page_title: The New Day (professional wrestling)
section_title: Original run and gospel era (2014–2015)
hierarchical_section_title: The New Day (professional wrestling) / History / Original run and gospel era (2014–2015)
caption_attribution_description: The New Day (from left to right: Kofi Kingston, Big E Langston, and Xavier Woods) at a WWE SmackDown/Main Event television taping in January 2015. Cropped from original.
context_page_description: The New Day is a professional wrestling stable in WWE, consisting of Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods, currently competing on the SmackDown brand. One of the most popular and decorated teams in WWE history, The New Day holds several records, including for longest tag team championship reign in WWE history at 483 days, and the most reigns as SmackDown Tag Team Champions at six; they are overall eight-time tag team champions in the company.
  The stable originally debuted on the July 21, 2014 episode of Raw, but made their official television debut as The New Day on the November 28, 2014 episode of SmackDown. In April 2015 at Extreme Rules, they won their first WWE Tag Team Championship. They lost the championship to The Prime Time Players the following month at Money in the Bank, but won it back in August at SummerSlam; their second reign became the longest in the title's history, the first to last more than a year, and the last with the title being the sole tag team championship in WWE, as it was renamed Raw Tag Team Championship in September 2016 following the creation of the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
context_section_description: On the July 21, 2014 episode of Raw, after Big E and Kingston, who had started pairing up in tag team matches earlier the same month, suffered another loss in what had been ongoing losing streaks for both, Woods came down to address the two and he declared that they could not "get ahead by kissing babies and shaking hands", and that it would be "their time to shine". The duo then joined Woods and on the following day on Main Event, Woods managed Big E and Kingston to a decisive victory over Slater-Gator (Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil). However, the group disappeared from television soon after due to WWE creative being unconvinced by their gimmic; they continued to make appearances together at house shows in two-on-two tag team matches, regularly switching the two competing members while the third one acted as manager.
  From the November 3 episode of Raw, WWE began airing vignettes for Big E, Kingston and Woods, with the stable now being billed as The New Day, displaying a heroic black gospel gimmick. The New Day made their in-ring debut on the November 28 episode of SmackDown in a winning effort against Curtis Axel, Heath Slater and Titus O'Neil. On the December 1 episode of Raw, Kingston and Woods competed in a tag team turmoil match to determine the number one contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship, eliminating Gold and Stardust, before being eliminated by Tyson Kidd and Cesaro.  At the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pre-show on December 14, Big E and Kingston defeated Goldust and Stardust.
  On the January 5, 2015 episode of Raw, while Big E was on his way to a victory against Adam Rose, the team of Kidd and Cesaro, masquerading as Rosebuds, interfered by laying out Woods on the outside and performing their finisher on Big E in the ring. At the Royal Rumble, The New Day's winning streak came to an end when Tyson Kidd and Cesaro defeated Big E and Kingston. A fatal four-way match for the WWE Tag Team Championship took place on the WrestleMania 31 pre-show on March 29, including The New Day, but they failed to win the championship.
caption: The New Day appearing in their gospel era blue outfits on Main Event in January 2015
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