Big E Credits Overwhelming Response to His Player’s Tribune Piece as the Spark Behind Upcoming Autobiography

Big E’s decision to write a book wasn’t made in a vacuum — it grew directly out of the reaction he received to his 2024 Player’s Tribune article. The former WWE Champion, who announced earlier this month that an autobiography is on the way with a target release in early 2027, has described the reception to that piece as ‘beautiful,’ and pointed to that outpouring as the moment he knew a full memoir made sense.

The Player’s Tribune article was already an emotional touchstone for wrestling fans when it dropped last year. Big E has been open about the serious neck injury he suffered in March 2022 during a match on SmackDown, when he was suplexed and landed awkwardly, fracturing two vertebrae in his neck. The road back has been long and uncertain, and the Player’s Tribune piece gave him a platform to address all of it in his own words, on his own terms. Clearly, people were listening — and clearly, he had more to say.

An autobiography would give Big E the space to go even deeper: his rise through NXT, his years as part of The New Day, his run as WWE Champion, and the injury that threatened to end everything. There are few active-era performers with as compelling a story to tell, and the early enthusiasm around the announcement suggests fans are already invested.

With an early 2027 release window on the horizon, there’s time yet for the project to take shape — but the foundation, it seems, was laid the moment readers responded to that first article the way they did.