Scrapped WWE Plans To Split New Day Revealed

WWE SmackDown star Big E has revealed scrapped plans that Vince McMahon proposed to split up New Day years ago.

Without mentioning his name, Big E told talkSPORT that McMahon told the group about plans to split them up after KofiMania in 2019.

E explained:

“I know there were rumours for a while that certain things were pitched, but I think because we had been so adamant about not wanting to be broken up I think that’s where people were like, ‘Ehhh, I don’t know if we should because they really don’t want it.’

“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.

“I think there’s a lot of things we could do; we haven’t even really teased any tension. We haven’t done a friendly rivalry. There’s things we could do to toe that line.”

More recently, E was separated from the other New Day members Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods in last year’s draft, but they didn’t really split up and often appear as a trio at pay-per-views where both brands are featured.

There have been reports that WWE has been planning to draft Big E to Raw and restore the trio full-time, while maintaining his singles push.

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