3 Ups & 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (June 6)

2. The New Day Gain Little In Victory

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SmackDown's matches were pretty lacklustre across the board this week, but The New Day vs. The Colons was one of the better affairs. It wasn't bad at all on a technical level, and both teams at least looked mechanically competent throughout. The layout dragged it down, however, and severely hindered any momentum Big E and Xavier Woods took from their eventual victory.

The match lasted seven minutes, with the two teams going 50/50 for much of that. This is an issue, as The Colons had won just a single Raw/SmackDown bout in 2017 prior to last night, while The New Day are pushed and marketed as WWE’s top tag team. Letting Primo & Epico control E & Woods, even for a few minutes, places the two teams on the same level, which diminishes The New Day rather than elevating The Colons.

If the goal here was simply to put The New Day over, a quick, two/three-minute squash match would have been much more effective. Instead, we got a typical back-and-forth affair with one of the lowest teams on the roster. Nobody emerged from this bout looking stronger than when they’d walked to the ring, marking this as a failure.

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