LA Knight Thinks WWE Feud With The Miz Was Some Of His Worst Promo Work

Although he feels the programme ultimately elevated them both, LA Knight believes his WWE programme with The Miz led to some of his worst promo work.

Knight told Insight with Chris Van Vliet: 

"Miz was really bringing it to the point where I remember a couple guys in the back just being like, 'Wow, I feel like this is like the best work Miz has done in a while' Coincidentally, I felt like it was some of the worst work I'd done in a while. So God, I hate pulling the curtain back a lot, but I'm not a good planner. I like to be off the cuff and I like to kind of just listen and react. But sometimes in these scenarios, when you're doing this, you have to plan a little bit more. Just because there's so many moving parts and things like that. And people want to know where you're going and whatever. But in the past, other places I've worked, it's just kind of, alright, well, we're gonna go out there, we're gonna generally talk about this. Okay, cool. I'll save some stuff, they'll listen to me, you are reacting, go back and forth.

"In this case, it was like, now I had kind of like planned canned stuff, but it's like, I don't know, whatever I'm thinking or saying at like three o'clock is not going to be the same stuff at eight o'clock. And so where I should have probably just dropped some of that stuff, and just listened and reacted and just shot back that way. It was like, I gotta keep the stock. So we got time, and I gotta hit the time, and they're expecting this. And so some of that I was just kind of like, ah, this just doesn't feel like my best. But that's also, I think, a bit of a process and still adapting, because I'm still that old school, let's go out and call it out there. Let's go out there and do it on the fly. And let's just kind of, you know, I'm gonna listen and react… I don't want to know, and I don't want you to know, because I want it to be fresh. I want it to be real. I don't want you to already know what I'm going to say. Because then it's like, okay, let me react. Let it be real. And then that way, I can really digest what you're saying to me, and then just bring it back.

"So yeah, but at the same time, I think that feud in general, rivalry, whatever you want to call it - some people hate the word 'feud' - so that in general I think helped elevate us both in certain ways, because I mean, I think it brought out a passion in him. Because I think there are similarities between us even though I think we're different, but we have some similarities to us. He was doing some great work. I feel like I was doing some great work. And at the same time, it was kind of like, showing a little bit of adversity because for so long, like I said, I was floundering and I wasn't doing much and now it's like, all of a sudden, now there's a little bit of elevation. So okay, let's show a little bit of adversity. Let's show, here's the guy who is established, he's been there for a while. At the same time, I'm gonna get under his skin. He's gonna get under my skin a little bit, but at the end of the day, I'm gonna kick his ass. And so that's really what it comes down to. So as long as that happens, we accomplish that, then we're good."

LA Knight and The Miz were locked in a programme during the Summer of 2023. Knight won their first match at Payback (with John Cena as special guest referee) before also winning the rematch on the September 15 episode of SmackDown.

Knight has since moved into the main event picture and he will have another chance to win the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in a four-way with champion Roman Reigns, Randy Orton, and AJ Styles at the Royal Rumble. The Miz, meanwhile, has turned babyface and he reformed Awesome Truth with R-Truth last week. 

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