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Busted Open

Instant Reaction to Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods Parting Ways with WWE

Busted Open

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Denise Salcedo and Rick Ucchino give their immediate reaction to the news of Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods parting ways with WWE. Plus, they react to last night's Smackdown covering the main roster debut of Ricky Saints, GUNTHER attacking Cody Rhodes and Sami Zayn beating up the Gingerbread Man.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Denise Sousata with Rick Euchino and welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

0:04.8

To kick off the show, Rick and I react to the breaking news that the New Day, amongst others, have parted ways with the WWE.

0:11.6

This is the busted open podcast. New days, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have a mutually decided to part ways with W.W.E. This was confirmed by both

0:24.9

Fightful Select and Body Slam that have put this out there. We also learned, I cannot believe it,

0:31.7

J.C. Mateo, the former Jeff Cobb, is among the new group WWE Departures, as well as Tongoloa is also part of the new

0:43.9

group of WWE departures.

0:46.7

I do not know if there are any additional names as of right now.

0:51.6

This is what has been shared.

0:57.2

Rick, Kofi Kingston, Xavier J C Mateo Tongoloa now added to this list uh what is your what is your reaction is

1:03.3

hearing this news right now man this is tough this is tough um just the it's the thing that stands out to me is cofi and woods obviously are

1:16.6

are the headliners no disrespect to to jc and and tanga but it's like they've been with a company

1:22.7

for so long they are without question first ballot wwe Hall of Famers. They are one of the greatest

1:28.6

tag teams, one of the greatest groups of all time. You know, Coffey Kingston by himself has one of the

1:34.7

greatest moments in the history of WrestleMania when he won the, the WWE championship from

1:39.2

Brian Danielson. Like, there's a lot of memories and wonderful moments that these two have been a part of.

1:45.7

It's very interesting to hear that they have mutually agreed two part ways.

1:52.4

Like I'm very curious to know what has happened to that relationship because it wasn't that long ago.

1:59.2

It was reported that these guys had resigned with the company for the long term.

2:02.9

And now all of a sudden, here we are post-Resslemania 42.

2:05.9

And they have decided to walk away from the company, at least in part, according to this report.

2:13.3

Man, it's so, it's hard to really kind of collect my thoughts and my feelings on

2:21.0

the matter you i never want to see anybody lose their job ever like ever ever um and i and i feel

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