Kevin Knight looks back on his first couple of weeks in AEW.
Earlier this year, on the March 29th edition of AEW Collision, Kevin Knight would make his AEW debut facing off with Jay White in singles competition, with it being announced that he'd been signed by the promotion shortly afterwards. When White would suffer an injury and be ruled out of the Owen Hart tournament, Knight would take his place and face off with Will Ospreay at AEW Dynasty.
While speaking to Pep Talks in a new interview, Knight spoke about the initial period following his signing with AEW.
"Man everything happened so fast. Like a blink of an eye, I was wrestling AR Fox on Ring Of Honor, and then soon, I get brought up to wrestle Jay on a Collision. Then in the following week, we had announced that I'm wrestling on the pay-per-view. So it's like things happen like this. So I think it was just a tribute just to how hard I've worked and just the work that I put in because opportunity and preparation makes success. So I feel like I've always been preparing for this moment. I just had an opportunity to be successful. So it was just putting all my work out there, throwing it at the wall, giving Will everything I had, giving the city of Philadelphia everything I had. You bring good energy to Philadelphia, they're going to give it right back to you tenfold. So the environment was amazing. Will is obviously amazing in his own right. So it's just a matter of proving that I can keep up with the best in the world. So it was it was a validating experience for sure."
Knight would go on to lose his bout with Ospreay at AEW Dynasty.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Knight spoke about his tag team with Speedball Mike Bailey, you can read more about that here.
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