Big E’s Push Ignites WWE Twitter As Kofi Kingston Is Out For 6 Weeks

The Stage is set for a Big E push with. both Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods out with injury.

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Kofi Kingston announced he would be out for six weeks with an injury on SmackDown, and as Big E reassured his longtime tag team partner that they would regain the SmackDown Tag Team Championships against Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro, Kingston stopped his promising colleague and reminded Big E that he had bigger fish to fry.

“Don’t let them deny you for a decade before you get your due,” Kofi Kingston said during an impassioned speech to his already iconic mentee. It’s worth noting Big E signed with WWE in 2009—eleven years ago.

New Day member Xavier Woods is also currently on the mend due to an achilles injury, setting the stage for a long overdue Big E singles run.

Amid a historically and aggressively Caucasian administration, Kingston referenced the typical decade-long window in which a black talent has to wait to get to the front of the line on WWE’s roster. Kofi’s own eleven-year journey was realized in 2019 at WrestleMania 35 when the longtime midcarder broke out amid an organically viral movement. Kingston’s feel-good win made him the first African-born WWE champion in the company’s near-70-year history.

WWE’s record in race relations is sketchy at best, but in light of the racial tensions that permeated throughout the world through the killing of George Floyd, WWE has been surprisingly competent in how it is handling this sensitive and heavily nuanced issue. A recent broadcast of Friday Night SmackDown even featured both Big E and Kofi Kingston taking a knee in solidarity with slain victims of police brutality.

It’s unfortunate that WWE, and pro wrestling at large, still lives in an antiquated bubble where scores of talented black wrestlers have to take turns to receive elusive world championship opportunities—one at a time. But WWE, and its fanbase, seem to be fully behind Big E’s turn. A successful Big E world championship run will only facilitate a flawed process that should have normalized black excellence decades ago.

Big E recently commented on a potential singles run in an interview with Table Talk.

I’d love to do single stuff, that would be a lot of fun, but I think we don’t need to break up,” said Big E.

“We can do something similar with Kofi did, where we still stayed a faction, we were still together, he pursued single stuff, so yeah, I’m ready for it.”