Triple H’s Backstage Conflict With WWE Star Takes Major Turn, Says Veteran

Veteran believes Triple H might’ve set up LA Knight to fail on WWE Raw.

Knight was given a promo segment on the June 8 episode of Monday Night Raw, where he talked about his King of the Ring qualifier match.

Speaking on Vince Russo’s The Brand podcast, veteran Bin Hamin suggested that Triple H may have deliberately put LA Knight in a difficult position during his Raw promo to see if he could succeed without relying on his usual catchphrases and crowd reactions.

He argued that LA Knight was given extra promo time with little direction, and as a result, Knight appeared nervous, repeated himself, and struggled to fill time. WWE may have also intentionally delayed Jey Uso’s entrance music, forcing Knight to keep talking longer than expected.

Triple H Allegedly Set Up LA Knight To Expose His Weakness on WWE Raw

Hamin said that, from a producer’s perspective, this looked like WWE giving Knight enough freedom to expose any weaknesses in his promo ability. Hamin viewed this as a possible backstage power play rather than a simple production mistake.

This promo to me felt like somebody went, “Oh, he thinks he’s over. Give him five minutes of promo and watch him drown when he can’t just do LA Knight, dummy. Yeah. And they waited, and he had to vamp during this and came back around, and he was nervous. He was pacing side to side like through this whole promo.

Then he turned to the camera and grounded himself, and then he’d be in his head thinking of where he was going next. He looped back, said the same thing that he had said two minutes earlier. These are just the things I see as a producer where they’re giving you enough rope to hang yourself because you made a move that is a, you know, ‘hey, I’m here.’

They got nothing for ‘Okay, we got something for you. Go do what you want. Get this business over. No, you’re good at the promo. You go freestyle it.’ And then he’s waiting for the music to hit for Jey to come out, and it doesn’t hit. And he’s got a vamp for another 30. These are the little things that viewers at home don’t see, but I see as very Triple H versus Knight moves backstage. Either that or it’s production errors, which is also inexcusable, but I don’t think it’s that. (From 1:14)

If you use any quotes from this article, please credit the original source and h/t with a link back to TJR Wrestling for the transcription.

Make TJR Wrestling your choice for news by clicking here.