LA Knight reveals a change to his backstage routine following the second season of WWE: Unreal

At the same time, I partially understand why they’re doing it. I could maybe possibly see a benefit in some outsider view, like if somebody’s never watched wrestling before and they kind of see the intricacies of what goes into it and things like that. But the bottom line is, we’re not getting a lot of those viewers anyway. A lot of it is the people who are the diehards, and I don’t necessarily think even some of them might think going in, “Oh, I want to know how this works.” I don’t think most of them really do, if you really got down to it. So with that being the case, I personally don’t think it’s super productive. But again, I understand why they’re doing it.

I have definitely shifted the way that I do some things. Because you had mentioned my appearance on Unreal there, and I was majorly holding my tongue in that scenario, if you could tell when I looked. I had my own frustrations about that situation that partially had to do with the finish, but more so had to do with a more overarching theme that I don’t need to get into the weeds about right here.

Also, although they told us, ‘Hey, Unreal is going to be here today, they’re going to be filming stuff,’ I had no idea that I was being filmed. I had no idea that I was on a microphone at that point in time. With that being the case, I don’t even stop there in Gorilla anymore. When my match is over, my segment is over, you never know what’s going to get captured. I go straight through, and I go back to the locker room.

If they want to talk to me about my match or whatever happened out there, sure, let’s talk about it when there’s not a microphone and camera around, because that’s how it’s always been. And with that being the case, I’m not going to stop in there and leave myself susceptible to that.”