Legendary WWE tag team duo departs company in latest wave of cuts

Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, the WWE tag squad known arsenic the New Day, reportedly departed the institution connected Saturday arsenic portion of the latest drawstring of releases.

Kingston and Woods became instrumentality favorites arsenic they formed New Day with chap superstar Big E. But aft Big E was sidelined with a superior injury, the 2 continued their tag squad prowess successful the ring. Kingston and Woods were four-time tag squad champions arsenic a duo and held the belts 8 times erstwhile they were with Big E.

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Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston be Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event astatine The Kia Forum successful Inglewood, Calif., connected May 31, 2025. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Fightful Select and BodySlam some reported the departures of Kingston and Woods. The 2 were moved to the alumni conception of the WWE website.

Kingston had a ton of occurrence arsenic a singles competitor. He captured the WWE Championship astatine WrestleMania 35 implicit Daniel Bryan arsenic portion of the "Kofi-Mania" epoch wherever helium received a ton of instrumentality enactment connected his mode to his archetypal title. He was besides an intercontinental champion 4 times and a United States champion 3 times.

Woods joined WWE successful 2010 aft stints astatine Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Woods won the King of the Ring tourney successful 2021.

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Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston of the New Day observe their triumph during WrestleMania 41 astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas, Nev., connected April 19, 2025. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

As a tag team, the 2 were considered to beryllium 1 of the champion successful WWE’s history. They captured their past titles astatine WrestleMania 41 and turned bottommost soon aft that. The 2 mislaid their tag titles successful June and Woods was injured during the year. Kingston formed an confederation with Grayson Waller successful the interim earlier the departure.

Elsewhere, Tonga Loa and JC Mateo reportedly departed the institution arsenic well.

Loa archetypal appeared successful WWE successful 2009 earlier departed successful 2014. He re-appeared astir precocious successful 2024, joining forces with Solo Sikoa and the recently formed MFT faction.

MFT's JC Mateo, Talla Tonga, Solo Sikoa and Tonga Loa look disconnected with Jimmy Uso during Saturday Night's Main Event astatine State Farm Arena successful Atlanta, Ga., connected July 12, 2025. (Georgiana Dallas/WWE)

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Mateo joined WWE successful 2025, besides backing up Sikoa successful the faction. He was besides a tag squad champion with Tama Tonga earlier yet dropping the belts to Damian Priest and R-Truth successful March.