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The New Day (professional wrestling)
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| Tag team | |
| Members | Kofi Kingston Xavier Woods |
| Name(s) | The New Day |
| Billed heights | Kingston: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Woods: 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Combined billed weight | 417 lb (189 kg) |
| Former member(s) | Big E |
| Debut | July 21, 2014 |
| Years active | 2014–present |
The New Day is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods. They are signed to WWE, where they perform on the Raw brand.
One of the most popular and decorated teams in WWE history, The New Day holds several records, including the most reigns as SmackDown Tag Team Champions at seven, and the longest-reigning Raw Tag Team Champions at 483 days. As a team, they also hold the record for most WWE-branded tag team championship reigns at 12 (seven SmackDown, four Raw, and one NXT)—the only team WWE recognizes with more is The Dudley Boyz at 18, but this includes their eight Extreme Championship Wrestling and one World Championship Wrestling tag team title reigns. While performing as a trio, The New Day defended their tag team titles under the Freebird rule, with all three members being recognized as champions.
The stable was prominently formed by Xavier Woods with Big E and Kofi Kingston on the July 21, 2014, episode of Raw, but made their debut as The New Day on the November 28, 2014, episode of SmackDown. In April 2015 at Extreme Rules, they won their first WWE Tag Team Championship. Their second reign, which began at that year's SummerSlam in August, became the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history, later surpassed by The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) title reign of 622 days.
The team also won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship a record seven times and Kingston and Woods won the NXT Tag Team Championship, becoming the third WWE Tag Team Triple Crown Champions. As singles wrestlers, both Kingston and Big E won the WWE Championship, while Xavier Woods won the King of the Ring tournament. In January 2022, Big E would be moved to SmackDown, thus becoming a trio again with Kingston and Woods; however, an injury incurred in March has kept Big E out of action indefinitely. In December 2024, after being away from the stable since his injury, Big E was expelled by Kingston and Woods during the stable's 10-year anniversary celebration.
The early months of the stable as stereotypical black gospel babyface characters were marked by largely negative reactions from fans and critics alike, but after transitioning their characters into heels fanatically obsessed with the nostalgia-style "power of positivity" in April 2015, they began to receive acclaim for their entertainment value, as well as for their in-ring performances.[1][2][3][4] In 2015, the trio were collectively named "WWE Wrestler of the Year" by Rolling Stone, while also being recognized as the "Best Gimmick" of the year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.[5][6] Additionally, they became the first trio to win the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for "Tag Team of the Year", doing so in 2015 and 2016 (the first two wins in a row in this category for two decades). Their new-found popularity resulted in the trio reverting to babyfaces in early 2016, which they remained as until December 2024, when Kingston and Woods reverted back to being heels after Big E’s firing from the group. The three, who are close friends in real life, also appear or work together outside of wrestling, notably writing the 2016 book The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It, and hosting a weekly podcast, Feel the Power (named after one of their catchphrases), since 2019. In 2021, The New Day topped WWE's list of the "50 Greatest Tag Teams" in the promotion's history.[7]
- ^ "WWE Wrestler(s) of the Year: The New Day". Rolling Stone. December 14, 2015.
- ^ "Jim Ross comments on Jimmy Snuka's arrest, WWE Tag Champs New Day going for laughs, Dolph Ziggler and Summer Rae locker room segment on Raw". prowrestling.net. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ Pruett, Will (December 2, 2014). "Pruett's Pause: WWE Raw - Laptop in charge, Seth Rollins and John Cena set up their main event program, A New Day's new day, Tag Team Turmoil, Luke Harper, and more!". Prowrestling.net. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ Ferguson, LaToya (March 31, 2015). "March 30, 2015 · WWE Monday Night Raw · TV Review · The A.V. Club". Avclub.com. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ "WWE Wrestler(s) of the Year: The New Day". Rolling Stone. December 14, 2015.
- ^ "The New Day's first Tag Team Championship reign".
- ^ "The New Day Tops List Of WWE's 50 Greatest Tag Teams". Wrestling Inc. June 30, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
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