6 Ups & 4 Downs For WWE Raw (28 July - Results & Review)

3. Swing And A Miss

More than seven months have passed since the New Day turned heel in one of the most shocking moments in recent wrestling history.

With the exception of a few fleeting glimmers of hope, much of the past seven months has been a disappointment with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, who should be a hated, major act on Raw, not a tandem relegated to boring backstage segments. Monday, they were (apparently) seconding Grayson Waller as he bowed up to Sheamus backstage before abandoning him mid-confrontation, leaving the Aussie to face – and lose to – Sheamus on his own.

This entire “New Day is in mourning” gimmick is just strange, showing little signs of going anywhere. And Waller glomming onto them is such an odd arrangement. Maybe all of this will click and make sense one day, rendering all of these critiques moot, but WWE has not engendered a lot of faith with the New Day story to “let it play out.”

Fortunately, Kingston and Woods are excellent performers who still can deliver in the ring, so if there’s an act that can turn this around quickly, it would be the New Day.

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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.