It doesn't take an intellect to figure out that Vince McMahon, not anybody else at WWE, made this disastrous decision about LA Knight
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You only need to pay attention to the spectators in person to realize how well-liked LA Knight is among WWE fans. Earlier this year, during a weird feud with Bray Wyatt, LA exploited his gift for gab for getting his mantras across. Knight is now a top candidate for capturing the Money in the Bank ladder match on July 1 in London, despite the fact that he was mysteriously not booked at WrestleMania 39. However, prior to all of this, Knight spent the previous year acting as Max Dupri, the face of Maximum Male Models, in a dead-end manager position. How could WWE creative be so illiterate as to fail to recognise Knight’s value as a professional wrestler?
The man alleges that WWE was pushed aback by his advanced age. LA described the incident as follows. “I’m killing it in NXT. It’s crazy, like, just the reactions, the way I had turned from big time heel in the summertime to big time babyface by the winter. It’s not piped in and it’s not prefabbed reactions. It was organic, real stuff happening. I come up for a dark match, I get the attention of the right people; ‘hey, who is this guy?’ but then the age thing comes up – [whispers] ‘oh no, he’s 40, danger’. But I’m not the average 40-year-old. I haven’t gone through the ringer. I haven’t had a bunch of surgeries or injuries, knock on that wood. I’ve lived a good, youthful life in a certain sense and I’ve taken care of myself in a way I would say most don’t.” Said Knight.
It doesn’t take an eminent intellect to figure out that Vince McMahon, not anybody else at WWE, made this disastrous decision about LA Knight. Knight continues by saying that he later contacted Triple H to return to his NXT persona.
“Yeah, I was kinda pushing for it but didn’t know if it was really a possibility at that point because we just established this thing to this larger audience. The NXT audience is what it is, just under a million or whatever, and now you’re looking at over two million for Smackdown. So there’s a bunch of people who had never even seen LA Knight before and they’d only seen this other thing. So now, can we just change gears? So now, I think it’s a testament to his trust and a testament to my abilities to be able to turn that corner in such short order and have people not even barely remember there was another.” Expressed Knight.
It is true that the WWE roster has to mature, but Vince McMahon’s decision to make this megastar a manager of male models still baffles the mind.
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