It was very cool of WWE to showcase its adaptability on-the-fly by having two triple threat singles matches for the SmackDown tag team championship for the first time ever in the last two weeks since WrestleMania. I reference the adaptability piece because WWE had to make last minute adjustments due to The Miz pulling out of Mania due to an illness.
The company has also adapted very well to the empty arena format under which they need to conduct shows for now. Vince McMahon along with the entire WWE production crew are observing week-by-week what works and what doesn’t. They are gradually implementing changes to make the shows as enticing as they possibly can be. Everyone is learning throughout the process with the current world situation, and WWE is doing an excellent job of becoming a more malleable company.
Personally, I don’t think the tag team titles needed to be taken off the team of MC M.I.Z. and Johnny Drip Drip. I thought they were settling into their new gimmick as rappers quite nicely. They were, and still are, very entertaining in that role. I will never complain however when The New Day become tag team champions; it simply feels right when they are champions. If someone had told me five years ago that they could be 8-time champs I would have called whoever that was crazy. The WWE universe was annoyed by them and didn’t like them much. Everyone wanted to see them lose. However, things change with time as people became familiar with their gimmick and the audience developed a love for it, and for them.
WWE’s ultimate goal is to make The New Day 10-time tag team champions, surpassing The Dudley Boyz’ all-time record of 9 reigns. This would logically make The New Day the greatest tag team in WWE history. They have earned it. WWE is on pace to make The New Day 10-time Champs by the time Big E and Xavier Woods are about 35 years old. This would give them both plenty of time to test the waters and find out if they gel with the WWE universe on their own. I imagine Kofi Kingston will retire pretty soon after The New Day mutually parts ways in a couple years. Kofi has openly expressed how he would like to wrestle for just a few more years. He is only 38 but has been on the road constantly for the last 12 years.
Braun Strowman is finally a major world champion after spending the last 4 ½ years on the main roster paying his dues, in the future, there may need for a better story with more layers
It’s great to see Braun Strowman finally getting an opportunity to showcase what he would be as a world champion in a prominent role. Smart fans are aware that this moment of being put over by a credible member of one, or maybe even two, generations in Goldberg was intended for Roman Reigns. This would have cemented a babyface that fans now actually like. Because he missed Mania (and understandably so) Strowman had to be inserted into the role of universal champion as basically a placeholder for Roman.
This is not to discredit Braun in any way because he is doing a great job as universal champion. His feud with “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt should be enthralling as it has been for the last two weeks. I imagine Strowman will lose the universal title to Reigns shortly after The Big Dog returns to the ring after the pandemic situation slows down.