Former eleven times WWE Tag Team Champion Xavier Woods aka King Woods who is the winner of the King of the Ring tournament 2021 recently talked about facing Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship in a recent episode of Smackdown.
Woods started his professional wrestling career back in 2005 and he worked for different independent promotion before joining TNA Wrestling in 2007. in TNA he was seen as a lower mid card, but he gave some great matches. He wrestled mostly in the X Division of TNA and his ring name in the promotion was Austin Creed.
Xavier Woods Discusses His Recent Defeat To Gunther
After spending three years in TNA Wrestling he left the promotion in 2010. He worked in Japan for a while before joining WWE on the same year. After spending three years on the development territories of WWE he made his main roster debut in 2013. At first he was treated as a jobber and sometimes a mid card.
In 2014 he formed a stable with Kofi Kingston and Big E, together they were known as the New Day. Slowly they became one of the most famous stables in the history of WWE and also professional wrestling. He won the WWE Tag Team Championship for a record 11 Times along with his partners. But he is the only wrestler from the new day who failed to achieve any singles Championship.
Woods recently got a solo main event push for last one month. It started with winning the King of the Ring Tournament and went on to a feud with the WWE Universal Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns.
Xavier Woods aka King Woods who is the winner of the King of the Ring tournament 2021 recently spoke to WWE in a backstage interview where he talked about facing Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship in a recent episode of Smackdown. He said;
“This was my shot. I hadn’t had a shot at the Intercontinental Championship since I’d been here. I got here in 2010. It’s 2023. I had one shot at Gunther, I had one shot to become champion, and I failed, and I didn’t do it. I have no Kofi here, I have no [Big] E here. We’re all about the power of positivity, but it’s not always easy.
“I don’t know what to do next, besides move forward. What is moving forward? I have no idea. But shots like this for me, specifically guys like me, come once in a career apparently. So I don’t know if I’ll ever get a shot at that again. So yes, Gunther won. Yes, Gunther is the Intercontinental Champion. I am not. So we go to work.”
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