\u201cVince [McMahon] told me before, \u2018You gotta talk soft, I don\u2019t want you to say or do any of the things that you used to do, none of that, whatever.\u2019 If I\u2019m honest, though, he wasn\u2019t familiar with any of it. He didn\u2019t know LA Knight. I think he was told a little bit,\u201d Knight said.<\/p>\n
The 43-year-old further said that while McMahon was impressed with his singles match against Roderick Strong, he hesitated because of his age<\/a>. McMahon was allegedly not interested in pushing a 39-year-old Knight and instead wanted him as a manager.<\/p>\n \u201cThat first day of introducing the models, and we\u2019re doing the little rehearsal thing, talk-through. And he comes down, and he\u2019s like, \u2018I need you to talk softer.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, okay, well, I\u2019m thinking like, you had me talking soft in the backstage, but like now I\u2019m doing a presentation. I need to be a little bigger, right? To present to the people. But it\u2019s his show. Sure. And he goes, \u2018Just read me a line from there as softly as you can.\u2019 He\u2019s like, \u2018I don\u2019t think you can be effeminate, but try and be effeminate without being effeminate.\u2019 What?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n What was the idea behind LA Knight\u2019s Max Dupri character in WWE?<\/p>\n Further continuing the conversation, Knight recalled how he was initially given the impression that the Max Dupri character would take a trajectory similar to Roddy Piper.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bill of goods that was sold to me there was that I was going to be kind of a Roddy Piper. In the sense of when Roddy first came in, he was like a manager, a mouthpiece that then sometimes wrestled, and then eventually just became a full-time wrestler. That was kind of how it was painted to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Paired with Maxxine Dupri on the main roster, the Max Dupri character never took off, and the former champion was slowly transitioned back into his LA Knight character.<\/p>\n
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