7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Jan 25)

By Scott Carlson /

1. New Day Hangs With The Great One

When the Rock makes a return to WWE for a segment, he often needs a sparring partner to bounce a couple lines off and ultimately eat a Rock Bottom. A couple years ago in Brooklyn, that someone was Lana and Rusev. This time around, the Rock went toe-to-toe with the WWE World Tag Team Champions, the New Day. And New Day did not disappoint, mocking Rock for forgetting who Byron Saxton was (wish we could forget him at times), reminding him that they whooped his cousins the Usos, and congratulating Rock for making like LeBron James and fleeing the €œdumpster fire€ of a city Miami. You could tell that Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods were having a ball out there going back and forth with Rock. A big point of pride had to come when Xavier got Rocky to crack a smile when he did a callback to Rikishi when he ran over Steve Austin because he €œdid it for the Rock.€ Of course, you knew Rock wasn€™t going to hold back, calling them €œuni-b*tches€ and suggesting that because Big E is so strong and nerdy that he was the offspring of the Incredible Hulk and Urkel.In the end, the Usos had to help their cousin out, and the trio cleaned house, but the segment showed that New Day could spar with the Rock just fine.