Justin LaBar

The New Day was every week, every show, for six plus years.

Am I thinking of the right feud?

This was a feud that had the race car and Randy Orton had a race car and Kofi...

poured paint on it or took sledgehammer or something to it.

It was the first time we were kind of seeing an edge to the otherwise fun-loving Jamaican babyface.

It was like he kicked it into a new gear that we had not yet seen at that point.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

That definitely was, looking back, a...

A turning point for him.

And then probably about that same time, over the years, it became an annual attraction.

Oh, it's the Royal Rumble.

How is Kofi?

What amazing feat of athleticism and balance and acrobat is Kofi going to pull off to avoid elimination?

Oh, he's limited.

No, he's not.

He landed in a desk chair, and he's taking the desk chair to get back to the ring.

Or, oh, he got thrown out of the ring, but he landed on the top of the barricade, and he's going to jump from the barricade back to the ring.

I mean, it became a thing every year.

That became almost like...

I have no clue, but I almost wonder, during some of those years where Kofi was just, again, floating around in the midcard, having banger matches against Dolph Ziggler, but really having no other substance or no other real direction from the company, I often wonder when they did their two times a year, okay, we need to make cuts.