WWE star Big E was recently interviewed by App.com to talk about several professional wrestling topics. The New Day member discussed drawing inspiration from Kofi Kingston’s WWE Title win at WrestleMania over Daniel Bryan, and WWE pushing more inclusion and representation.
Here are the highlights:
Drawing inspiration from Kingston’s WWE Title win:
I want to feel like I continue to bring value to this team. So I guess seeing Kofi take charge — he’s our World Champion right now, he’s the guy on our brand, on SmackDown Live — so right now, I guess, for me, I feel that, you know what? I want to be able to keep up. (Kingston) is kind of like the pace car right now, and I want to be able to keep up as well. So I guess that’s kind of one thing and I’m always looking. I’ll use anything as motivation to continue to get better and display how good I am and what I want to bring to the trio.
WWE pushing more inclusion and representation:
And I think the problem is a lot of times people bristle at the mere mention of race or representation or feminism or whatever minority group there is that’s trying to have a voice in media, people don’t even want to have that discussion. But I think for Kofi to be the first African-born champion I think is such an incredible feat. And also Becky Lynch and Ronda and Charlotte being able to close WrestleMania, to have the women close the biggest show of the year, is also pretty incredible.
So I think it’s a discussion that we just need to be open to. And I guess I don’t really consider myself one for politics but I just think having this discourse and being able to talk about these things and being open to these things I think is big, so I’m glad we’re doing a better job with that in our industry and I hope we continue to grow.
