Big E Talks About The New Day Getting Over as Heels Organically

In a recent interview with SLAM! Sports: Wrestling, one of the three (Freebird rule) WWE Tag Team Champions Big E talks about The New Day getting over as heels organically when many thought they would fail. As seen during the May 4 edition of “Monday Night Raw,” the current WWE Tag Team Championship stable has been all over WWE programming lately, entertaining the fans, and getting them to “love to hate” them.

Big E, who was speaking to SLAM! about the May 4 edition of “RAW” prior to the event taking place, discussed the progress that The New Day has made over the last three months. He says,

“It’s cool because it feels very organic. I think a lot of times when you say, ‘This is what a talent is and this is how we’re going to push him in this direction and it doesn’t matter what the crowd says or what they do,’ sometimes you can make that work if you shove things down peoples’ throats, but a lot of times there’s resistance toward that.”

He also talks about what kind of struggle it has been for himself, Xavier Woods, and Kofi Kingston to get over with the WWE Universe since Woods gave the initial promo bringing the three men together. He says,

“If you remember the original promo with Woods in the red and white suit, that happens and then we disappear for a couple of months. I think there was some buzz with that, which we were all excited for, and then that kind of just disappears.

And then when you see us again, we’re in a different incarnation of what people thought we would be. For us, it was kind of an uphill battle to get things off the ground for the first several months, but I think more than anything, we believe in our talent.

It’s really cool to get to this point of things feeling organic, where we’re not in a box that people are force fed, and that’s something we’re excited about. I think it’s a cool thing to not necessarily have a strong label. But I do think we’re going to start moving in a certain direction that’ll make it pretty easy for people to figure where we’re going.”

You can read the entire interview here.

Editor’s Note:

The New Day entertained me to no end on “RAW.” They are excellent workers in the ring, all three of them, and NOW, they have the gimmick to win over fans around the globe…in the heel way…which is always awesome.