The former Million Dollar Champion went on to say that he’s finally resonating with the WWE audience because he’s finally “talking my trash and I’m doing my thing.” But he almost gave up the chance to do that again. Knight revealed that he was almost ready to hang up his boots before returning to the company.

“There was one point during the pandemic. It was 2020 and I just said, ‘This is probably it. There’s probably no chance for me to make that move again.’ And so I kind of just accepted that. Make the little bits of money where I can in different companies and whatnot. Then at some point, as I was in that thought, I [said], ‘Maybe I’ll make one last overture. I’ll figure this out [and] we’ll get this done.’ Lo and behold, here we are.”

Whether it was his heat with a former head coach (which is what led to his initial departure from WWE years ago), doubting his own abilities, or letting the gravity of the ongoing pandemic get the better of him, Knight is firmly looking ahead to bigger and better things.

“I ain’t gonna dwell in the past,” he said. “The bottom line is here [and] now I’m doing me. I’m being me and there’s a reason it’s working.”

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