5 Interesting ways to bring back Xavier Woods to WWE

Xavier Woods, the third member of The New Day has been out of action after tearing his achilles at a house show last year.

He tore it while the WWE was doing a tour in Australia back in October. Since then, he has had a successful surgery. The rest of The New Day have been doing just fine without him, as they won the SmackDown Tag Team Titles shortly after Woods went down with the injury.

Currently, The New Day — minus Woods, are in a feud with John Morrison, and The Miz.

However, Woods' presence is missed within The New Day, and within the WWE Universe.

Woods has been keeping busy during his absence, with his YouTube show — UpUpDownDown, among other things.

Let's take a look on how the WWE should write Woods back within The New Day.

#1 Saving The New Day from a 3-on-2 attack

With Kofi Kingston and Big E in a feud against John Morrison and The Miz, and seeing that the Shaman Of Sexy and The A-Lister are heels, it would make sense to prolong this storyline further.

Let's say during a pay per view, The New Day are defending their titles against The Miz, and The New Day retain their titles. The Miz and Morrison get so angry, they start attacking The New Day. The Miz and Morrison can recruit a third Superstar to help them.

This would present the perfect opportunity for Woods come in and rescue Kingston and Big E from the heels. Depending on when Woods is scheduled to return, as it has been only three months into his rehab so far, this storyline would make sense.

If they want to extend this current storyline with The New Day and Morrison and The Miz, and not create a new one for Woods as of now, this would also make sense.

#2 Woods undergoes an attitude change, turns heel on The New Day

Yes, it has been very well documented The New Day does not want to turn against each other, and all three have said they would quit if they had to do so.

However, this would add in as a shock factor and it would be a huge surprise for the WWE Universe. Everyone thought if there was one member within The New Day who would turn heel against everyone else, would be Big E.

This would be a very creative way to see how Woods can do on his own as a singles competitor, or join and create a new group. If he were to turn heel, I could see him joining forces with King Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler.

Woods is already good on the mic, and the other two he would be pairing with on the mic, it is a perfect match.

The three of them also have similar wrestling techniques and moves, which would make sense even more to pair Woods with them even more if he were to turn heel. This would be a very creative way to insert Woods back into the WWE, and have that ultimate shock factor that the WWE loves to create.

#3 Answering a champion's open challenge

This is usually one of the many ways to bring someone back is someone creating an open challenge, and someone else accepts it.

How perfect would it be for a return for Woods to come back in an open challenge match?

The challenge can be issued by anyone. This would be one of the perfect ways to bring Woods back into the fold. He doesn't have to win the match he returns too, but if he did, the rest of The New Day can come out and celebrate with him on his victory to close out SmackDown.

The perfect opponent, as he is one person who likes to talk a lot is Dolph Ziggler. The Showoff loves to run his mouth at anyone. Let's say he runs his mouth about everyone, but talks about The New Day specifically.

All in all, a surprise return by accepting an open challenge by someone else would be the perfect and easy way to slide Woods back into the fold.

It doesn't have to be a high profile match up either, just something for Woods to come back out too, and to remove the ring rust he may have after being out for so long.

#4 Return to replace a member of the New Day if they get "injured"

This could be another way to bring Woods back into the fold, especially with The New Day.

One of the heels could attack either Kofi Kingston, or Big E in the back, and one of them got "injured" during the attack and couldn't participate in the match they had scheduled for that night.

Depending on who gets injured backstage, either Kingston or Big E can come out by themselves.

With no partner with them for the moment, it looks like it would be a handicap match.

But, they get a surprise when they hear the trombone, and Woods comes out. This sets up now for a 2-on-2 match that was scheduled, but this time, it is Woods and not either Kingston or Big E.

There are many ways to bring back Woods into the fold, especially with The New Day, but this could be one of the best ways possible to bring him back in with The New Day.

This way, you can have The New Day win to create momentum heading forward with the band back together once again.

#5 Xavier Woods has a change in attitude. The New Day follows suit and they become heels

Before The New Day were one of the top babyfaces within the company, they were heels.

They shared in an interview with The Undefeated before WrestleMania 34 about what they miss being heels. Here is Woods on being a heel.

"It was a big part of everything, as Kof said," Wood said. "Yelling at children that they should be doing their homework and them getting irate. But then it’s cool because you see everyone behind them that sees this kid interacting with us and losing their mind and they start doing the same thing; now everyone’s involved. It was a cool way to not just involve that kid, who’s going to remember that for the rest of his life, but involve everyone else who’s also paying money to come to this show, this interactive experience. It’s something we’re not doing right now, but we might get back to it."

This would be a surprise change for the group, and something fresh they haven't done in a long time.

This would also be a surprise to the WWE Universe, just like how Bayley's heel turn was — especially with the kids.

Instead of being one of the top babyfaces in the company, they will be one of the top heels in the company.