Considering how often fans call for WWE to push someone different, its odd to turn around and criticize the company for tapping new champions. But when they take the WWE Tag Team Championships off a still-ascending New Day for longtime toiling duo the Prime Time Players, you have to question it. One development that would justify this move would be to see the New Day slide further away from their message of positivity. We saw a hint of it before the tag title match when Xavier Woods nearly told off the audience before Big E clapped him back to his senses. Woods also noted that Kofi Kingston was being robbed of world title opportunities after failing to win numerous MITB matches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooGJ84yYw8 Despite that possibility and the feel-good moment of Darren Young and Titus ONeil finally capturing gold, it just felt rushed taking the titles off New Day like this, both in terms of a short build to the match and a short match itself. It just didnt feel right, but congrats to PTP nonetheless.
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.
