Big E recently spoke with the State-Journal Register while promoting this weekend’s WWE live event in Springfield, Illinois:
Big E on how The New Day comes up with their material:
Sometimes people think that there’s a planning process where we sit down and decide, “Hey in April we’re going to do this, and January we’re going to do this.” But … we try to make sure things are pretty organic. Like the pancakes started when … we had a lumberjack match (which consists of several wrestlers standing outside of the ring with the task of tossing competitors back inside the ring if they fall out or try to escape). … Woods was on the floor and decided to be the chief lumberjack, and of course a lumberjack has pancakes. So we thought that was funny (and) decided to keep the pancakes.
… Sometimes it’s stuff we see on Twitter that we find amusing or that’s popular with young people, or whatever’s going on currently that’s funny that’s catching people’s interest. … We try to make sure things feel organic and they flow naturally.”
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Does Big E have any interest in breaking out as a singles star?
The thing is when we first decided to do this (New Day) thing, we honestly saw ourselves as a faction. We had ideas of adding people along of way. But honestly I’m very glad we ended up as a trio because I can’t imagine it as anything else. … But we want to be equipped to do anything, whether it’s tags or singles. We definitely think that is a possibility and something we’re very open to, and we do believe strongly the three of us have the ability to carry that out well.
A lot of people … are very quick to preach breaking up (the team). And there are times, even like a year and a half ago … where it seems like (people say), “Hey, these guys really haven’t done anything … let’s break them up.”
We feel like as a trio we have legs to continue for a very long time. And that could mean we move on from the happy, clappy, gospel-inspired music … but stay a trio. Or we move on to singles. There’s so many incarnations of this group that have yet to really be forged and fleshed out.
