Claim made that New Day was asked to take a “75% pay cut” by WWE
While speaking to Ariel Helwani, Kofi Kingston stated that WWE wanted New Day to take more than a 50% pay cut. During the Grilling JR podcast, Conrad Thompson commented on the situation…
“More than 90 days ago, when we found out that New Day was no more in WWE. And there was lots of rumor and innuendo at the time that they were taking a 50% pay cut.
The rumor and innuendo that I’ve heard is it was actually a 75% pay cut.
Some of that was confirmed on an interview with Ariel Helwani. Now, they didn’t say 75, but that’s the number I’ve heard bandied around. So, there’s your headline out of today’s episode.”
“So, 75% is the number, and I think we all hate to hear that. I don’t know that everybody has this on their radar, but as a reminder, Kofi Kingston is the most decorated tag team wrestler in WWE history, more tag team title reigns than anybody. And New Day have more title reigns than anybody. They’re second all-time on the longest reign, only behind the Usos, thanks to Roman Reigns and The Bloodline.
But still, they’ve done everything they could as a tag team in WWE. If this was a different generation, it was time to go to another territory, wasn’t it?”