New Day’s Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods Exit WWE
Two of the longest mainstays in the WWE have left the company! News broke earlier to that New Day’s Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have exited World Wrestling Entertainment! The story was first reported by Fightful Select and Bodyslam.net. This release, marks the beginning of what appears to be the second round of WWE Post WrestleMania releases.
The departure was a mutual departure by Kingston and Woods, according to Byran Alvarez of “The Wrestling Observer.”The duo was asked to renegotiate their contracts, which were just renewed last year. They did not accept the offers from the parent company, TKO, and were granted their release. It has been reported that JC Mateo and Tonga Lo were also released the same day.
The list of talent let go by the WWE and TKO continues to get bigger, with some fans shocked and some of the names released! Here is the current list according to USA Today:
The Wyatt Sicks complete faction of Bo Dallas (Uncle Howdy), Nikki Cross, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, and Dexter Lumis. Kairi Sane, Aleister Black, Zelina Vega, Santos Escobar, Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin), Zoey Stark, Apollo Crews, Alba Fyre. Andre Chase, Dante Chen, Tyra Mae Steele, Sirena Linton, Tyson Dupont, Tyriek Igwe, Chris Island, Malik Blade, Trill London, Luca Crusifino. Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods (The New Day), Tonga Loa and JC Mateo.
