{"id":332253,"date":"2026-05-10T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=332253"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:27:43","slug":"ex-aew-world-champion-has-spoken-to-the-latest-day-wants-them-in-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/10\/ex-aew-world-champion-has-spoken-to-the-latest-day-wants-them-in-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-AEW World Champion Has Spoken To The Latest Day, Wants Them In AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Latest Day isn&#8217;t any longer a component of WWE, and plenty of have been left to wonder if a move to AEW may very well be in store for the pair of wrestling veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a recent edition of the \u201cContained in the Ring\u201d podcast, Swerve Strickland shared that he has already spoken to Kofi Kingston because the Latest Day\u2019s exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strickland praised Kingston, calling him \u201cthe epitome of professionalism\u201d and the proper role model for wrestlers to base themselves on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he\u2019d wish to see Kingston and Xavier Woods in AEW, Strickland said he\u2019d love for it to occur, but hopes the pair do what\u2019s best for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That features potentially taking a five-year hiatus, in line with Strickland, who added that it can be crucial that the Latest Day know their value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woods and Kingston reportedly left WWE after being offered restructured contracts by TKO, and turning down what&#8217;s believed to be lower-paying deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kingston signed with WWE in 2006 and debuted on the important roster in 2008. Woods inked his contract in 2010 and debuted on WWE RAW in 2014 after a stint in NXT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swerve Strickland On Kofi Kingston, AEW Rise, &amp; Music Moves | Inside The Ring\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MF0DtH7-lvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Latest Day isn&#8217;t any longer a component of WWE, and plenty of have been left to wonder if a move to AEW may very well be in store for the pair of wrestling veterans.\u00a0 On a recent edition of the \u201cContained in the Ring\u201d podcast, Swerve Strickland shared that he has already spoken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[10436,1470,1999,23528,12243,813],"class_list":["post-332253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-aew","tag-champion","tag-day","tag-exaew","tag-spoken","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332256,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332253\/revisions\/332256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}