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The New Level is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Austin Creed and Kofi. They have been signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since August 2026, where they are two-thirds of the current AEW World Trios Champions alongside Swerve Strickland in their first reign. They are best known for their time in WWE as stable with Big E called The New Day. The New Day held several records, including the most reigns as SmackDown Tag Team Champions at seven, and the longest-reigning Raw Tag Team Champions at 483 days. As a team, they also hold the record for most WWE-branded tag team championship reigns at 13 (seven SmackDown, five Raw, and one NXT). While performing as a stable in WWE, The New Day defended their tag team titles under the Freebird rule, with all three members being recognized as champions. The stable was prominently formed on the July 21, 2014, episode of Raw, but made their debut as The New Day on the November 28, 2014 episode of SmackDown. In April 2015 at Extreme Rules, they won their first WWE Tag Team Championship. Their second reign, which began at that year's SummerSlam in August, became the longest male tag team championship reign in WWE history until it was surpassed by The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) in 2022. The team would go on to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship a record seven times and, after winning the NXT Tag Team Championship, they became the third WWE Tag Team Triple Crown Champions. As singles wrestlers, both Kingston and Big E won the WWE Championship, while Woods won the 2021 King of the Ring tournament. In March 2022, Big E suffered a cervical fracture which led to an indefinite in-ring hiatus, while Kingston and Woods would continue to compete as a tag team. Kingston and Woods removed Big E from the group in December 2024, and Big E announced his retirement in 2025. The early months of the stable as stereotypical black gospel babyface characters were marked by largely negative reactions from fans and critics alike, but after transitioning their characters into heels fanatically obsessed with the nostalgia-style "power of positivity" in April 2015, they began to receive acclaim for their entertainment value, as well as for their in-ring performances. In 2015, the trio were collectively named "WWE Wrestler of the Year" by Rolling Stone, while also being recognized as the "Best Gimmick" of the year by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Additionally, they became the first trio to win the Pro Wrestling Illustrated award for "Tag Team of the Year", doing so in 2015 and 2016. Their new-found popularity resulted in the trio reverting to babyfaces in early 2016, which they remained as until December 2024, when Kingston and Woods reverted back to being heels after Big E's removal from the group. Kingston and Woods then left WWE in May 2026 and signed with AEW as The New Level (Kofi and Austin Creed, respectively) that August. The three, who are close friends in real life, also appear or work together outside o