Big E returns to Raw to reunite New Day … just not the way you’d think

Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston thanked the fans in Everett, Washington for celebrating them on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw for their 10-year anniversary. That’s what the show was all about, after all, and it felt right.

And then they started talking like they were about to call it quits, especially in light of the argument they had live on television last week. They said it wasn’t the fault of the fans but they made a mutual decision.

That’s when the longtime third member of the group showed up.

Big E made a passionate plea to both of them, talking about the memories they’ve shared and the relationships they’ve built with each other throughout the years. They are a team, and that means something not just to him but to a lot of people. He said he’s still not medically cleared but until he is he is going to be here every single week to uplift them and serve as their manager.

Instead of joy, Woods and Kingston responded with anger. They were pissed he left them, that he’s been gone for all this time, that he didn’t comeback from his broken neck like so many others before him. They didn’t want to hear excuses, especially when he didn’t even need to have surgery.

“If you really truly cared about us, you would have been back here a long time ago.”

Damn.

Woods called him a burden, that all they hear is fans saying they miss him. But E doesn’t miss them. He chose his new girlfriend, his new desk job, his new life over them.

That’s what they said.

“Broken neck or not, you chose yourself over us.”

They outright sent him away, claiming the truth is he will never be cleared and he needs to just go back to his desk job. He refused to believe it would go down like this, and tried to hug them. They pushed him away.

“It’s like that? It’s over? That’s it? This is it? Is that what you’re telling me? This is over?”

A heartbroken Big E slowly backed away. In the ring, Woods and Kingston decided it was just the two of them now, and they are more powerful together. So the breakup they teased isn’t coming after all.

Big E united them, just not in the way he intended to.

And not in the way we expected.

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