Ranking The Only Remaining Main Roster Stars From WWE’s FIRST EVER Performance Centre Class

4. Xavier Woods

Xavier Woods
WWE

Very little of The New Day's phenomenal success would have been possible without the creativity and energy of Xavier Woods. The UpUpDownDown doyen took a middling (and marginally problematic) new stable concept with ailing midcarders Kofi Kingston and Big E and turned it into a Day-Glo money-printing machine.

Cereals begat ice cream begat ice cream begat pancakes begat t-shirts and mortgage money, with the trio still not out of steam nearly three years into the gimmick. A record-setting title reign even legitimised the silliness - a deserved honour considering an excellent in-ring 2017 for Woods in particular.

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