LA Knight has often been compared to The Rock and Steve Austin as it pertains to his work on the microphone.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani for BT Sport ahead of the Money in the Bank 2023 pay-per-view event, the WWE Superstar commented on the criticisms from some, including Kevin Nash, that he’s a “rip-off of The Rock.”
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On people comparing him to Steve Austin & The Rock: “People are always going to make comparisons. It’s the easiest thing for people to do. If you have something that’s familiar to you and here’s this new entity, ‘All right well what can I compare it to so that I can make it feel familiar to me?’ That’s fine. Whatever you need to do, go ahead and do it. I am me. I’m the one. I’m the only. I’m LA Knight.”
On wanting to emulate them as a teen: “Those were the guys that I wanted to be when I was like 16, 17 years old … My normal speech pattern, every day when I’m talking to you, is probably somehow derived from them. Whether that’s purposeful or not, and it’s definitely not, so it’s just the fact that I sat there and watched every single episode of Monday Night Raw’ I had all the little VHS cassette tapes.
“I watched all that stuff. You’re talking about formative years, very moldable years. So maybe in some way, I’ve just penetrated my brain in some way. Whether you want to make the comparisons, hey I’ll tell you what, let’s make this comparison, you want to say that I’m the Kobe to their Jordan? I’ll take it.”
