Kofi Kingston Is Excited For Shawn Michaels’ Return, Compares Big E. & Xavier Woods as Tag Partners

– Kofi Kingston spoke with Sportskeeda for a new interview discussing Shawn Michaels’ return to the ring and more. Highlights are below:

On how New Day decide who competes in tag team matches: “Well, most of the times its simple rotation and other times for bigger matches we just kinda sit down and present our cases. If there is a match one of us feels he really wants to be in, we talk about why and the other two will keep that in consideration or pitch our interests or why we should be there. It’s a democracy.”

On who he prefers teaming with: “Any time the New Day goes out, the team we pick is the best team; whether I’m out there with Big E or Xavier Woods, it’s going to be the best combination. We all have different moves we do together. If it’s me and Woods, we are the speed force and do a lot of hit and run type maneuvers. Big E and me, we are hard-hitting and high flying Woods is a hybrid between a high flyer and a power guy and Big E is complete power and also very athletic. Better or worse, it’s which team is more appropriate for the match.”

On Shawn Michaels coming out of retirement: “Oh I think it’s great, it’s cool. Shawn Michaels was always my guy growing up, one of the guys who influenced me. He was a high flyer and threw in a lot of kicks too. There are a lot of kids who don’t even know who Shawn Michaels is which is crazy. So now they are gonna know, see him in the ring and see what he does. I’m hard-pressed to say that he won’t be exactly like he was when he left, but Shawn always knows how to steal the show and I’m looking forward to seeing how he does it this time.