{"id":127166,"date":"2024-09-24T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=127166"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T19:32:57","slug":"jey-uso-intercontinental-title-win-is-death-knell-for-the-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/09\/24\/jey-uso-intercontinental-title-win-is-death-knell-for-the-new-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Jey Uso Intercontinental Title Win Is Death Knell For The New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jey Uso<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, winning his first singles championship in 14 years while seemingly disbanding his <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">biggest<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> tag team <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">rivals<\/span> <strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The New Day<\/span><\/strong>. <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Uso&#8217;s victory shocked everyone when he defroned <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bron Breakker <\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/09\/19\/preview-wwe-raw-9-23-24\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Raw<\/span><\/em><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fans expected Breakker to hold the championship for months <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">if<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> not years.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Uso had tried and failed to win the Undisputed WWE Championship, World Heavyweight Championship, WWE United States Championship, and WWE Intercontinental Championship over the past few years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Uso has been attempting to strike out on his own away from his<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/03\/21\/wwe-wrestlemania-40-the-usos-sibling-rivalry-will-be-a-show-stealer\/\" target=\"_self\"> twin brother, <\/a><\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jimmy Uso<\/span><\/strong>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/04\/15\/bloodline-storyline-after-wwe-wrestlemania-xl\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Bloodline<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL MATCH: Bron Breakker vs. Jey Uso \u2013 Intercontinental Title Match: Raw, Sept. 23, 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gH_nmewgRpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jey Uso Gets What Xavier Woods Wants &#8211; Again!\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On the November 11, 2023 episode of <\/span><strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE SmackDown<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jimmy<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and Jey Uso<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">beat The New Day&#8217;s <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kofi Kingston <\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Xavier Woods<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in an Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> meant <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Usos<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> surpassed The New Day&#8217;s record to become the longest-reigning WWE Tag Team Champions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It was the ultimate showdown between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/30\/the-usos-the-new-day-renew-rivalry\/\" target=\"_self\">greatest men&#8217;s tag teams<\/a> of the modern WWE era. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Over the past few months, Woods has been feeling insecure because he hasn&#8217;t held a singles championship. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Does Intercontinental Championship Win End &#8220;The New Day&#8221;?<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jey Uso&#8217;s WWE Intercontinental Championship victory makes him only the second person to follow in their father&#8217;s footsteps as WWE Intercontinental Champion. His father, <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rikishi<\/span><\/strong>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">held the title for 16 days in 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Curtis Axel <\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was the WWE Intercontinental Champion in 2013 for 155 days. His father, <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mr.<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Perfect<\/span><\/strong>, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was a two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion in the early &#8217;90s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The victory also means Uso has stepped away from simply being <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a tag team wrestler. Something that Woods cannot stake a claim to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is also something Woods has been struggling with recently. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Woods&#8217; partner, Kofi Kingston, is a four-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, three-time United States Champion, and one-time WWE Champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The latter title he had to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/12\/30\/lwopws-2019-wrestler-of-the-year-wwe\/\" target=\"_self\">wait 11 years for a shot at<\/a> &#8211; which he won. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Raw, <\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Woods and Kingston have been experiencing tension in recent weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Woods feels that Kingston has gone behind his back to seek help to win matches. First, Kingston enlisted <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Odyssey Jones <\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">as a backup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Then he secured the help of the <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">LWO. <\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But the big issue is Kingston never told Woods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Woods thinks Kingston doesn&#8217;t respect him enough to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">tell<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> him the strategy in matches. Woods also worries Kingston feels the two of them are not enough to get a win, so that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s had to seek outside help. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When the LWO&#8217;s assistance backfired and cost The New Day a World Tag Team Championship match against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/06\/27\/liv-morgan-is-taking-the-judgment-day-away-from-rhea-ripley\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Judgement Day<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Woods lost it big time. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Woods refused to accept an apology from Kingston and LWO&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/03\/11\/rey-mysterio-hall-of-fame\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Rey Mysterio<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, accusing them of not respecting him because of his lack of a singles title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If Woods was on the edge before Uso won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, he&#8217;s over it now.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who would DARE disrespect a WWE Hall of Famer like Rey Mysterio?!<a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWERaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWERaw<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GQuH1ICENi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GQuH1ICENi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1838405082993357212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Sealed With A Social Media Post<\/h3>\n<p>A simple congratulatory post on social media seems to have sealed the death knell for The New Day. Without the context of Woods feeling insecure, his post celebrating Uso&#8217;s win would just seem like one pro supporting another.<\/p>\n<p>But given everything that&#8217;s going on, it is practically a kiss of death to Kingston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats to Jey Uso<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Austin Creed (@AustinCreedWins) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustinCreedWins\/status\/1838441257724711174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Woods is angry, hurt, and ready to turn his back on Kingston to prove to himself and everyone that he can strike out on his own. Woods is the perfect first opponent for Uso.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that Woods would give everything up for a shot at a single title. His resentment at Uso for getting there before him makes sense as they were both once decorated tag wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>It also reignites one of the greatest feuds of all time. Get ready for a heartbreaking betrayal by Woods on Kingston, and him staking a claim at Jey Uso and the WWE Intercontinental Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of a Woods versus Uso feud for the WWE Intercontinental Championship is it pits together two people who cannot afford to lose. Uso needs to prove he can hold onto a solo title, whilst Woods needs to win one to show he is a solo wrestler.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Usos vs. The New Day - Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Match: SmackDown, Nov. 11, 2022\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdHwxFFSk5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013 Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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Fans expected Breakker to hold the championship for months if not years.\u00a0 Uso had tried and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":127175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,25,4,3],"tags":[329,1724,223,47,551],"class_list":["post-127166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-raw","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-intercontinental-championship","tag-jey-uso","tag-the-new-day","tag-wwe","tag-xavier-woods"],"modified_by":"Chinyere Okafor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}