WWE: Kofi Kingston on “Everything We Said On Monday Was Completely Factual”, The Rock’s WrestleMania 41 Uncertain Status Update, More News

Kofi Kingston Comments on “Everything We Said On Monday Was Completely Factual”

As noted before, this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Everett, Washington was notable for Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods turning heel on Big E and kicking him out of their New Day group during the New Day 10 Year Anniversary celebration segment.

A recent episode of 102.5 The Game’s Chase & Big Joe Show featured Kingston as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Kingston’s defending what he and Woods said to Big E during New Day’s 10 Year Anniversary celebration.

“I am surprised that most of these people out here don’t really understand why we did what we did. We came out there, and you can always tell when you’re right when you make an argument and you say nothing but facts. Everything we said on Monday night was completely factual. We told the truth. You might not like to hear what it was, but people online and social media are cussing and cursing us and there are all these insults that have nothing to do with what we’re talking about. I know that when you can’t bring a rational argument to the table, that means you know that you’re wrong. If you don’t have any facts for the argument. Just because you’re upset doesn’t mean you’re right.”

In a separate recent interview with the In The Kliq podcast, Kingston gave his thoughts about New Day’s legacy as a group in wrestling.

“So we are the greatest tag team to ever do this. Sometimes you’re supposed to be humble and dance around it, but if you look at our accolades, man — we just had this shirt come out for the 10-year anniversary, it had all, not even all of our accolades, but we filled the back of the shirt with the accolades that we have achieved. All the members of the group and all that we have done and titles that we’ve won and crowns that we’ve won. It’s unmatched. Being able to host WrestleMania, being able to go toe-to-toe with The Rock on the mic, and hold our own. Not many people in the world can do that. Not many people can say that they’ve done that. I could go on and on. 12,13-time Tag Team Champions, that in and of itself. The longest-reigning Tag Team Champions at one point.

If I’m being honest, I don’t really care about what the fans remember about it, because I already know. I already know what we are, you know what I’m saying? So, yeah, you can’t argue with the facts, and when it’s all said and done, New Day is going to go down as the greatest tag team of all time. So for us right now, we’re just trying to add on to that legacy. We’re never full. We always stay hungry, and we keep on piling these accolades on until we decide that we don’t want to do it anymore. Which won’t be anytime soon.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2

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The Rock’s WrestleMania 41 Status Update – The Rock’s Status Currently Uncertain

As noted before, WWE’s Bad Blood 2024 event earlier this month in Atlanta, Georgia featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson making his surprise return to WWE. The Rock recently denied reports and rumors of him not currently being scheduled to work at next year’s WrestleMania 41 event due to his acting career work schedule issues.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that several people within WWE had pushed back on the idea that The Rock had informed WWE he wouldn’t be available for WrestleMania 41 in response to the Dave Meltzer’s report at the time.

Sapp reported that numerous sources spoken to stated that WWE officials currently have creative plans being put in motion under the assumption that The Rock will not be working at WrestleMania 41. Sapp also reported that WWE’s current plans are under the notion that anything is possible and plans are subject to change.

Sapp also reported that those spoken to stated that The Rock’s surprise appearance to close out this past October’s Bad Blood 2024 event was soley just to get him on screen and WWE officials did not have any actual storyline purpose for it.

Sapp also reported that those spoken to also stated that Cody Rhodes and The Rock had “filmed something” at the Moana 2 premiere but no other details or context was given.

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WWE News & Notes

WWE recently announced that their Saturday Night’s Main Event revival show on December 14th will be airing live on their official YouTube channel for the United Kingdom and on their Spanish language YouTube channel for Spain.

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash recently suffered a herniated discs and torn biceps injuries. Fightful Select’s Corey Brennan reported that his sources stated that NXT officials had considered plans for Nash to make a potential appearance at this past Tuesday’s NXT show but these plans were dropped following Nash suffering an injury.

This past Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Katana Chance defeating Alba Fyre to advance to the next round of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship. Chance will be facing off against the winner of Michin/Ivy Nile in the next round of WWE’s current tournament.

Deadline reported that John Cena recently joined the cast for a new comedy film, titled Little Brother, for Netflix. It was reported that Cena and comedian Eric Andre will be staring in this upcoming new film and development is currently early in production.

WWE recently released seven new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Ladies and Gentleman, My Name is Paul Heyman” documentary. The second new video was a WWE Championship match of Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kane (c) from the June 29, 1998 episode of WWE RAW. The third new video was a “The story of Jeff Hardy’s first WWE Title win.” The fourth new video was a “Daniel Bryan leads Occupy Raw” from the March 10, 2014 episode of WWE RAW. The fifth new video was a “Finn Bálor’s first NXT victory, plus Zayn, Bliss & more” from the November 13, 2014 episode of WWE NXT. The sixth new video was a WWE Tag Team Championship Four-way match of Kane & Mankind vs. The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn & The Road Dogg) vs. Nation of Domination (The Rock & D-Lo Brown) vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Undertaker (c). The seventh new video was a dark match of CM Punk vs. The Amazing Red from May 10, 2003.

In a recent interview with Jazzy’s World TV, Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts about Bayley being one of the current locker room leaders in WWE. Rhodes stated “Here’s the thing I don’t think people know about Bayley – she’s probably the actual current locker room leader. Like, if you’ve got a captain, you know, the ‘C [for captain]’ on the jersey, it’s probably her and Randy Orton. In terms of, you need something done, ‘Hey, such and such doesn’t need to be late anymore. Hey, we need energy for this show.’ She’s the locker room leader – and she should be.” (Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com)

As noted before, Drew McIntyre made his surprise return to WWE at this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Everett, Washington. During a recent media event for Netflix in Los Angeles, California, WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque gave his thoughts about McIntyre’s recent return from injury and family-related reasons. Levesque stated “As we create more and more stars, it sort of creates this opportunity for stars to be able to come in and out, because you’re not reliant on the same people every week to get you to where you need to get to, right? [McIntyre] was dying to come back. He wasn’t hurt, he wasn’t injured. ‘Let’s just give you a little breather here for a second.’ And whether that’s spending some time at home enjoying your family, whatever that is, or whether that’s, ‘Hey, I have this other project I want to work on. I have this project that Netflix has come up with, I’m going to work on that.’ Whatever. Us having that ability to morph and shift things around and keep things fresh, I think is a tremendous opportunity for us. So, I’d look for more of that too.” (Transcript h/t: SI.com)

WWE recently announced three new matches for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on December 9th in

• WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament First Round Triple Threat match – Lyra Valkyria vs. Zelina Vega vs. Ivy Nile
• Eith-Man Tag Team match – Wyatt Sicks (Bo Dallas, Joe Gacy, Erick Rowan & Dexter Lumis) vs. Final Testament (Karrion Kross, Authors of Pain (Akam & Rezar), & The Miz)
• Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel Rodriguez