As the group’s ten-year anniversary approaches, Kofi Kingston says WWE can’t have a New Day celebration without Big E there.
WWE plans to celebrate a decade of New Day on an upcoming episode of Raw. However, tension has been brewing between Kingston and Xavier Woods in recent months, leading to speculation the team may not last much longer.
In March 2022, Big E suffered a serious neck injury after taking an overhead suplex outside the ring during an episode of WWE SmackDown. It’s not clear if he’ll ever be able to return to the ring. Kingston recently told the New York Post that doesn’t believe WWE can celebrate New Day without Big E being present.
I don’t think that we can have a New Day celebration without Big E there. It wouldn’t feel right. It wouldn’t taste right, you know? So I’m hoping he’s available. But like I said, man, he’s busy doing a lot of things out there. I don’t know what his schedule is gonna look like, but hopefully he will be there. It would feel incomplete if he was not involved in The New Day 10-year anniversary in some way.
Big E continues to work as an ambassador with WWE. He’s often present at WWE tryouts and works with the company’s NIL program. Big E also works a commentary role on Kickoff panels.
Kingston continued:
He had so much to do with the foundations of The New Day and what people think of when they think of The New Day. There’s still people to this day that when they see us, you know, like, Hey, New Day. They put their hand on their head. They put their hand on their hip as they twirl their hips, just like he did, you know? So, yeah, yeah, I would be willing to bet he’s going to be a part of it in some way, shape or form.
Earlier this year, Woods and Kingston were working a storyline along with Odyssey Jones. The angle was scrapped following domestic violence allegations against Jones coming to light.
Kingston also commented on the abandoned angle, saying:
There have been times where we have known what’s going to happen at a “Monday Night Raw” for weeks and we work towards that, and then we get into the building, and then all of a sudden, we’re doing the exact opposite. And it’s your ability to adjust and roll with the punches that pulls you up. Nothing ever goes as planned.
So all that to say, you know, once Odyssey was out of the mix, we just had to figure out a way to pivot and keep the story going and keep on moving forward, because, as they say, the show must go on. And you figure out the best ways to adjust.
Kingston’s full interview with the NY Post is available here.