Post by ben:friendship frog on Aug 16, 2015 0:02:48 GMT -5
I love Vince but this is kind of hilarious. It also squashes and clarifies that the New Day were meant to be heels all along. In the sense of Vince thought they'd be the "greatest babyface thing ever" but the trio played it over the top annoying to get the current reaction.
I guess it shows that even if Vince doesn't have the greatest ideas you can still make it work in your own way.
It's also good that's it's clarified that the gimmick (either heel or face) wasn't a race thing and was just 3 mates, which I optimistically defended from the beginning.
I guess it shows that even if Vince doesn't have the greatest ideas you can still make it work in your own way.
It's also good that's it's clarified that the gimmick (either heel or face) wasn't a race thing and was just 3 mates, which I optimistically defended from the beginning.
The following are some highlights and notes from The New Day's recent appearance on Chris Jericho's "Talk Is Jericho" podcast.
On how the idea for The New Day began: "So I'm working on that character, trying to get something going and then I'm kind of realizing that, 'oh, E's not doing anything, he's kind of coming off his I.C. title run and starting to float, so, you know what? I like E, he's one of my good friends, lets see if we can merge him into this,' said Xavier Woods. "So we kind of start working on something, literally weeks at a time, and we're going into pre-tapes, filming things, pitching ideas and then we're thinking, 'something is missing from this, like, we need one more thing.'
"That's when we kind of thought, 'maybe Kofi', but it was kind of a heel thing. We're thinking, 'Kofi has never been a heel - I don't know if [WWE] would let him turn heel'. After talking about it for a while, we kind of approached them with what we wanted to do and rather than being this group that everyone thought it was going to be, like three angry black guys, it's like, 'no, it's three guys who come up from kind of the same background, that just want more from life, more from their jobs, more from their friends, more from everything around them'. So we tried to take that mentality and get it across TV as best we could and we did."
On WWE taking The New Day off of TV immediately after forming the group: "We got taken off [TV] and then we basically had to reevaluate and come up with something different," Kofi Kingston said. "We were told we needed to go in a kind of positive, uplifting type of direction and we would be going into Vince [McMahon's] office, pretty much every week for probably months."
On Vince McMahon changing the idea to a preacher gimmick, and their reaction: "We kind of got frustrated too and then we didn't go back to his office for a little while and then he called us back in, like, a few weeks later, and he's like, 'you know, guys, it [has] taken me a long time to come up with this, but I think I got it: I want you guys to be preachers' and all three of us are like, 'oh my god,'" said Kingston.
From there, Kingston explained that the preacher gimmick was the exact opposite of what they wanted to do, however Big E. saw it as an opportunity. The trio then decided collectively that if they were super over-the-top with the gimmick, it would become a heel stable.
After that, Kofi claimed Vince told him he felt The New Day preacher characters would be "the greatest babyface thing ever." Woods noted that McMahon looked visibly emotional when speaking about the group not getting over as babyfaces.
On how the idea for The New Day began: "So I'm working on that character, trying to get something going and then I'm kind of realizing that, 'oh, E's not doing anything, he's kind of coming off his I.C. title run and starting to float, so, you know what? I like E, he's one of my good friends, lets see if we can merge him into this,' said Xavier Woods. "So we kind of start working on something, literally weeks at a time, and we're going into pre-tapes, filming things, pitching ideas and then we're thinking, 'something is missing from this, like, we need one more thing.'
"That's when we kind of thought, 'maybe Kofi', but it was kind of a heel thing. We're thinking, 'Kofi has never been a heel - I don't know if [WWE] would let him turn heel'. After talking about it for a while, we kind of approached them with what we wanted to do and rather than being this group that everyone thought it was going to be, like three angry black guys, it's like, 'no, it's three guys who come up from kind of the same background, that just want more from life, more from their jobs, more from their friends, more from everything around them'. So we tried to take that mentality and get it across TV as best we could and we did."
On WWE taking The New Day off of TV immediately after forming the group: "We got taken off [TV] and then we basically had to reevaluate and come up with something different," Kofi Kingston said. "We were told we needed to go in a kind of positive, uplifting type of direction and we would be going into Vince [McMahon's] office, pretty much every week for probably months."
On Vince McMahon changing the idea to a preacher gimmick, and their reaction: "We kind of got frustrated too and then we didn't go back to his office for a little while and then he called us back in, like, a few weeks later, and he's like, 'you know, guys, it [has] taken me a long time to come up with this, but I think I got it: I want you guys to be preachers' and all three of us are like, 'oh my god,'" said Kingston.
From there, Kingston explained that the preacher gimmick was the exact opposite of what they wanted to do, however Big E. saw it as an opportunity. The trio then decided collectively that if they were super over-the-top with the gimmick, it would become a heel stable.
After that, Kofi claimed Vince told him he felt The New Day preacher characters would be "the greatest babyface thing ever." Woods noted that McMahon looked visibly emotional when speaking about the group not getting over as babyfaces.