Big E wonders if New Day are too far gone to be a diabolical heel faction.
The New Day have been babyfaces and heels throughout their run as a faction on WWE TV. Whether they were heels or faces however, they remained wacky in terms of gimmick with lots of innuendos, pancakes and dancing.
Speaking on the Cheap Heat podcast, Big E was asked about lessons he may have learned from his first WWE Title reign and what he can do when he returns.
“I’m so far out from that. When the doctor says, ‘we’ll re-scan you in a year.’ That’s March (2023). We’re not close to March,” he said. “What we did with New Day, for us, it’s maximizing, ‘what do I do well and what are other people not doing?’ I kind of want to see what the landscape looks like as far as, if things are looking good in March and I’m cleared, what do things look like then? The cool thing is, it was my first run and now I have the opportunity to learn from the missteps or make different choices. You just never want to come back just to do the same thing. (Xavier) Woods always says this, and I’m a big believer, that after a long time, three months or more of being out, you want to come back with something different. With a different look, a different feel. There are so many different things I’ve wanted to do as well in the ring, so many things we’ve talked about. I’m so glad we got to do funny, goofy New Day, but besides the one week, one TV, the very first time, that’s the only time we were militant New Day. Man, we had a ton of ideas. That would be dope as well. I don’t know if we’re too far gone, if you’ve seen too many hip thrusts and gyrations to now take us seriously as diabolical murderous heels, but I’d love to try my hand at different things to see if it works. We might be too far gone, I don’t know.”
Big E to Cheap Heat
Big E is currently still out with a broken neck and as he mentioned in the quote above, he is not expected to have any more major updates on his rehab until March.
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