LA Knight will challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship today at WWE Crown Jewel 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In a recent interview with The Ringer, Knight discussed his career influences, comparisons with John Cena, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his influences and how he’s not a tribute act: “I’m not trying to be a tribute act to anybody. Do I draw from some of that? Sure I do. Did Flair draw from Nature Boy Buddy Rogers? Sure he did. Did Hogan draw from Dusty Rhodes? Did he draw from Superstar Billy Graham? Of course he did.”
On some of the feedback he gets from veterans: “One of the greatest things that I kind of get from time to time is getting older guys, especially, who just go, ‘Man, I haven’t watched in years, but you’ve gotten me back into it. You give me that feeling that I used to get from it’, and I go, ‘OK, good. Then I’m doing my damn job.’”
On comparisons between himself and John Cena: “The only thing I could really obviously pinpoint that to is [that] his whole thing is, ‘never give up. Hustle, loyalty, respect’—all that stuff. Well, nobody’s hustled harder than I have and nobody’s lived and embodied ‘never give up’ more than I have. I mean, if you just look at the span of everything that I’ve done and the length of time, the things that I’ve gone through and things like that, I haven’t given up on this thing that I knew I had and this thing I had to offer.”
