{"id":649195,"date":"2026-05-05T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:20:11","slug":"update-on-the-wwe-talent-pay-cut-story-following-the-news-of-new-days-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649195\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the WWE talent pay cut story following the news of New Day&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 2nd 2026, it was reported that The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/90455\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mutually agreed to part ways with WWE<\/a>. It was noted by Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline that the two men \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/backstage-news-regarding-the-new-day-kofi-kingston-and-xavier-woods-leaving-wwe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were asked to restructure<\/a>\u201d their contracts, but they didn\u2019t like the deals, so they were then granted their release.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com noted that a \u201cpretty majorly pushed talent\u201d in WWE <a href=\"https:\/\/nodq.com\/news\/a-pretty-majorly-pushed-talent-in-wwe-allegedly-agreed-to-take-a-50-pay-cut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly agreed to take a 50% pay cut<\/a>. Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com provided the following update on Johnson\u2019s story\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say more than that is believed to be the case and the person is not a tippy top person. There have been recent raises and there have been people asked to take cuts. I think it\u2019s very clear who they see as the top people and none of them have been asked to take a cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com also stated that \u201ca number of people were asked to take pay cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A number of people were asked to take pay cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SGeTmIrpGP\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/SGeTmIrpGP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanRossSapp\/status\/2051388156893630604?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 2nd 2026, it was reported that The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) mutually agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-649195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}