12 Ups And 15 Downs For WWE In 2016

7. New Day Sets A Record

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Back when CM Punk openly bragged about his ongoing WWE Championship reign, this writer took a minute to look at other titles’ longest reigns. Demolition’s tag title reign stood out as an “unbreakable” record, simply because of the fluid nature of the tag team division.

So when New Day came along and held the titles from SummerSlam 2015 well into December 2016, it truly was something to behold. Along the way, Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods went from goofy heel act to virtuous – yet goofy – babyfaces, to champs desperate to hold onto their titles for a few weeks longer, by any means necessary.

For a time, New Day was the most popular act on Raw, and they managed to keep themselves relevant for much of their record-setting, 483-day title run. They turned a trombone into a useful part of a wrestling arsenal, and they got their own cereal (along with some great, unique merchandise). For all of that, New Day certainly does indeed rock.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.