Kevin Knight Speaks About AEW TNT Title Win, Would Like To Defend Against ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey

Kevin Knight speaks about his title win.

A new TNT Champion was crowned at AEW’s Dynasty pay-per-view. There was a Casino Gauntlet match, and Kevin Knight dove onto Daniel Garcia and pinned him to become the new champion.

Knight made his first comments about the title win during the AEW Dynasty post-show media scrum. Here’s what he had to say:

“Well, this being my first singles (title) ever, whether it’s on the indies, in New Japan and AEW, so for the fact that it happened on the anniversary of my pay-per-view debut here in AEW, a year later, with my tag team partner in the match, it certainly means a lot for me to be the new face of TNT. It’s a lot of pressure but I think The Jet is built for it. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. It’s so crazy because me and ‘Speedball’ are a tag team but we’ve won trios, we’ve won singles so, I think this is the next thing between us and being tag champs in the future so, I think it’s a great step in the right direction.”

When Knight dove onto Garcia, Garcia was mixed up with Knight’s tag team partner, ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey. Knight stated that he would like to defend the TNT Title against his partner in JetSpeed.

“This is a team win for me and ‘Speedball’ (Mike Bailey). I’ve known him before I got here, and we’ve had great chemistry. He only wants the best for me. I only want the best for him, and I would love to defend this against my tag team partner if you (Tony Khan) would allow it. If we can set something up because me and ‘Speedball,’ we bring the best out of each other. Any time we get together, it’s like brothers just going at it, cousins just going at it so, we love to go at it.”

Knight’s first title defense is taking place at AEW Dynamite: Spring BreakThru on 4/15 against Claudio Castagnoli.

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