Denise Salcedo

Hey guys, this is Denise Salcedo with Rick Uccino and welcome to the Busted Open Podcast.

To kick off the show, Rick and I react to the breaking news that the New Day, amongst others, have parted ways with the WWE.

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New Day's Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have mutually decided to part ways with WWE.

This was confirmed by both Fightful Select and Body Slam that have put this out there.

We also learned, I cannot believe it, JC Mateo, the former Jeff Cobb,

is among the new group of WWE Departures.

As well as Tonga Loa is also part of the new group of WWE Departures.

I do not know if there are any additional names as of right now.

This is what has been shared.

Rick, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, JC Mateo, Tonga Loa now added to this list.

What is your reaction as hearing this news right now?

So, of course, you know, with all of the releases, it's one of those things that you never want anybody to lose their jobs or anything like that.

You mentioned quite a bit about Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, and we all know that these guys like they're bound to be.

they're bound to be hall of famers someday there's no way there's not because of the longevity that they've had in their careers as well as everything that they've accomplished multi-time tag team champions you mentioned the merch selling you mentioned all of that like they are they are huge but you know what's crazy is i think to myself i remember when they did the biggie angle

And I remember thinking like, oh, I remember that day that that night I had my post raw show and I remember going on.

And to this day, it's one of my highest viewed raw post shows that I've ever done because people were so like crazy.

in awe of what they did with that biggie turned it was such an impactful moment that people loved it they ate it up because it it generated so much emotion from them and the unfortunate part though after that was that the follow-up to that

wasn't the greatest rick i think they kind of really had something special there with the story that they were telling but they didn't really take it as far as they could go in my opinion i thought they could have probably stretched that out a lot more and as of late they didn't really have like they were kind of just going out there and doing the same thing every week for how long weren't they mourning the the loss of their tag team titles how many times didn't we see them on those raw commercial breaks and

It's unfortunate because I think by the tail end of their run here, it was clear that there was really no direction or any real new ideas to keep them going.