LA Knight won The Slim Jim Battle Royal at SummerSlam and got what had to be one of the biggest pops for a meaningless gimmick match in the history of wrestling. Given his prior booking, WWE fans were euphoric about The Megastar finally winning a match at a premium live event, and the talk immediately turned to how Triple H and company would continue his push. Would he go after Austin Theory’s United States Championship? Would he be elevated to the main event and start feuding with someone like Seth Rollns? Well, we got our answer on Monday. It looks like he’ll be feuding with The Miz.
I suspect some fans may have groaned when they saw it teased early on Raw with a photoshoot interaction between the two superstars, but later in the show, they delivered an absolutely fabulous promo battle that left both men looking better than when they came in. For about five minutes, they went back and forth, blurring the lines between a work and a shoot, with The Miz calling LA Knight an Attitude Era fanboy cosplaying in his ring and Knight saying The Miz has only been pushed for two decades because he’s a safe choice management can push around.
