The current WWE World Champion Big E who is also a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion and a former eight WWE Tag Team Champion recently gave his opinion on a potential gimmick change. He said that he wanted to change his character presentation.
Big E is continuing his comedy gimmick since he has become a member of the New Day. Playing the character must have been quite challenging for him since he started his professional wrestling career as a serious angry young man who barely even smiled. At first he was introduced as the enforcer of Dolph Ziggler, but later he stated working solo.
Big E Thinks He Needs A Change To His Character Presentation
In 2014, he paired with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods and together the trio started to be known as The New Day. Slowly, the stable went on to become one of the most famous stables in the history of WWE. They have won record numbers of tag team championships together. Kofi Kingston first won the singles major championship that is the WWE title in 2019 when he defeated Daniel Bryan for the title at WrestleMania 35.
WWE was deciding to push E for quite a time but the time finally arrived after he won the Money in the Bank ladder match this year and cashed it in on Bobby Lashley to win his first WWE title. However, a lot of fans are not happy about his comedy gimmick that he is holding right now. A lot of fans believe that such a gimmick is not good enough for a world champion. So he should go through a change of character. And if he doesn’t, there would be no meaning of sending Kofi and Xavier to Smackdown.
Big E who is also a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently Oral Sessions spoke on where he gave his opinion on a potential gimmick change. He said that he wanted to change his character presentation. He said;
“I suppose it has sunk in. For me, I don’t want there to ever be a moment where I feel like I’ve had an ‘I made it’ moment. Where like ‘alright, you’ve done it and now you’re good.’ That’s when you stop growing, that’s when you stop getting better. Nothing good comes from that. So for me, I suppose in a sense of, I don’t necessarily feel a pressure but I know there’s an added responsibility.
“So for me it’s still ‘just go out there and perform to the best of your ability.’ And that’s always been my perception. But I do think there are ways that I want to just tweak my presentation. When you’re the guy, it’s a little bit different than when you’re in a three-man group working tag matches.
“So just the way I carry myself will be a little bit different. But that’s all a feel thing, and I always feel like every performer should have an internal barometer and you should have an understanding of when to change things. You should have an understanding of how the fans are reacting to you on a weekly basis. So for me, that’s just a matter of feeling things out, but it’s nice that there’s this new challenge. And that’s all I really wanted in my career was to not feel bored or stale. And I’m glad we have something new to attack.
“There’s a bunch of things that I never – like the Goldberg match. When I was making my stupid little comments, I never really thought I’d get the Goldberg match. But now I sit in a position where, you know, maybe if I make enough noise, we can get that done. And you know people will feel different ways about that.
“I understand that and I appreciate fans who have an affinity to the performers who are there, on the house shows working every single night because I feel like we are the heart of this company. We’re the ones that keep this thing going. But in the same vain, if someone were to throw a bundle of cash at me at age 50 to work two or three times a year, who am I to turn that down?
“So, we’ll see. But yeah, I suppose it has hit me in a sense. But I don’t think anything vastly changes from the way I approach my job. It’s just that ‘now you’re going to be in more segments and a little bit more spotlight on you.’ But it’s going to be fun.”
Credit: Oral Sessions. H/T 411Mania