I was fed to Bray Wyatt

A top superstar has expressed frustration with WWE over his early booking. The Stamford-based promotion’s booking at times does leave some room for complaints and creative differences.

One star who has continued to enjoy immense popularity among fans despite some topsy-turvy booking is LA Knight. Currently on RAW, the 43-year-old has been featured as a top name on Monday Nights. But this wasn’t always the case.

The Megastar recently appeared on Minnesota Sports’ Mackey & Judd podcast to promote SummerSlam 2026. During the discussion, the interviewer pointed out that his rise in WWE is similar to what we witnessed with Daniel Bryan. However, Knight interjected and explained how it is different for him.

He said by the time Bryan received his push, he had already won titles in the midcard and was well-established. Knight argued that compared to this, he had done nothing.

Because a lot of people make that comparison to me, and I’m gonna tell you how mine’s completely different. His (Daniel Bryan’s) 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,” he said.

LA Knight then mentioned that he was fed to Bray Wyatt, pointing to their feud in early 2023, which saw the late wrestler beat Knight in a Pitch Black match at the Royal Rumble. He said that even though he made most of it, WWE had nothing substantial for him afterward.

“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,” he added.

He also said that Bryan and Austin deserve credit for achieving what they did, but rising to the top in WWE from where he was hasn’t been done.

LA Knight addressed potential backstage heat with WWE

Last year in October during an episode of RAW, LA Knight held up a fan’s poster to the camera that read, “We Want LA Knight, Not Jey Uso.”

Many fans assumed that he may get backstage heat due to this, and when he missed an episode of WWE RAW, the apprehension grew. In April, during an interview on SHAK Wrestling, the former US champion addressed these rumors.

Knight said he got no heat for his actions, and even if there was, he wasn’t aware of it. He said he found it funny that people were speculating over it.

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