In a championship rematch on Friday’s episode of SmackDown, LA Knight defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to reclaim the WWE United States Championship.
Nakamura’s previous reign ended Knight’s first, having won the title at WWE Survivor Series: WarGames. After the show, WWE released an interview with Knight, who discussed the title win and wanted to take it international by defending it at upcoming WWE events.
Knight called, “It’s been too long, man. Way too long. What I need to do is I need to get these [sideplates] off here. What I need to do is get that LA Knight back on there. What I need to do is get that strap on, and what I need to do is take this title back to places, maybe that it once was, but to places that it’s never been. What I need to do is take this title all over the damn world. I think we’re going to Europe not too long from now, and the US Champ, the US Title, coming on over there, and I’ll tell you what, just the same as here in the US, you can all pledge allegiance to the champ of the United States, with everybody saying, ‘LA Knight.’ Two times, we did it again.”
Knight reflected on his career and shared that he had thought it was ending. He then stated that he would bring the United States Championship into the light.
