6 Ups And 6 Downs For WWE Day 1

2. Familiarity Breeds Success

WWE Day 1 Usos New Day
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When you look at a PPV card and see that New Day and the Usos are set to square off, you pretty much can count on a really good tag match.

Even Saturday’s bout, which started off slow and methodical, picked up the pace and reached a fever pitch with double teams, false finishes and some just genuinely good crowd-pleasing action. Kofi Kingston went for a Trouble in Paradise, only to be met with a superkick and splash combo for a close call. Jey Uso kicked out of Daybreak to keep the match alive. King Woods saved after a double superkick/double splash put Kofi out.

And let’s not forget that the Usos finally won the match with… a 3D. Yep, Jimmy and Jey used the Dudley Boyz’s finisher to put Kingston down, which was pretty fun, and honestly, it was a smart move after nothing else had put the match away.

Now, let’s get these two teams apart. They’ve faced each other five time in the past nine-plus weeks, not counting singles bouts. That’s getting a bit out of hand.

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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.