LA Knight: I Was Fed To Bray Wyatt… God Bless Him & He Was Great To Me… In Those Times Of Being Fed To Him, I Was Able To Shine

Knight dove into the topic of comparing his rise in WWE to the rise of other wrestlers in the company.

WWE talents are making the media rounds to promote the 2026 installment of SummerSlam. L.A. Knight is one of the talents on a media run, and he guest appeared on Mackey & Judd.

Knight interjected during the interviewer’s point about his rise in WWE being similar to Bryan Danielson’s rise in the company. Knight explained why it’s different from Danielson and Stone Cold Steve Austin’s respective acensions.

Knight went on to express his thought that he was fed to the late Windham Rotunda, a.k.a. Bray Wyatt, during their program. He said he and Wyatt had an awesome thing, and he was being fed to Wyatt, but he was able to find those small moments to shine.

The former WWE United States Champion commented on the moments when there was nothing for him directly on the creative end, but he was able to make something of it. Knight feels that out of all the groundswells in wrestling, nobody has done what he’s done.

“He is but I’m gonna put a little asterisk there,” Knight said when comparison was made between his rise in WWE and Bryan Danielson’s rise in WWE. “Because a lot of people make that comparison to me, and I’m gonna tell you how mine’s completely different. His was a groundswell in the same way where it was like the people kind of took over the show and said, ‘Hey, we want this guy.’ However, by that point, the guy had already been an Intercontinental Champion, I think a couple times a Tag Team Champion. He had been in major storylines and all that. I had done literally nothing. I had no machine behind me, nothing. I was fed to Bray Wyatt — God bless him, and he was great to me and we had an awesome thing there — but I was literally fed to Bray Wyatt and in those times of being fed to him, I was able to shine in that process to where the people were like, ‘Oh wait, this guy, he’s pretty good,’ and from there they could watch me just have no plan. There was nothing. Nothing for me, nothing for me, nothing for me but in those nothings that was happening, those little one-minute nothings where it was like, ‘Alright, well, yeah, he can talk for a minute,’ I made sure to make the damnedest of that. So, when we talk about a Daniel Bryan or we talk about Steve Austin or any of these others who had these groundswell of support, they had already had runs as Intercontinental Champion, Tag Team Champion, pushes. I had nothing. I came in and was just floundering, doing jack nothing, and from there, somehow out of that, just with those little bits of one minute to be able to talk and get my personality out and have a little bit of wrestling, I was able to go ahead and get that groundswell. If you ask me, not to toot my own horn but toot toot, nobody has ever done what I’ve done. I hate to say that and sound like I’m over here just blowing smoke up my own keister but it’s just when you really pull everything back, pull all the layers back, nobody’s ever done that.

Not to take anything away from Austin. You’re talking about one of the greatest of all time. But, if you wanna see when he really starts getting the major star pops, it doesn’t really happen until he wins the WWF Championship, the WWE Championship. Me, I was getting the major star pops at Money in the Bank when I hadn’t done a thing. I hadn’t won a championship, I hadn’t done anything. I had been on the roster for less than a year, doing next to nothing. Whereas, again, with Austin, he’d been around now for — what — when he started getting the monster pops, would have maybe been end of ‘97 but I’m really gonna say probably ‘98. He’d been on the roster for two years at that point in time. He’d already been, again, Intercontinental Champion. He’d been in major storylines with major talent. I was not… and it’s the same thing with Daniel Bryan, it’s the same thing with all of them. I’m not taking anything away from them. They all still did it. They proved themselves. Still a couple of the greatest of all time but I’m telling you just from that state, yeah, it’s a major sticking point for me. Nobody’s ever done that from that depth.”

Knight was in the opening match of WrestleMania 42 night one. He teamed with The Usos (Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso), and they scored a win over IShowSpeed and WWE World Tag Team Champions Logan Paul and Austin Theory.

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