Big E, Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston have been part of a stable called The New Day for about 6 years now and they have really been successful as they have become a multi-time WWE World Tag Team Champion for both the Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown brands.
Despite The New Day now being on different shows due to the 2020 WWE Draft, the stable is technically still together, with Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston representing the New Day as a tag team on WWE RAW and Big E representing the Day as a singles star on SmackDown. In an interview with TalkSPORT, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E discussed WWE Chairman Vince McMahon wanting to split the New Day up in 2019 after Kofi Kingston lost his WWE Championship.
Big E also said that several other people wanted the New Day to split up even before that, but he and Kofi as well as Woods were very adamant of not wanting to be broken up, which is why the plan did not push through.
Big E said:
“I can’t really divulge the conversation, but even from the top of the business, the very head of what we do – you know exactly who I’m talking about – he directly told us, ‘Hey, this is the idea’, and we said, ‘We’re not feeling it’. This was post-KofiMania. There were people who wanted it earlier (than that) as well.”
“If we’d done it, we would have missed out on so many great moments. I still think that doing it now or soon, there are great moments to come and we have a lot more to offer. I think you’ve seen happy, clappy New Day for a very long time.”
