Xavier Woods Describes What The New Day’s ‘Lisa Frank’ Cinematic Match Would Entail
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Xavier Woods isn’t looking to please the masses with his latest idea, but he might be on to something that a lot of ’90s kids will be clamoring for.
Woods was a recent guest on “The No-Sports Report” podcast with Jensen Karp, and he not only talked about how he enjoyed the Boneyard Match at WrestleMania 36 but pitched his own idea for The New Day’s cinematic-style match that would call back to the Lisa Frank brand and color palette. Woods says it would be a “weird, magical” world with crazy music and elements from The Wizard Of Oz and The Lion King, and New Day’s ideas might not appeal to the masses but that small fanbase is who they’re trying to pull in.
“When I got to see this [Undertaker and AJ Styles] Boneyard Match it really touched my soul. But The New Day match, essentially my way of explaining to people that don’t watch wrestling, I say, ‘Hey, remember Lisa Frank back in the day? All those folders with the bright colors and dolphins? Imagine if Lisa Frank just threw up on three black guys. That’s New Day.”
“So it’d be something where we’re in this weird, magical, like a rainbow world, but like there’s this weird shadow land area like in the Lion King where like we don’t go there, but when we do, it’s game time. So, uh, lots of sunshine, lots of rainbows, lots of inanimate objects talking to you… It’d be super weird. I like the dissonance between something horrible happening like us just being someone to a pulp with like a nice, children’s music like “Baby Shark” playing in the background.”
“I would lose my mind [if Lisa Frank actually collaborated], especially if she was like a Wizard of Oz. We just always reported to Lisa Frank and you finally get to see her. She turns around in this wheelchair and it’s like, ‘Oh my God. It’s really her!’”
“I feel like lots of people try to go out and try to kind of please the masses with like a promo or a thing in a match. And for New Day we try to get like the 0.01% each time we go out. So then, what we’ve been together five years, so that adds up because when you hit like a specific niche that hard, those three people that get that joke, they go “That’s my guy! That’s my group!” No matter what, we rock with them.”
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