During the latest “Grilling JR” podcast, Jim Ross and Conrad Thompson discussed WWE WrestleMania XL and his thoughts on some of the wrestlers involved in the event.
LA Knight is being promoted as one of the rising stars in the company and he started getting big babyface reactions last year but some feel that he has cooled off in recent months. Jim Ross said on his podcast that he’s not sold on Knight.
Ross said, “LA Knight is one of the favorites of the office. I haven’t totally bought into his persona. Not to say it in a bad way. I haven’t seen him do anything that I didn’t like. I just gotta feel it more. They gotta do a little bit more character development to get me to buy into who this dude is and why I should give a sh*t. He’s got a good future ahead, no doubt about that.”
Ross said that it is not “out of the realm of comprehension” that Cody’s next opponent could be a babyface.
Ross added, “My goal would be to get the best matches that you can in the ring. LA Knight can talk and he can take bumps, he can feed a comeback, the same as a lot of guys. That’s what you look for. Can you mechanically execute what is needed to be done? All the guys we talked about here today…they can all do that.”
Knight could be in line for a title shot at the next pay-per-view. He and AJ Styles both won Triple Threat matches last week on SmackDown. Styles and Knight will face each other this Friday for a chance to earn a title shot against Cody Rhodes at Backlash.
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