Since forming The New Day back in 2014, the trio of Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods have become one of the most successful and popular factions in WWE history. The current SmackDown Tag Team Champions have held tag gold five times and hold the record for the longest Tag Team Championship reign in the company’s history at 483 days.

However, there has been more talk among the WWE Universe the last couple of years about the group possibly splitting up, believing that it’s an inevitability that eventually they will need to go their separate ways. While Xavier has been in the United Kingdom this weekend at Insomnia Gaming Festival, he spoke with Give Me Sport and addressed the chances of a New Day split:

“Yeah, I feel like…I don’t remember a group in wrestling that hasn’t like, turned on itself or they’ll turn and they’ll come back and be a group again. New Day…I’m telling you this right now, New Day will never turn…ever and that’s because we have zero desire to do that. I have no desire to go to work and not work with my friends because…it’s like you said, people say on Twitter, ‘Oh, New Day’s doing this…Oh, Big E’s gonna turn and this is happening’ or ‘Oh, I know Woods is the snarky one, he’s gonna turn’. Like, ‘Oh no, Kofi’s been up at the top of the mountain before, he’s gonna turn’. It’s like, why? We’re having the most fun we’ve ever had in our careers, it’s not like someone’s like, ‘Oh, I need to sabotage my friends to be champ’.

What is it to be champ when you’re champ by yourself if you’re standing up there alone in this cold, mountainous castle? That’s not fun. I’d rather be up there with my friends and then especially if Kofi wins the heavyweight title, I’m also the heavyweight champion because we have ‘The New Day Rule’ and we share it. So just basic mathematics, we have a better chance at becoming heavyweight champion if we stay a group and we just share it. So there’s your answer internet. We will all retire before we turn. That’s legitimate answer, this is not some, ‘Ooh, he’s saying this because it’s happening’. No, that’s my real…my government name is Austin Watson. Austin Watson is telling you that is the truth. Thank you.”

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