After a forgettable stint as the manager of a stable of models that almost ended his second stint with WWE, LA Knight caught fire on the main roster in 2023. But with arenas full of fans shouting “YEAH” along with Knight, wrestling legend Kevin Nash was saying “NAH” to LA.
Big Sexy called Knight “an absolute ripoff” of stars like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, and joked that his good buddy Paul “Triple H” Levesque had offered LA a Legends deal as a result.
The two men got a chance to talk face-to-face at SummerSlam last year though, and according to Nash there was “no heat” between them over his remarks — or Knight’s comebacks.
Relations between them may have improved even more since then. On the latest edition of Nash’s Kliq This podcast, he’s now advocating for an LA Knight World championship reign:
“I’ll tell you what. We gave him a lot of shit early in this show, that he was a copycat and everything else — and I really appreciate him. He’s a fucking solid hand. The people like him. He would definitely be on my list of guys to give a run to, to give a World run to. The only problem is, he’s a babyface… his work’s always been solid… I was just gonna say also, that fucker stays in fucking really good shape.”
Given his popularity, there may not be much that can be done about Nash’s one remaining problem with LA. But maybe in another year Big Kev won’t think that’s an issue either.
YEAH!