WWE: Fantasy Booking The New Day Versus The Undisputed Era
The New Day need new challengers for their title and WWE Creative should look no further than NXT for the next group of men to face them.
To say that the New Day are tag team specialists would be an understatement. This past Tuesday we witnessed Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E celebrate their third SmackDown title and fifth overall.
When this group was first put together back in 2014 they were met with disinterest. From there, the New Day has become one of the most entertaining groups in professional wrestling, both in and out of the ring. As we prepare to find out their next challengers, perhaps it’s time to call up a group to challenge them and their “undisputed” titles.
On SmackDown the New Day are awaiting new challengers that will come in the form of either the Bar, Usos, Rusev Day or Sanity. Each one of them comes with their own interesting storyline and characters. We know that the New Day paired with the Bar and Usos translates into an amazing match; they’ve delivered every time.
Sanity and Rusev Day are a new piece of the equation; intriguing in their own right. But what if WWE Creative took a different direction that featured Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong? That has the potential to be something new and special at the same time.
The Undisputed Era is tearing things up in NXT. The two-time tag team champions are a shoe-in for match of the night every time they step between the ropes. The combination of Strong and O’Reilly was the perfect solution when Fish went down to injury.
While they are still champions, WWE Creative can use this opening on SmackDown as an opportunity to bring them in as immediate challengers to the New Day.
The path to get to this situation is quite simple: the run in. WWE Creative uses the run in to introduce new names or create new feuds almost every month. Let the current storyline play out until a new number one contender is found for the New Day.
During that match, the Undisputed Era hits the ring to cause havoc; quite the same way they did when they hit the NXT scene back at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III. Leaving the New Day and their eventual challengers lying in the middle of the ring with the fans cheering their names is the exact type of introduction that would immediately get this group over with the fans.
Cole, Strong, O’Reilly and Fish (when he returns) are each capable stars that would flourish on the SmackDown brand. When Cole was a surprise entrant at this year’s Royal Rumble, we saw that fans were already aware of whom he was and the cache that comes with his name.
Inserting him and his team into a feud with some of the best performers in the WWE today is the best way to help this group come into the main roster with a wealth of momentum. WWE Creative has struggled to translate stars from NXT to the main roster and this route is a sure fire way to do things correctly with the Undisputed Era.
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Even though the WWE has followed a pretty standard practice for calling up names from NXT to the main roster, the need for new challengers to face the New Day creates an opening to do something different with the Undisputed Era. Whether its tag team, singles or six-man style; these two groups would easily put on the best WWE content, week in and week out.