 Former WWE Champion CM Punk praised The New Day for getting over on their own, and claimed that although he no longer watched WWE-based product, and had also lost his passion for wrestling overall, he would only watch The New Day's segments.At the end of 2015, the group won "Wrestling Observer"'s "Best Gimmick" award.However, some remained critical of the group, with both Jim Ross and Jason Powell from "ProWrestling.net" suggesting that The New Day should be trying to gain "heel heat" as opposed to being comedic, and in January 2016, following the Royal Rumble, James Caldwell of "PWtorch" noted that the group's babyface opponents came out "mainly to boos since New Day was too entertaining", adding that the group "don't act overly-heelish to get heat.