When the Rock makes a return to WWE for a segment, he often needs a sparring partner to bounce a couple lines off and ultimately eat a Rock Bottom. A couple years ago in Brooklyn, that someone was Lana and Rusev. This time around, the Rock went toe-to-toe with the WWE World Tag Team Champions, the New Day. And New Day did not disappoint, mocking Rock for forgetting who Byron Saxton was (wish we could forget him at times), reminding him that they whooped his cousins the Usos, and congratulating Rock for making like LeBron James and fleeing the dumpster fire of a city Miami. You could tell that Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods were having a ball out there going back and forth with Rock. A big point of pride had to come when Xavier got Rocky to crack a smile when he did a callback to Rikishi when he ran over Steve Austin because he did it for the Rock. Of course, you knew Rock wasnt going to hold back, calling them uni-b*tches and suggesting that because Big E is so strong and nerdy that he was the offspring of the Incredible Hulk and Urkel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvWhmifX0uI In the end, the Usos had to help their cousin out, and the trio cleaned house, but the segment showed that New Day could spar with the Rock just fine.
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.
