The New Day are one of the greatest factions in professional wrestling history, so now that The Club are back together in WWE, imagine how good a feud between these two teams would be.
Kofi Kingston is in the midst of an all-time great run with the WWE Championship, so The New Day’s stock has never been higher. That’s saying something, too, because they have been one of the centerpieces of WWE programming over the last handful of years. A legendary faction, Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods have put on countless in-ring classics and even more memorable promos or backstage segments.
Meanwhile, The Club are back in business after disbanding in 2016, too soon after they were created. AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson are at their best when they’re all together, and they have the potential to be one of wrestling’s best heel factions.
So imagine how good a rivalry between The New Day and The Club would be. All six of these men are capable of putting together amazing single, tag, or trios matches against each other, and there are almost an innumerable amount of reasons why this should happen.
But let’s just pick three for now.
We need more trios matches in WWE
Because WWE likes to lump all their women together to get them on television without actually developing storylines or matches with stakes, we’ve seen plenty of six-women tag matches that are great matches but don’t last long enough. On the men’s side, we rarely see well-done six-men tag matches, even though a damn good trios match is difficult to top.
The psychology of trios matches are special since they are more fast-paced and can involve more creative spots with so many moving pieces involved. WWE is wisely more measured with how they present their product when it comes to pacing matches or selecting big moves or highspots, and The New Day and The Club have individuals who can fit their matches into this style.
But these superstars are also capable of going all-out, and it would be exciting to see some six-man classics involving these teams. Remember The New Day vs. The Shield at Survivor Series 2017? Yeah, this could be like that except for weeks.
Kofi Kingston vs. AJ Styles
The rivalry between Kofi Kingston and Daniel Bryan leading up to WrestleMania 35 has to go down as one of the best feuds in WWE history, with the match itself being an absolute masterpiece. Kingston has solidified himself as one of the best in-ring performers in the world, as his feud with Bryan showed that he is right there on the level of Bryan or AJ Styles; it’s just that being in a tag team prevented him from getting enough love as a singles competitor.
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Right now, it should be obvious that Kingston is one of the world’s best, and it’s why his WWE Title reign has been so good. Therefore, it would be a treat to watch him test his skills against AJ Styles, who held the WWE Championship for a year before dropping it to the “New” Daniel Bryan prior to Survivor Series 2018.
Kingston vs. Styles wouldn’t just be excellent in the ring. Whether it’s flipping off Samoa Joe as a way of standing up for himself or inspiring the masses with the Power of Positivity, Kofi has been delivering memorable moments on the mic for months. Styles is also quite good at promos when he’s a heel, as he fills the “cocky jerk” role well, whereas he comes up short in his attempts to be a genuinely inspiring babyface.
In this way, Kingston and Styles would juxtapose quite nicely, and they could potentially have a stellar WWE Championship rivalry that serves as the centerpiece for the larger feud between The New Day and The Club. After all, these two men already showed they can put on a classic in the ring together. Just look at what happened in their Gauntlet Match on SmackDown.
The New Day can boost The Club’s cred as a heel faction
Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and AJ Styles are established names globally in professional wrestling and don’t necessarily need additional credibility when it comes to the believability of them, say, holding all the gold. But the risk with a stable as talented as The Club is that they become too cool and too well-liked as heels, which WWE generally likes to avoid.
That won’t be an issue against The New Day, because there isn’t a single faction that is as universally loved as this trio. Immediately, any heel tag team worth their salt will be able to generate heat from the audience in a rivalry with The New Day, and, thus, The Club wouldn’t have any problems asserting themselves as WWE’s most villainous force.
There’s also the fact that Big E, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston can get the most out of The Club on the mic. Gallows and Anderson are two incredibly talented talkers, and AJ can hold his own on the mic as a heel. But in the past, the segments between these two teams left something to be desired, partially since The Club need The New Day to be the ones to take the lead.
The New Day, as the babyfaces, can be witty, incisive, and likable, drawing out the worst in The Club. Gallows, Anderson, and Styles will have to be ruthless and odious when feuding with WWE’s top babyface faction, and the rewards could be plentiful for one of wrestling’s most recognizable trios.