period was without such flare. WWE poached WCW Nitro's girders-and-pyro aesthetic and created a blackened War Zone on Monday Nights. The Atlanta outfit unintentionally dulled their own flames as they fell behind, switching out the 90s vibrancy for Vince Russo's so-called reality. Grey rings (grey!) fittingly denoted a product past its prime, though the final ever Nitro's Spring Break veneer was a reminder of the company at their creative best.
It seems as though the true glory wrestling gear has been reintroduced by millennials that watched their wrestling washed with colour. Those pesky, placid, video game-playing nerds backstage Vince McMahon less-than-subtly derided in his infamous 2014 podcast interview with Austin himself. Those pesky, placid, video game-playing merch-shifting megastars like The New Day. This list may start with a "Worst", but that's really just a relative term...
25. New Day Sucks! (Red)
The ugliest of the gear inspired by their original incarnation, The New Day were still mostly comedy heels as they sported a red, green, gold and black ensemble seemingly designed to match the one t-shirt they'd managed to score at the time. It too was too dull to inspire anything more dynamic than this relatively basic design.