WWE’s LA Knight Reveals He Deleted An Angry Video Response To Mark Henry
WWE’s LA Knight Reveals He Deleted An Angry Video Response To Mark Henry
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LA Knight has revealed that he almost decided to release an angry video response to WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry after hearing some tough criticism during his first run in NXT. However, he deleted the video and decided to let his work do the talking.
The two looked back on that moment during the July 27 taping of Off The Ropes, where Henry admitted he had once been one of Knight’s biggest critics before watching him become one of WWE’s top stars.
LA Knight reveals why he deleted his angry video response to Mark Henry
“It’s no secret that I was very critical of this man,” Henry said (via Fightful Select).
Henry explained that he challenged Knight because he wanted wrestlers to prove themselves without depending on comparisons or outside praise. He also respected the way Knight handled the criticism.
“I wanted to see people thrive on their own. All wrestlers, not just ones in particular but the one thing that I got out of L.A. Knight was a man. When I think of wrestlers that don’t communicate, this new modern era, you don’t find a lot of the younger wrestlers communicating but you did. You said, ‘Listen, I don’t agree with what you said’ and I went, ‘Well, great. Now we got something to talk about,’ and I always respected that,” Henry said.
Looking back now, Henry admitted that Knight proved him wrong.
“I told you that you were one of the few guys that I was hypercritical about early, that flipped the script and became a main event guy, and what was the thing, the trigger for you that when you were going through wrestling, learning how to do everything but trying everything that made you go, bam, nah, nah, this is who I am?” Henry added.
Knight then explained how he felt that criticism from someone like Mark Henry could hurt his chances in WWE. He admitted he even recorded an angry video in response.
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“I remember I was in NXT the first time when I heard your criticisms. Boy oh boy was I pissed off, because I was like, ‘This man is trying to take food off my plate,’ and I was hot about it, and I had recorded an entire video just basically telling you everything about how big of a piece of sh*t I thought you were,” Knight said.
But before posting it, he mulled it over in the end. He realized putting the video online would only bring more attention to the criticism instead of helping his career. So Knight deleted it.
“But at the same time, I decided, you know what? I’m just gonna delete that video. Why do I need to give that attention? Let me just go and do my thing, and so that’s what I did is I continue to do that. Now whether that changed your opinion or helped that or whatever, didn’t make a difference to me,” Knight said.
LA Knight added that he wasn’t trying to change Henry’s opinion. He respected Henry’s experience but believed the most important thing was believing in himself.
“I respect everybody’s opinion. Obviously, you’ve done it before I did. You’ve gone and done all of this on such a high level at one of the greatest times in the history of the business. So I have to respect that. At the same time, I gotta know and trust in myself and what I’m doing,” Knight said.
The Megastar also talked about one of Henry’s biggest criticisms back then, that his promos sounded too much like The Rock.
“Your criticism originally was The Rock or whatever, and I get that plenty, and I understand why I get that because when I came up, my whole thing was, ‘I wanna be a great talker. The wrestling I wanna be good at as well. But the guys who were successful in this business, great talkers,'” Knight added.
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
