LA Knight teased the idea of hanging up his boots after failing to get the job done at Money In The Bank.
The 40-year-old megastar at in on Saturday night but Damian Priest was the man to , and the following night in Cardiff, Knight addressed the live crowd and claimed he had wrestled his last match.
He began: ‘Nobody back there knows this right now, but last night was my last match. If I wasn’t coming out with that case, it’s all over for me. I wanted to come out and feel this one more in my gear, standing in this ring, before I say goodbye.’
In videos shared on , the crowd appeared stunned as Knight stood in the ring and suggested he was retiring, but he soon delivered the epic twist.
‘Or at least that’s what they’d like me to say,’ he said to a huge roar from the fans.
‘So, let me talk to ya,’ he continued. ‘I stand here right now thinking about what happened last night. That case, hanging up there, in my grasp, about to pull it down. At long last, it comes down in the hands of who? Who? Who cares.
‘It didn’t come down in the hands of LA Knight. Here’s how it goes. I haven’t been given anything since I walked through the door, let’s face facts, and here I stand, top of the industry.
‘Here I stand, the man, all over the place, everywhere you go. Everywhere, all around the round, it’s the same song, and how’s that song go? With everybody saying [LA Knight]!’
Still playing the antagonist despite the groundswell of support over the past few months, Knight insisted he doesn’t ‘need’ the fans or their cheers, but instead he will reach the top through his own talent.
‘The reason ain’t y’all. The reason is me. You can feel cool saying my name all you want, but I don’t need y’all, let’s be honest. I didn’t need that case either,’ he said.
‘Just like I made myself a top man in this industry is the same way, with or without a case, I will make myself a champion sooner or later, and there ain’t nobody that can stop me. That’s not an insult. That’s just a fact of life.’
