LA Knight Claims He Was “Fed” To Ex-WWE Champion
Despite his charismatic presence, mic work, and in-ring acumen, LA Knight never truly became the gold standard in WWE.
In 2025, he suffered losses in multiple high-profile matches, leading to his championship spot being taken over by other wrestlers. Fans often blamed the company’s creative team for booking him poorly.
Outside WWE, critics speculated about him not being in the good books of the company’s higher-ups.
In December 2025, he was written off TV following a vicious backstage assault by The Vision’s Logan Paul and Bronson Reed. It was later reported that the company was planning a top babyface run for him in 2026.
However, LA Knight’s appearances have been limited, often limited to backstage segments. He was featured at WrestleMania 42 in a six-man tag match that also involved Paul and YouTuber IShowSpeed.
LA Knight Recounts WWE Feud With Bray Wyatt
Following WrestleMania, WWE is building towards its next major premium live event, SummerSlam, which is scheduled on August 1 & 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Like other wrestlers, LA Knight, too, has been on media rounds to promote the event.
While speaking on Minnesota Sports with Mackey & Judd, LA Knight’s ascension in the company was compared to the likes of former wrestlers Bryan Danielson and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin.
However, Knight interjected and discussed about the specific moment that led to his rise, which he revealed as his feud with the late Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt in 2022.
After being released from his contract in 2021, Wyatt returned to the Stamford promotion during 2022 Extreme Rules, after which he began a feud with The Megastar.
Speaking about their rivalry, LA Knight claimed that he was fed to Wyatt, but he was able to find those moments that allowed him to be in the spotlight.
“He is but I’m gonna put a little asterisk there,” said LA Knight when he was compared to Danielson. “Because a lot of people make that comparison to me, and I’m gonna tell you how mine’s completely different. His was a groundswell in the same way where it was like the people kind of took over the show and said, ‘Hey, we want this guy.’
However, by that point, the guy had already been an Intercontinental Champion, I think a couple times a Tag Team Champion. He had been in major storylines and all that. I had done literally nothing. I had no machine behind me, nothing.
I was fed to Bray Wyatt — God bless him, and he was great to me and we had an awesome thing there — but I was literally fed to Bray Wyatt and in those times of being fed to him, I was able to shine in that process to where the people were like, ‘Oh wait, this guy, he’s pretty good,’ and from there they could watch me just have no plan.
There was nothing. Nothing for me, nothing for me, nothing for me but in those nothings that was happening, those little one-minute nothings where it was like, ‘Alright, well, yeah, he can talk for a minute,’ I made sure to make the damnedest of that.
So, when we talk about a Daniel Bryan or we talk about Steve Austin or any of these others who had these groundswell of support, they had already had runs as Intercontinental Champion, Tag Team Champion, pushes. I had nothing. I came in and was just floundering, doing jack nothing, and from there, somehow out of that, just with those little bits of one minute to be able to talk and get my personality out and have a little bit of wrestling, I was able to go ahead and get that groundswell.
If you ask me, not to toot my own horn but toot toot, nobody has ever done what I’ve done. I hate to say that and sound like I’m over here just blowing smoke up my own keister but it’s just when you really pull everything back, pull all the layers back, nobody’s ever done that.” [H/T: Fightful]