LA Knight wants to start building his legacy after his remarkable 2023.
LA Knight rose to the main-event scene in 2023, and he unsuccessfully challenged for the world title twice. But with WrestleMania 40 a few weeks away, he is in a non-title feud with AJ Styles.
Speaking with Gorilla Position, LA Knight was asked whether he was frustrated about not being in the title picture heading into WrestleMania 40.
“Yes, yeah. In a certain way, LA Knight said. “So I look at my career in a sense of, 2023, in all reality, should never have happened the way it happened. That was insanity, that was crazy how I mean literally, legitimately, there were no plans for me until the Royal Rumble. There was nothing. I was there because I was trusted to be good enough to hang with Bray and make him look good. I think I did that. But in the process, my god, did a light shine. But for whatever reason, there were plans for me after that. For things to go the way that they did in the last year is amazing. But I get all these congratulations and everybody’s like, ‘You’ve done so much.’
“I’m like, I have, but everything that I’ve done, from a career standpoint, pretty good. But from a merit standpoint, from a standpoint of adding to the resume, saying, ‘Hey, this guy’s been an Intercontinental Champion, this guy’s been a United States Champion, this guy’s been a United States Champion, this guy’s been a WWE Champion, World Heavyweight Champion, Money in the Bank, Royal Rumble winner”, any of that stuff, I really don’t have anything to hang my hat on in that regard.”
LA Knight Wants To Build His Resume And His Legacy
LA Knight continued by stating that he built a foundation in 2023, and now he wants to create his legacy by adding to his resume.
“So for that, yeah, I’m kind of like, okay, there’s gotta be a time now where I start…I created one hell of a foundation in 2023,” LA Knight said. “Now it’s time to go and start creating a legacy and making those things to hang my hat on, start building the resume to where people can say, alright, this guy legitimately can make a claim to being one of the best of this era, if not one of the best in the whole thing.”
LA Knight Still Plans To Make WrestleMania A Big One
LA Knight reiterated that it was time to stat building the empire. He stated that he “supposed” that there was some frustration, but he still intended to make WrestleMania 40 a big one.
“For me, you look at what happened over the last year, and honestly I can say, agree with it or disagree with it, that has never happened ever in the history of the business,” he said. “There have been guys who have gotten crazy, crazy over in a short amount of time. It’s because they had rocket pushes. I had none until finally their hand was forced.
“So in that regard, this has never, ever happened to where there were no expectations put on someone, and all of a sudden, they lit the damn world on fire. That’s cool, but to me, it’s like, alright, cool. I’ve proven the worth. Now, let’s build the empire. So yeah, is there a little frustration in regard? I suppose. But at the same time, you don’t think I’m gonna walk into WrestleMania and make this a big one, boy oh boy. We’re gonna have a good time.
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