Kevin Knight Says Working With AEW And NJPW Is A ‘Dope Experience’, Credits Rocky Romero For Coming Up With The Idea
Kevin Knight is keeping his head down and working hard.
Since debuting for the company earlier this year, Knight has established himself as a rising fan-favorite in AEW. While teaming with ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey, Knight has faced off with top names like Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley, RUSH, Kazuchika Okada, and the Young Bucks.
While chatting with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for a new interview, Knight talked about his work ethic and mindset as a young performer.
“Man, I like to keep the people guessing. I like to keep the people on their toes. So I stay a couple steps ahead and people just react however they want to react. But to me it’s just another day at the office. I’m just staying disciplined, staying consistent with my work and I feel like it just shows itself. So to me, I’m just doing what I regularly do and the people are getting a peek. It’s just the tip of the iceberg of everything that they see. So it’s it’s expected, I guess. That’s all I could say.”
Knight then talked about AEW coming into his life and how it was an eye-opening experience.
“It was a fun process. Just eye opening process to see where I stand, see where companies think of me and Rocky initially got me into New Japan anyway. So me and Rocky have a good, healthy relationship. So he’s known me since the very beginning. So it was just like having another talk and just bringing in another factor, which was AEW, in the meeting with Tony Khan and QT Marshall and the other people behind the scenes. So it was an eye-opening experience just to get those talks out the way and just see what we can do for my future.”
As many fans will know, Kevin Knight has two different contracts in wrestling — one with AEW and one with New Japan Pro Wrestling. ‘The Jet’ went on to say that Rocky Romero was the person that pitched this scenario.
