7 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (5 Aug - Results & Review)

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7. New Day Gets Backup

After more than a year of languishing in WWE purgatory, Odyssey Jones finally made an impact on Raw Monday night.

Plucked from NXT last year in the Draft and then doing nothing of note, Jones came to the aid of the New Day after Karrion Kross interfered, allowing Xavier Woods to get the pin. Afterward, AOP attacked Woods and Kofi Kingston, but Odyssey took out Akam, Rezar, and Kross in impressive fashion, providing that much-needed backup to thwart the Final Testament.

For Jones, this is a big move, going from being a dark match guy to being paired up with one of WWE’s most popular acts of the past decade. It’s too early to speculate about whether Jones is being groomed to take on the role that Big E has occupied in the group since its inception, or if he’s just a friend of the group, but this was an effective way to bring him on-board… plus it meant the Final Testament was sent to the showers.

Backstage afterward, Woods looked skeptical of Odyssey and wondered aloud when Jones and Kofi became friends (it was at the PC while Kingston was rehabbing). Here’s hoping this doesn’t become a source of drama and Xavier doesn’t start wondering if Kross was right all along – that storyline was death from the jump, and restarting it isn’t going to work.