The New Day (wrestling)

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The New Day is a professional wrestling tag team performing in the IWE, composed of Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods. The trio are the current IWE Tag Team Champions, in their second reign. During their reigns, The New Day defends the titles under the Freebird Rule, with all three members being recognized as champions.

The stable originally debuted in a July 2014 episode of Raw, but made their official television debut as The New Day in November 2014. They won their first IWE Tag Team Championship in 2015 at Extreme Rules, with Big E and Kingston gaining the victory. They became two-time tag team champions by winning the titles again later that year at SummerSlam.

The early months of the stable were marked by overwhelming negative reactions to their personas from fans and critics alike, however after turning heel in April 2015 they began to receive acclaim for being entertaining, as well as for their in-ring performances. In 2015, the trio were collectively named "IWE Wrestler of the Year" by Rolling Stone, while also becoming the first trio to win the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for Tag Team of the Year and being recognized as the Best Gimmick of the year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

History

Background and formation

IWE (Raw) Tag Team Champions (2015–2016)

Characters and reception

In wrestling

• Double team finishing moves
  • Midnight Hour (Big Ending (Big E) and diving DDT (Kingston or Woods) combination)
  • Pendulum backbreaker (Big E, Kingston or Woods) / diving double foot stomp (Kingston or Woods) combination
• Double team and triple team signature moves
  • Unicorn Stampede (Multiple stomps to a seated opponent in the corner with frequent tags), often followed by an Irish whip-assisted corner dropkick
• Big E's finishing moves
  • Big Ending (Over the shoulder cutter)
  • Running splash – also used as a signature move
• Kingston's finishing moves
  • Trouble in Paradise (Jumping corkscrew roundhouse kick)
  • SOS (Ranhei) – also used as a signature move
• Woods' finishing moves
  • Lost in the Woods (Inverted stomp facebreaker)
  • Shining Wizard
• Nicknames
  • "The Unicorns"
• Entrance themes
  • "New Day, New Way" by Jim Johnston (November 28, 2014–present)

Championships and accomplishments

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Tag Team of the Year (2015)
  • Ranked Big E No. 24 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2014
  • Ranked Kofi Kingston No. 42 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
  • Ranked Xavier Woods No. 58 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2016
• Rolling Stone
  • IWE Wrestlers of the Year (2015)
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Best Gimmick (2015)
  • IWE Raw Tag Team Championship (2 time, longest reigning)¹

¹ Big E, Kingston and Woods defend the title under the Freebird Rule.

References

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