The New Day Discuss the Origins of Their Group With Chris Jericho

The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) recently stopped by “Talk Is Jericho” to discuss their origins with podcast host, Chris Jericho.

The New Day are arguably the breakout stars of 2015, but the road to their success did not come easy, with poor creative decisions and bad booking halting their progress.

 The idea came from Woods after Big E, Kingston, and himself were constantly on WWE television losing to Rusev. So the three men started going to Vince McMahon on a weekly basis for three months with different iterations for what we now know of as New Day.

The trio even went as far as to record their own vignettes as The Problem Solvers, which was a more comical version of The APA (JBL and Ron Simmons). They showed the vignettes to McMahon, who chuckled, but didn’t commit to anything.

A few weeks later, McMahon approached the trio and told them he has an idea for them, which involved turning them into wrestling preachers.

The New Day discussed their original entrance music and compared it to 1940’s gospel music. They also mentioned the names pitched to them by McMahon and the creative team that included Fresh Coat of Pain, KBX (Kofi, Big, Xavier), House of Light, and House of Positive Energy (H.O.P.E.).

After hearing names pitched and the original music, they gave creative some updated Gospel music that included Kirk Franklin. This is where the inspiration for their current music titled “New Day” originated (which is where the name of the group came from as well).

Also discussed were various topics such as Big E thanking CM Punk for keeping him on the main roster, Kingston’s feud with Randy Orton and their table spot at Madison Square Garden, and Woods coming up with the now famous New Day clap.

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