LA Knight opens up about eliminating Brock Lesnar from the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble match.
During his recent appearance on the INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet podcast, LA Knight revealed that Brock Lesnar’s elimination at the 2026 WWE Royal Rumble did not go according to plan. He teamed up with Cody Rhodes to throw Lesnar over the top rope. However, he didn’t provide any further details and said it’s a story for another day.
“I did (Eliminate Brock Lesnar). I’ll tell that story someday, but it feels too new and fresh to me. But I’ll just say things went differently than they were supposed to.”
LA Knight and Cody Rhodes eliminated Brock Lesnar as Jey Uso was coming in as the 25th entrant. However, fan-captured footage shows Lesnar seemingly instructing Rhodes and Knight to attack and throw him out of the ring.
LA Knight also teased a story about the meaning of his hand gesture
During the same interview, Chris Van Vliet asked LA Knight about the meaning of his hand gesture. However, the former United States Champion said it was a secret and teased telling the story behind it in a few years. He did note that it’s very easy to decode, and hinted that it links him to his past.
“It’s a secret, and I’ll tell it in a few years. That it’s a very easy-to-decode secret that’s right in front of everybody’s eyes, but at the same time… So I used to come out and do this when I’d hit the buckle, but then I saw I was always thinking like someday I’m going to be in WWE, so I was always working that way, and I didn’t want to do anything that seemed like something somebody else was doing,” LA Knight said.
“So then AJ started doing this, and I was like, “Close, can’t do it. And I was like well, what can I do? I can’t just do this, that’s Austin, whatever. I was like, well, what else can I do? And I started thinking like different hand signs and stuff, and I’m looking at sign language, and I’m like, no, that sucks. Then at some point I found something where I was like, oh, I think I kind of like that, and I started kind of doing it a little bit, and I was like, I’m gonna stick with that,” LA Knight continued.
“I started doing it, and then I started noticing people out there doing it, and I was like, yeah, I think we’re good, I think we’re good with this. Eventually, I’ll tell the story, but it says something there, it says something that links me to my past,” he concluded.
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