The New Day Is The Anti-Shield Of The WWE

The New Day is a professional wrestling stable performing in the WWE

composed of Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods. The trio are the current WWE 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 WWE 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 "WWE 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.

Initially characterized as stereotypical black gospel characters, the group quickly transitioned away from that and developed their own unique identity.

The members of The New Day are often excited and positive, and usually encourage live audiences to 'clap' along with them. In 2015, Woods began bringing a trombone to the ring and playing it during the group's entrance and matches, later naming the trombone 'Francesca'. Also in late 2015, a unicorn pony was incorporated into The New Day's newest shirt, and the trio began making unicorn gestures, using their fingers as horns and even having interviewers claiming to perceive them having "unicorn magic". The group later began wearing plastic 'unicorn horns' during their ring entrance. One of their assault tactics was also named after this theme.

Xavier Woods

Austin Watson is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under the ring name Xavier Woods. He is part of The New Day, along with Big E and Kofi Kingston, the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second reign. He previously worked for TNA as Consequences Creed, and was a one time World Tag Team Champion with Jay Lethal as Lethal Consequences. He has also worked for NWA Anarchy and other independent promotions under the ring name Austin Creed.

Big E Langston

Ettore Ewen is an American professional wrestler who is currently performing under the ring name Big E. He is signed to WWE where he is one third of The New Day along with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods. Big E is a one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time WWE Tag Team Champion, and a one-time NXT Champion while in WWE's developmental system, NXT. Before signing with WWE, Ewen was a national powerlifting champion who set multiple national and state records in the raw division.

Kofi Kingston

Kofi Nahaje Sarkodie-Mensah is a Ghanaian-American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE under the ring name Kofi Kingston, where he is 1/3 of The New Day stable along with teammates Big E and Xavier Woods. New Day are the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second reign as a team.

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