While watching LA Knight in NXT fans assumed that he had a good shot of making it on the main roster, but when he got called up he debuted with a different gimmick. Knight’s name was changed to Max Dupri and he debuted as the manager for a group called Maximum Male Models.
After Triple H took over creative for WWE, Max Dupri reverted to LA Knight, and the change seems to be going well for him so far. Recently LA Knight spoke to Yahoo about the Max Dupri character and why LA Knight is a better fit for him.
“There was an NXT built-in audience that knew who LA Knight was. So now here comes this other character being introduced and so for those people, it was like, ‘Wait, what is this?’” Knight explained. “But when you look at the numbers of a SmackDown audience, for a large swath of those people, they are seeing me for the first time. So I could’ve been Joe Shmoe for all it matters. In a strange sense, that would have actually worked just because three quarters of that audience is seeing me for the first time regardless of who I am. At the same time though, I think there is a matter of the shoe fitting and not. I will make any [character] work, but when it comes down to it, there was one that was way more ‘me’ than the other one.”
LA Knight is currently involved in a feud with Bray Wyatt and it’s expected that the feud will lead to Wyatt’s first match since returning to WWE.
