New Day leave WWE after almost 20 years amid more releases

It’s an end of an era in WWE as The New Day are done.

Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are calling time on two glittering careers with the wrestling giant after 20 and 16 years respectively.

This includes 12 years as a team, coming together as a featured act for WWE Raw in 2014.

According to Fightful Select and Bodyslam’s Cory Hays, the duo have parted ways with WWE by ‘mutual consent.’

Meanwhile, MFT members Tonga Loa and JC Matteo are also set to leave as main roster releases continue.

These departures come after a raft of post-WrestleMania cuts, including the likes of Kairi Sane, the entirety of the Wyatt Sicks group, and more.

As New Day, Kofi and Xavier (and Big E) have won more WWE tag titles than any duo in history, with 13.

The pair’s seven SmackDown reigns is also a WWE record – as is their 483-day stint as Raw champs.

Kofi is also a former WWE Champion after beating Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 35 in 2019.

Celebrating ten years of their partnership in 2024, Kofi reflected on the success of The New Dayin an exclusive chat with Metro.co.uk.

‘It’s wild to see how far we’ve come, even from the people rejecting us,’ he said.

‘When you think about it, we came out and just told everyone to be the best version of themselves, that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it,’ he recalled.

‘People booed us out of the building and told us that we suck! What is going on in this jaded world that we live in where you tell people to be the best that they can be, and they say, “Nah, we don’t want to hear that, man, you guys suck!”‘

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