LA Knight Addresses His Popularity Exploding On WWE TV

LA Knight has come from the doldrums of the Max Dupri days to become one of the most popular in-ring stars in all of WWE.

Knight is set to compete in the men’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match in London on July 1 - a match in which he is the outright favourite to win - and during a conversation with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, the former Million Dollar Champion reflected on his meteoric rise in WWE:

“I can tell you exactly,” said Knight when explaining when the crowd started getting behind him. “It was back in March, we were in DC, Sheamus and Drew [McIntyre] were in the ring. And then all of a sudden, that music hit, and I walked out and I remember it just kind of hit me. And I was like, that’s different. But I was just thinking to myself, I was like, ‘ah, they probably know I’m from up the road. Hagerstown is like, an hour away. Maybe enough of them know’. Then we went to Pittsburgh the next week, went to New York the week after that. And everywhere we went beyond there, it just continued to pick up more and more, and I’m just like, ‘Okay, well, I guess it’s not. I’m not from New York, not from Pittsburgh. So maybe it’s not that’. And since then, it’s just kind of picked up. LA got to a fever pitch, obviously.

“Hell, Triple H is out there doing a presser in Saudi Arabia and he’s getting interrupted. So something’s happening. I don’t know why, and maybe I don’t even want to know why. But for some reason or another, the people are demanding me.”

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