LA Knight feels his US title win was long overdue.
On Saturday night, LA Knight would challenge Logan Paul for the United States Championship at SummerSlam. The match was a back and forth affair, but in the closing stretch, Logan would hit Knight with brass knuckles before attempting to put the challenger away. However, Knight would reverse and hit the BFT, covering Paul for the three count to become the brand new United States Champion.
While speaking at the post SummerSlam press conference, Knight was asked how it felt to be champion, noting that it was 'long overdue'.
“Long overdue. I don’t know if anybody could read lips out there, but most of the stuff I was saying, you probably can’t say right now because it was a lot of ‘f*in right,’ and all that kind of stuff. It is long overdue. You talk about the fact that it’s long overdue. Maybe it’s right on time. I don’t know. But at this point, it’s feeling like the right time to me because I think a lot of people, you look into the winter time, I see the talk. People are like, ‘Oh, I don’t know. I think LA Knight’s fallen off.’ Am I fallen off now? Because I think last night when I walked out there and everybody got standing up, yelling, ‘LA Knight,’ my guy, new US Championship. We’re only taking off from here.I wanted this [title], now I got it. At this point now, for me, again, I talked about 2023 being the foundation. 2024 now is the time to start building that legacy, start building that legend of LA Knight."
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