Predicting Where All Current WWE Champions Will Be In 12 Months
7. SmackDown Tag Team Champions - The New Day
Still fighting the Usos, at this rate. The New Day’s rivalry with Jimmy and Jey has produced some of WWE’s best in-ring work of 2017, but they MUST move on after their final chapter at Hell in a Cell to avoid interest levels in the unicorn-loving trio dropping.
They are not as popular as they used to be, but the New Day are way more valuable to WWE as a unit than any of them are individually. Neither Big E, Kofi Kingston, or Xavier Woods would be competing for world championships as singles stars, so WWE will see little point in splitting this merchandise-selling machine unless things really take a turn for the worse.
Fresh competition is what the longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions need to keep them engaging. Hopefully the Authors of Pain and the Revival will supply that.
WWE will aim to return the New Day to their 2016 heights in the next year, positioning them as not only Tag Team Champions, but as one of the biggest attractions on SmackDown.