WWE Hall of Famer Booker T says Big E should have been more selfish in WWE Title run

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T has shared his thoughts on what could have been done differently during Big E’s WWE title reign. 

Big E lost his WWE Championship to Brock Lesnar at WWE’s Day One event in January and has since been quietly moved back to SmackDown to reunite with Kofi Kingston. And according to Booker T, it’s the association to The New Day that may have harmed his run with the title. 

Speaking this week on his podcast, the former World Heavyweight champion believes E should have distanced himself from his New Day team-mates and eliminated some of the shared gimmicks from his act. 

“I said maybe Big E should have shed a couple things and make that time, that run, his own, and make that run about Big E. I don’t think Big E throughout his run really ever made the run about Big E. I think that might be part of the problem.”

“Social media and stuff like that, there’s a time to actually use it, and I think it was a perfect time for Big E to actually use social media and say, ‘ To hell with The New Day. To hell with Kofi and Xavier. I don’t have time to be messing around and playing games right now. Out with the old and in with the New Big E.’

“I want nothing but the best for Big E. I did say that I wished Big E would have shifted gears. My thing on this is he could have always gone back to The New Day. That’s like money in the bank. You can pick it up whenever you need it, but for him to have that moment to be able to separate from what he was doing, it was like me being in Harlem Heat but I still want to come out, play that role, dress the same, and look the same.

Big E used his Money in the Bank contract to cash-in on Bobby Lashley and win his first-ever WWE Title last October, but only managed two