6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (6 Nov - Results & Review)

4. Where Does New Day Go From Here?

Damian Priest Xavier Woods
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It doesn’t matter how often Michael Cole refers to the New Day as one of the most decorated tag teams in WWE history. If Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are beaten multiple times, that legacy loses its luster and beating them means about as much as anyone toppling former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal.

Kingston and Woods lost to Judgment Day in a non-title match Monday night, a result that previously would have felt like a bigger deal, but in 2023, it might as well have been the Brawling Brutes or the LWO who were defeated.

The two New Day members lost their singles feud(s) with Ivar, which was a good way to put the Viking Raider on the map as a solo act, but after beating Alpha Academy a couple of weeks ago, they came out Monday and lost a pretty average match to the tag champs. There was no fanfare, no hype, no glitz to it.

Sadly, New Day might just be in that rut where they’re a popular act, but fans aren’t living and dying by how they fare as a tag team. They’re still fantastic wrestlers, so hopefully WWE has plans for them, because sending them out to lose when the division has several really solid teams is a scary proposition.

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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.