Add as a preferred source on Google LA Knight has again addressed one of the key reasons for his connection with WWE fans: the way he delivers his promos without sounding tied to a script.
During a recent appearance on Mackey & Judd, Knight explained that his process is much more about direction than memorization. He said all he needs to know is where he’s coming from, where he is, and where he needs to take the story in that segment.
The wrestler said he enters the ring with two fixed points: the opening, “Let me talk to you,” and the closing, “Whose game is it?”, when the crowd responds with his name.
“From memory. The process is really, I just need to know where I’m coming from, where I am, and where I’m going. And with that being the case, I know my start, ‘Let me talk to you.’ I know my finish, ‘Whose game is it?’ with everybody saying LA Knight.”
“And with that being the case, I’m going to fill in the middle with all those story points, what happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen. And that’s about it. From there, just let me go. I’ve got a blank canvas, but I’ve got an instruction as far as what I need to paint. I don’t have a direct ‘go this way, go that way.’ I might take the scenic route, I might go direct. It depends.”
Knight also made it clear that he doesn’t adapt well to lines fully written by someone else. For him, WWE can provide the main idea for a segment, but the delivery has to be in his own words.
“I’m not very good at remembering somebody else’s scripted lines. You can give me the general point, ‘talk about this, get this over,’ no problem. But I’m going to do it my way and say it my way.”
“And I think part of what makes it feel old school is that I watched wrestling almost religiously until I got into the business around 2003. Everything I learned came from that era. After that, I kind of stopped watching and started wrestling myself. So I don’t try to be anybody else, but there are little influences in there from those guys.” h/t Ringside News.
Currently, Knight remains one of the most popular names on WWE programming.