Big E Recalls Big Show Pulling Kofi Kingston Aside To Tell Him He Was ‘Wasting His Time’ With Big E And Xavier Woods During The Start Of The New Day

Big E recalls an instance where The Big Show would pull Kofi Kingston aside in the early stages of The New Day’s run as a faction.

Over the past decade, The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods) have played both the heroes and villains in several stories, but will now go down in history as one of WWE’s most successful trios, something that Big E is very aware of.

While speaking to K&C Masterpiece in a new interview, Big E was asked about the rise of the New Day and if he expected to be involved in such big moments such as WrestleMania 32.

“It was such a roller coaster ride. You know, getting the idea off the ground took us so long, and it was so difficult, and there were so many no’s, so many people backstage who laughed at us, and we tell this story often, Big Show pulling Kofi aside in front of us, in front of me and Woods, and saying, ‘what are you doing with these guys? You’re wasting your time’. He wasn’t joking, and I mentioned Big Show. There are other people I won’t name. I mentioned Big Show because Big Show later came to us and apologized and said ‘I was completely wrong.’ But we had some real difficulties getting the thing off the ground. But it was so rewarding for us because we just came together through it all, and we said, ‘look, we’re going to do things our way, and if we fail doing things in our own way, I’m OK with that.’ But doing things someone else’s way and failing, we just weren’t OK with that. So we wanted to sink or swim. based on our own merits, and then when this thing finally took off, man, it’s so cool to be able to look back at KofiMania, to look back at the Hell in a Cell match. I took a Rock Bottom. We were the number one merch movers at the Dallas during that year in 2016. But man, we had such a blast. And looking back now, my time in the ring is over doing stuff on the commentary side. But I can look back now, and I have no regrets because there are so many times with Kofi and Woods, we spent crying, laughing. We really enjoyed it, and I think too often in our business, so many guys get jaded. They worry about their push. They don’t really enjoy the experience, and I can look back and think, man, I knew I was in the good old days when I was in the good old days. I don’t go back and regret it. But I knew then, hey, soak it all up. Be present because these are memories. Man, I have had such an incredible career. I talk about wrestling Randy Orton in South Africa. I’ve wrestled in Japan more times than I can count. I’ve been all over the world. I’ve had so many incredible experiences, and being able to entertain people truly across the globe has been one of life’s greatest joys.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Big E spoke about Royce Key’s WWE debut. You can read more about that here.

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