LA Knight Was Told He Should Have Raised John Cena’s Hand At WWE Payback

LA Knight had to do things his way. 

At WWE Payback, LA Knight defeated The Miz with John Cena as the special guest referee. After the match, Cena went to raise Knight’s hand, but Knight had some things to say before he eventually accepted Cena’s gesture. 

According to Knight, he was told that was the wrong move. 

“Had the match with The Miz, here is Cena as the guest referee. I win that match, there is the back and forth we had. We’re at the entryway, it’s me and John, he goes to shake my hand, and I kind of hesitate, and I come up and am jaw-jacking with him. I kind of acquiesced and he raises the hand. I get to the back and somebody says, ‘You can’t do that to John. That’s John Cena. You can’t just shake his hand, you raise his hand.’ I was like, ‘Thank you, I see your advice, I see why you would say that, but I have to trust myself in this process and trust who I am and what I’m doing.’ When I talked to John, he was like, ‘You did the right thing. You did the right thing by you,'” Knight recalled on Gorilla Position. 

Cena & Knight would team at WWE Fastlane to defeat Solo Sikoa & Jimmy Uso. 

“At Fastlane, the match ends, he goes to raise my hand, and I pulled out. When I did that, he goes, ‘You son of a bitch.’ He knew then. He wanted to give me a hand raise, and at that point, I wanted to call back to the moment we had at The Miz match where we had the tension. He wanted to raise the hand, ‘No, we’re not doing that,’ boom, give him the respect,” said Knight.

Knight and Cena were featured in multiple segments together during Cena’s run on WWE SmackDown in the fall. 

Fans can find Cena’s comments on Knight and working with him by clicking here. 

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