During a recent appearance on the “SHAK Wrestling” podcast, LA Knight discussed how his feud with Roman Reigns springboarded his career in WWE.
Knight challenged Reigns for the WWE Championship in a losing effort at Crown Jewel 2023. He faced Reigns again for the title in a Fatal 4-Way match at the 2024 Royal Rumble, along with AJ Styles and Randy Orton, but The Tribal Chief emerged victorious yet again.
Knight said, “I think it did a little bit of all that. I think it took me in a few different directions. I think it optically in a way elevated me and I think also optically in a way it also kind of set me back a little bit to where I had to do a little bit of a rebuild back in the winter and spring time of last year. I think that’s just by virtue of the way it was all kind of set up and the way it was done. Ultimately, Crown Jewel was a nice payoff, so that was pretty good. Yeah, yeah.”
During a recent edition of his “Kliq This” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash weighed in on John Cena’s heel turn at WWE Elimination Chamber: Toronto.
Now that Cena only has nine months left in the ring, Nash believes The Champ should retire as a heel. He said,
“The thing about the Cena situation is, I read something today on a comment somewhere, was you know the Cena run has an expiration date. That changes everything. The one person said, ‘Wouldn’t it be Shakespearean if Cena rode off as a heel and basically the story was that he’s been that this whole time and you dumb f*cks bought it for 20 years, that he was a good guy?’ I said, there’s a hell of a way to go. You’re never gonna take away from his legacy. You’re never going to take away from the fact that he’s done more Make-a-Wishes than probably the entire rest of the athletes on the planet.”
When asked about a babyface turn, Nash added, “If he wants it. When John comes back, if I’m in charge and John comes to me and he says, ‘I want to do a retirement thing,’ I don’t know if it was pitched, if Paul said, ‘Hey, what do you think about a heel turn before you go out the back door,’ and John says, ‘Yeah, as long as we rectify it.’ When it comes down to it, it can always be a situation where it’s that last night, and something’s going down, and it’s the old Popeye. ‘It’s all I can stand because I stand no more,’ and he comes back to his senses. But people are a lot smarter than they used to be when it comes to wrestling. They’re gonna want this tied up in a bow. If you turn him and he’s been effective…”
