LA Knight knows where he got his now-trademark catchphrase.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Knight was asked about the origin of “yeah.”
“I can’t remember the exact origin, but I know where. We were at the Performance Center the first time around, back in 2013, 2014. At the time, one of the coaches would explain stuff to us when I was in his class and whatnot, and when we’d talk to me personally and he’d be saying stuff, you know how some people will go, ‘Uh huh,’ I would keep just going, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ He kind of almost took offense, but in a joking way, where he’s just like, ‘What?’ So I leaned into that. So now he would be saying stuff, and I’d just be like, ‘Yeah,’ kind of like, ‘Duh, yeah.’
“So now, one of the things that I was very quoted as saying walking around the PC back in 2013, I don’t even remember why, but I would just be like, ‘Everybody,’ and I mean everybody from top to bottom in the PC would just be saying it at random to me. So now, if I would walk in the building, a handful of people would go, ‘Everybody,’ and so I felt weird saying it back to them. I would only say it if it came out or whatever. It would give me goose chills if they said something to me and I said it back. So they’d give me, ‘Everybody,’ and I would go, ‘Yeah.’ So it was just something that I was saying there.
LA Knight then noted how he used the phrase during his on-air run in IMPACT Wrestling.
“Fast forward, I’m fired, I’m in TNA, I’m doing Fact of Life. They’re like, ‘Hey, you got the dummy button. Go in this truck and let’s just record you saying ‘dummy’ a bunch of different ways.’ So I’m sitting there, and I’m like, ‘Dummy, dummy, dummy, yeah.’ Just once of those times adding the ‘yeah,’ it was like, okay, that’s the one. So that stuck, so now you got that button doing that all the time. So every time it would go, ‘Dummy, yeah.,’ I’d follow it up with another, ‘Yeah.’ Eventually, dummy kind of fell away, and yeah remained.”
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