Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods were a part of a WWE stable known as the New Day and for over a decade they were the team to beat in the tag team division despite different iterations.
The New Day had seven WWE Tag Team Championship reigns among them and held the World Tag Team Championship for 483 days at one point. Despite Big E suffering a career-threatening injury, Kingston and Woods forged a path as a dominant team. The two won their last tag team titles at WrestleMania 41 and turned heel in their final run when they kicked Big E out of their group.
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WWE parted ways with Kingston and Woods earlier this year, officially ending their chapter with the company. But their impact on the pro wrestling industry remained strong and it was underscored with their debut with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) over the weekend at All In.
Now known as Kofi and Austin Creed, the duo joined Swerve Strickland in a fight for the AEW World Trios Championship. They were re-introduced as The New Level and came out to a raucous crowd at Wembley Stadium in London. The three men outlasted six other teams to win the title.
Big E, who still works for WWE in a broadcaster capacity, reacted to his former stablemates’ major accomplishment. He posted a cartoon that featured a sign with the words, “Look how far you’ve come,” emblazoned on it.
“Take a second today to recognize your own progress. You’ve made it farther than you think,” he captioned the photo.
As others commented on the post, he called Kofi and Creed his “brothers.”
“If you’re two living legends that are undervalued, sometimes you have to go to London!” he wrote in a separate comment.
The sport of pro wrestling includes a wide range of promotions that features WWE and AEW at the top of the food chain. Wrestlers change promotions all the time as everyone in the industry deals with the ebbs and flows of the business. Kofi and Creed will likely have a successful run in AEW and it’s important for those on the outside to acknowledge that regardless of the company.
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The New Level aren’t resting on their laurels. The first AEW “Dynamite” after All In should be a doozy and Kofi and Woods are set to play a role in that.
They will join Strickland in an AEW Trios Championship defense against The Rascalz – the group that features Dezmond Xavier, Myron Reed and Zachary Wentz.
AEW has a robust tag team division that was put on full display after Adam Copeland and Christian Cage defended the AEW Tag Team Championship against the Young Bucks.
FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler), The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) and The New Level were all seen in the ring after the match. Every team is gunning for the tag titles but it was made pretty clear who the top contenders were on Sunday.