The New Day have been one of the most successful teams in the history of WWE, and even though Big E is currently on SmackDown while Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are on Raw, they’re still considered to be a group.
With The New Day’s long running history many fans expected a heel turn within the group by now, but WWE hasn’t teased a split for the former tag team champions.
Big E recently spoke to talkSPORT about the idea of splitting up the group, and he revealed that Vince McMahon wanted to split The New Day up, but they were adamantly against it, so the idea was dropped.
“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.”
