Injury Update On WWE's Kofi Kingston

The New Day man has been out of action since March.

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Having been out of action for nearly five months, it appears Kofi Kingston may soon be lacing up his boots once again.

Speaking during a Q&A session at Fightful Select (via WrestlingNews.co), Sean Ross Sapp noted how Kingston isn't too far off returning to the ring.

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When asked about the status of Kofi and his New Day cohort Big E, Sapp detailed:

“I was told that Kofi wasn't supposed to be that far off [from returning], but that was a week or two ago, I believe.”

As for Big E, Sapp was unsure whether the hugely charismatic powerhouse would ever be back in action.

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For Kofi, he's been on the sidelines since suffering an ankle injury on the 2 March episode of SmackDown. There, the one-time WWE Champion was injured after Drew McIntyre landed on him following the Scottish Warrior performing a dive to the outside of the ring.

Where Big E is concerned, he suffered a broken neck in a SmackDown tag match back in March of last year. While E stated earlier this month how he "feels great", there is also obviously a huge amount of uncertainty over his in-ring career after a situation that scarily could've resulted in paralysis or even death.

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In regards to the one healthy member of the New Day, Xavier Woods has been absent from WWE TV since a loss to Dominik Mysterio on the 15 May episode of Raw.

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