During a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, Big E and Xavier Woods expressed that while being good guys is awesome to them, they would love to be heels again in the future.
When asked if he would have even more fun as a heel, Woods said “Yeah! One hundred percent – I’m a horrible person, it’s just super fun to scream at little kids, ’cause when we were heels before, our stuff would see kids getting legitimately mad and upset at us. It’s just so much fun to be snarky, to be rude and disliked. It’s great being cheered, and people pulling for us and being the good guys – both sides are really fun to play, but I wouldn’t be mad at it at all. We love that, we talk about it all the time!”
Big E, who is now a top face as a singles performer, agreed: “Honestly, we have [wanted that[ the entire time – we’ve always wanted to turn heel. It’s just so much fun. What I’m doing in the ring dovetails so well into all the things I wanna do outside of the ring, as far as just charitable work, just telling my story with my issues with depression and mental health. I just don’t think it makes a lot of sense right now.”
Big E also noted that their turns always were in tune with the crowd’s reactions, as they became heels after being rejected as babyfaces but went back to being good guys after the crowd began loving them: “The beautiful thing is our turns kind of happened organically, in the sense that we tried to be babyfaces right out of the gate, people were not having that so we became heels, and then we just got cheered for so long, so eventually we had to turn. My feeling is, if we do turn, it feels organic and it feels natural again. Unfortunately, we’re in a position right now where our reactions are pretty damn good. So, I don’t see that happening any time soon, but who knows?”
