WWE’s Kofi Kingston: The New Day Is The Greatest Pro Wrestling Faction Of All Time
"We've been able to do a lot of things that are groundbreaking."
WWE recently announced that The New Day are the greatest tag team in WWE history, and not only does founding member Kofi Kingston agree, but he thinks the trio are the greatest faction ever.
Kingston said as much to Chris Denker on Into The Danger Zone, with the former WWE Champion not shying away from the group’s success:
"I feel like you're supposed to be humble, but for me, I'm old and don't really care what anybody thinks," started Kofi "When I think about the things we have done, just off the top of my head, being able to go toe-to-toe with The Rock, the greatest speaker in the history of our industry, the greatest trash talker, the most popular man in the world. We were able to go toe-to-toe. Granted, it was three-on-one, but it was a real test like, 'Okay, we're pretty good at this.' To be able to host WrestleMania, there are only a handful of active talent on the roster that have been able to do that. There are so many things we have done. To be able to have a food product sold with WWE after a 20 something year drought, and for it to be called Booty-Os. You're selling this, people are eating it and buying it? We've been able to do a lot of things that are groundbreaking. Then our accolades. The longest reigning tag team champions, 11 times.
"I look at all that stuff and, not that you compare yourself to anybody else, but being the group that has never had the desire to turn on each other. A lot of teams get thrown together like myself and Punk, myself and R-Truth, myself and Evan. We just got thrown together. It wasn't our plan to to come together and be a tag. New Day chose to be together. They chose me to be in the group and we formed this bond. We wanted to be together. A lot of people are not put in a situation where they are given the option of being together. That allowed us to start with a different foundation than everybody else. We wanted to be together so why would I turn on my brother? His success is my success. Woods is the King, I'm the King. Big E is WWE Champion, I'm WWE Champion. We have that actual mentality of all-for-one and one-for-all. From all of those perspectives, I can't think of another group that embodies most of those things, let alone all of those things like we do. On top of that, WWE.com voted us the greatest tag team/faction of all time. I'll double down on that."
H/T: Fightful
