8 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (16 Sept - Results & Review)

5. Woods Loses Faith

New Day is rapidly approaching a feat almost never seen in wrestling anymore: a tag team/stable in existence for a decade without any betrayals or breakups.

But that road got a lot bumpier Monday night when New Day lost a World Tag Team Championship match against the Judgment Day that they seemingly had in hand from the jump. Xavier Woods was rolling off a hot tag when the rest of Judgment Day showed up and were immediately cut off by the LWO. This threw Woods off momentarily, but he recovered and dropped an elbow… only to find there was no referee.

With Kofi Kingston taken out via a trust fall, Xavier fell victim to a double team and lost, then snapped at Kofi, saying that something needs to change (which sounds eerily similar to what he said a decade ago before the New Day formed).

Backstage, fans learned that Kingston had asked the LWO to have their backs, which ran counter to Woods, who begged the Terror Twins and Jey Uso to not come out even if the Judgment Day tried to interfere. When asked why they needed help, Kofi invoked the absent Big E, leading to Xavier storming off at not being included in Kingston’s plans.

While some would assume this will lead to a (full or teased) breakup, there could be a lot more at work here with the void created by E being specifically referenced. New Day deserves the latitude to tell this story and see where things go next. It finally feels like a real, deeper story than just “Karrion Kross is trying to break up the New Day.”