Kofi Kingston Discusses The New Day, Booty O’s, Scooby-Doo

WWE superstar Kofi Kingston recently sat down with CRAVE, to promote the new film new film “Scooby-Doo! And WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon.” He discussed a number of topics, including being in The New Day, the origin of “Booty-O’s” cereal, Scooby-Doo, and more.

Below are some highlights from the interview:

CraveOnline: You guys look like you’re always having fun. What has been your favorite thing you have got to do as The New Day?

Kofi Kingston: We go out there and try to entertain ourselves. A lot of the stuff you see us doing is stuff that we have already done or would do in a car ride or backstage or just hanging out with each other and that’s why it comes off so natural.

We were in the ring the other day after we had become the longest reigning WWE Tag Team champions and we did a montage of all of the stuff that we did and we didn’t see the montage until we actually went out to the ring so we got to see a compilation of all of the stuff that we did. Mixing it up with The Rock and going toe-to-toe with him was amazing! Winning at SummerSlam and coming out singing “New York, New York” but having our own lyrics to it was crazy. Our time machine skit was so much fun. There was a time I told the crowd country music sucked and it was actually me and not my character saying it so that was awesome. We’ve done so much fun stuff and we forget about it. I guess if I had to put a stamp or a pentacle on what we have done so far it has to be the “Booty-O’s” cereal.

CraveOnline: What was the origin of “Booty-O’s?”

Kofi Kingston: We were thinking about a new shirt because the first one we had was just The New Day logo, which you wouldn’t know if you didn’t know what The New Day was. It was black shirt with a phoenix, which actually symbolized us rising from the ashes because we were at lower points in our careers and this whole New Day thing was going to be our resurgence. That shirt was kind of just thrust upon us. We had no input on it and I’m not sure how the sells did but the second shirt, we started picking up some steam and they came to us to come up with an idea.

Big E and me were sitting at breakfast one day and we were thinking about the new shirt. Somebody had came out with a Wheaties poster with our faces on it and we were like ‘Oh, that would be kind of cool. Maybe we could have our own cereal or something like that’ and we wee bouncing names back and forth and E just out of nowhere comes up with “Booty-O’s” and instantly I was like ‘That’s it. We can have cartoon pictures of our faces on it.’ We get to the building and I’m trying to tell [Xavier] Woods about it and I was like ‘Woods, man, we were sitting at the table and E suggested “Booty-O’s” and before I could even get it out, Woods just said ‘Oh yeah. “Booty-O’s: You can make it booty.” It’s just a testament that all three of us are on the same page. A few weeks later the merchandise team came out with an awesome design.

We were the No. 1 selling merchandise item at WrestleMania with the “Booty-O’s” shirt and the boxes and we didn’t even have cereal yet. It was just a box with a t-shirt in it but everyone wanted cereal and now we have “Booty-O’s” cereal available at FYE. It’s been a wild ride because a year before at WrestleMania, we were getting booed out of the building. Kudos to ourselves and I’ll toot our own horn because we got the crowd turned around and now everyone wants to be a part of The New Day.

You can read the entire interview at this link.

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