WWE Veteran Re-Signs, New Contract Agreed (WWE News)

Xavier Woods recently signed a new, multi-year WWE deal.

by Andrew Pollard
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While Jazmyn Nyz, Edris Enofe, and Santos Escobar have recently opted to walk away from WWE, one person who's committed their future to the company is Xavier Woods.

Per Fightful Select, Woods was recently in a negotiation period with WWE that ultimately resulted in him signing a new multi-year deal to remain with the market leader. The New Day man's previous WWE deal was due to expire this past September, and Fightful notes how negotiations for a new deal went "down to the wire" and were only finalised in September.

This report also adds how all three members of New Day signed matching deals in 2019, though there's no word on Kofi Kingston's contract status. All three of Woods, Kofi, and Big E have suffered injuries in the time since then, so there's always the possibility that time may have been tacked on to those deals in a way that means the expiration dates vary for each man. That isn't confirmed, though.

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A 20-year veteran of the ring by this point in his career, Xavier Woods has been with WWE since 2010, with Woods having been part of the New Day since 2014. During that time, the 39-year-old has become a 13-time Tag Team Champion and won the 2021 King of the Ring. Away from the squared circle, of course, Woods has had huge success with, amongst other things, his UpUpDownDown YouTube channel.

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