7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw

2. Never The Same Again

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That’s how the announcers described New Day in the aftermath of their battle with the Wyatt Family at their compound last week. They said Kofi Kingson, Big E and Xavier Woods were deeply affected by what happened – as they were skipping down to ringside and making jokes.

Even AJ Styles tried to jump in on the action, saying that Xavier (who had been the one New Day member concerned about confronting Bray Wyatt) was scared of the Wyatts, with Xavier responding that they’re not normal men. He then later described himself as a level 21 Pokemon trainer and started reciting Pokemon characters. Sounds like someone who was traumatically affected by his run-in with the Wyatt Family.

You can’t have it both ways. New Day certainly could have come out of the encounter battered physically and mentally and showed it, or they could have brushed it off and said they were too battle-hardened to let it affect them. Instead, they basically acted like nothing happened, while the announcers lamented that they were drastically affected. For God’s sake, pick one.

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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.