LA Knight Just Compared Himself to Steve Austin and the Internet Won’t Believe What He Said
You think you know the story of a wrestler climbing the ladder? LA Knight says you have no idea. In a candid new interview promoting SummerSlam 2026, the outspoken former United States Champion pulled back the curtain on his unconventional path to stardom. While most comparisons lump him in with legends like Bryan Danielson and Stone Cold Steve Austin, Knight was quick to shut that down—with a sharp asterisk.
According to Knight, his journey is completely different. And it started with being thrown to the wolves.
“I was fed to Bray Wyatt,” Knight admitted on the Mackey & Judd show. “God bless him, and he was great to me. We had an awesome thing there. But I was literally fed to him.”
Here is where the story takes a turn. While many wrestlers would have been buried in that role, Knight saw it as his unlikely launching pad.
“In those times of being fed to him, I was able to shine,” he explained. He pointed out that unlike Daniel Bryan or Austin—who already had Intercontinental Title runs and major storylines behind them when the crowd got behind them—Knight had nothing. Literally nothing.
“No machine behind me. I had done literally nothing. There was no plan. Nothing for me, nothing for me, nothing for me.”
So what did he do? He grabbed the smallest scraps of TV time.
“Those little one-minute nothings where it was like, ‘Alright, yeah, he can talk for a minute,’ I made sure to make the damnedest of that.”
Knight then went on to make a claim that is sure to spark debate among wrestling fans. He argued that not even Austin got the biggest reactions without a championship first, while he was getting major star pops at Money in the Bank after being on the roster for less than a year without winning a single title.
“Nobody has ever done what I’ve done,” Knight declared. “Not to toot my own horn, but toot toot.”
He emphasized that he isn’t trying to tear down the legends. He simply wants the record to reflect the depth he climbed from—starting as fodder for Bray Wyatt, and ending up as one of the hottest acts in WWE.
Knight recently proved his staying power by teaming with The Usos to win his match at WrestleMania 42 night one, proving that whatever came next, he always finds a way to shine.
