LA Knight On WrestleMania Match With IShowSpeed: You’re Being Trusted To Advertise The Rest Of The Show. You Don’t Advertise With A Bad Match. You Don’t Advertise With A Bad Showing.

LA Knight comments on facing IShowSpeed at WrestleMania 42.

Knight is currently set to team up with The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) against The Vision (Logan Paul and Austin Theory) and IShowSpeed for the opening match of WrestleMania Saturday.

Speaking with SHAK Wrestling recently, Knight was asked if he sees being Speed’s opponent at WrestleMania as an honor.

“I think it takes a minute for that to kind of metastasize, so to speak. When it’s first coming together, it’s kind of like we’re going to do what? Then as things kind of go on and happen, you start to see like even the social media viewer clip numbers and all that kind of stuff where it’s like these clips are getting how many views? Okay well, maybe we’re on to something here. Obviously kudos to Speed and whoever else might be driving some of those views but we’re getting a chunk of that, we’re getting a piece of that. Again you’re talking about that trust on so many levels because you’re looking at the trust of just going in and working this spot with these people who like oh wow, maybe this guy is just kind of figuring out how to do this. How to get his feet wet in this and all that. So, who can guide these people? But at the same time, who’s going to set the stage? Who’s going to set the tone for the very first match that we see for this year’s WrestleMania where we get a little bit of energy going? We get some eyes because I don’t know if everybody out there’s aware, but the first hour both nights of WrestleMania is going to be on regular ESPN TV. I think we’re on ESPN 2, if I’m not mistaken, on Night One and regular ESPN Uno, the original, on Sunday. So even to get that, it’s almost like, ‘Hey, here we’re going to showcase something really good on ESPN, regular free TV. Check that out. Oh, you like that? Okay, cool. Well, then why don’t you come on the app and you can catch the rest of the show?’ So, you’re being trusted then to essentially advertise the rest of the show. You don’t advertise with a bad match. You don’t advertise with a bad showing.”

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