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#2 Big E to get a serious character during his singles push in WWE

The New Day officially disbanded on the season premiere of WWE SmackDown on FOX. Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods wrestled and won a six-man tag team match against Sheamus, Cesaro, and Shinsuke Nakamura.

The New Day shared an emotional moment after the match that signified the end of the trio's run together. Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods would continue to be a team on RAW as they are the tag team champions on the Red brand while Big E will resume his singles run on SmackDown.

WWE might also have a significant change in store for Big E's character.

Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the idea is for Big E to get away from the New Day and become more serious in the future. The New Day has been one of the most incredible comedic acts of the past decade and WWE felt the need to change up Big E's character and prepare him for a major singles push on the Blue brand.

Meltzer noted the following in the Newsletter:

The idea is to get Big E away from the act and make him more serious for a singles push. Historically, WWE has broken up tag team acts in the draft before and while there are exceptions, most of the time they find out the combination of parts was more effective than the parts individually. One would suspect E getting a major singles push, which was talked about weeks ago and somewhat started. The idea is to get him out of the comedic mode. There is a logic to it even though, because the New Day has been established together for so many years and have been popular, there was going to be a negative reaction breaking them up without a storyline leading to it.