Jonathan Hood

Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast.

Along with Justin LaBar, I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we talk about the end of an era in WWE.

Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are no longer in WWE.

We give our memories of the legacy of the New Day right here on the Busted Open Podcast.

So I'll tell you this, Justin.

When the New Day first came out,

And I saw these three brothers coming down and the backstory is hilarious when they tell it about how Vince McMahon is on a chair and then telling them how to clap and how to keep rhythm.

And just it's amazing.

Like Vince wants to be in everything.

And so even to the extent of teaching three black guys how to keep rhythm and timing, all right, by clapping like three preachers.

When it first came out, obviously it was a thumbs down.

Like, what is this?

I was familiar with two of the three of those guys and Kofi Kingston, obviously, and Xavier Woods and Big E's there like, OK, so I'm watching this.

And I said, well, this sucks and this is not going to get over because people were booing the new day.

It was bad because I was like, why can't this be themselves?

Why is this character?

But then Big E, I think, was the key to this whole thing, because, you know, he's on the microphone and he has that that preacher sound, that Baptist, you know, fire and brimstone kind of.

uh sound to him when he speaks on the mic like okay so i'm watching the ebb and flow of this thing and you know eventually they become baby faces and they they seem like they're geared toward kids and it's like and it was tolerable and i thought okay these guys how long will this last it just lasted it just kept going and going

So I wasn't necessarily the biggest fan of the new day.