The New Day, one of the most exuberant SmackDown Tag Team Champions in WWE history, does not yet have tag challengers for WWE TLC 2019. The following will predict three possible opponents for the SmackDown Tag Team Champions on a PPV that is surely not well known for tender loving care.
Imagine eating pancakes at IHOP with The New Day. Whoever does it will enjoy and appreciate humorous jokes, compelling stories, and most importantly the power of positivity.
Quite frankly, these are the same aspects the WWE Universe enjoys and appreciates about The New Day every time they speak on the mic and wrestle in the ring. Because of this, The New Day has a fulfilling connection with the fans that no other superstar, tag team, and faction can neither mimic nor replace.
Indeed, this is the principal reason The New Day are the current SmackDown Tag Team Champions. Originally, Big E and Xavier Woods dethroned Daniel Bryan and Erick Rowan at Extreme Rules 2019 in July. It was expected that they would hold onto the championship for a prolonged period of time, but they lost the Tag Team Championships to The Revival in their very first title defense at Clash of Champions 2019.
In their quest to win the tag championships back, Woods unfortunately got injured after Kofi Kingston lost the WWE Championship to Brock Lesnar. Henceforth, Kingston and Big E teamed up to win the tag team championships back from The Revival on SmackDown two weeks ago.
This victory was not only seen as a tribute to Xavier Woods’ incredible contributions to The New Day whilst he recovers from his debilitating injury but also a consolation prize for Kingston after losing his WWE Championship to Lesnar on a SmackDown in less than ten seconds.
Nonetheless, The New Day have drawn their attention away from the WWE Championship, and the following will identify and pontificate three potential challengers for their SmackDown Tag Team Championships at WWE TLC 2019.
3.) The Revival
After losing the SmackDown Tag Team Championships to The New Day two weeks ago, they got their rematch last week on SmackDown. Unfortunately, that championship rematch ended inconclusively due to The Undisputed Era’s interference in the match.
Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder will definitely not take this inconclusive finish lightly and will most likely assure that they remain in the title picture on the road to TLC to culminate their feud with The New Day decisively. When not including six-man tag team matches, they have always made it clear that The New Day never defeated them by pinfall or submission until it occurred two weeks ago for the championships.
The feud between these two impeccable tag teams should be far from over and it should end on a PPV, especially when considering the thrilling matches they have performed for the WWE Universe. WWE TLC 2019 would be the time for The Revival and The New Day to fire all cylinders and perform in a tag team match that will be remembered for years to come and might even spark a tag team revolution.
It has been a long time coming for the tag teams to main event WrestleMania. WrestleMania 36 might not be the time for that. However, this idea should definitely be taken into consideration for years to come as the plenitude of tag teams become more and more impressive from generation to generation.
2.) Heavy Machinery
Heavy Machinery and The New Day are usually on the same page, but they failed to even be on the same chapter last week on SmackDown when they battled all four men from the Undisputed Era in eight-man tag team action. Before the commercial break, Roderick Strong jolted Kofi Kingston off the top rope and into Tucker outside the ring.
Evidently, Kingston did not intend to fall onto Tucker. Otis ran outside the ring to drag Kingston off of Tucker, an action that Big E took as unnecessary. Because of these chain of events, Big E and Otis got into a disagreement which Tucker had to peer mediate during their match.
The minor scuffle between these two tag teams led to their very first loss together and could be a sign of a rivalry between them in the future for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. Heavy Machinery have been in many tag team championship matches and have continually failed to capture a victory.
They lost to Daniel Bryan and Rowan for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships at WWE Stomping Grounds 2019 as well as to Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler for the Raw Tag Team Championship on Raw when the wild card rule was still in effect. Hopefully, that dry spell disappears sooner rather than later on the road to WWE TLC 2019.
1.) RooDolph
It is very easy to surmise that Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler were a randomly formed tag team that had no future plans for the tag team division. However, Christmas season is upon us and their pseudonym of ‘RooDolph’ could come in handy.
In fact, WWE TLC 2019 seems to have a Christmas theme so the idea of Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler wearing red noses for their potential match at this PPV would not be a bad idea. If they are involved in any match for this PPV, it should be for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships against The New Day.
Unlike The Revival and Heavy Machinery, RooDolph actually won the kickoff tag team battle royal at Survivor Series in order to contribute a victory for SmackDown in the brand war. This should give them the necessary momentum boost for a future tag team championship opportunity.
Many naysayers may despise this short-lived tag team since they may not consider them as legitimate, but their work as a tag team has been quite impressive. Maybe the twinkle in Roode’s eyes that Ziggler saw months ago was a foreshadowing of the north star that twinkles in the sky during Christmas season.
If this is the case, expect this bizarre yet fitting gimmick to bring RooDolph’s original formation into light. Besides, a match between them and The New Day would be a fantastic first time tag team match up for the WWE Universe and could very well set the scene for a very Christmas-like WWE TLC 2019.