LA Knight has been drawing comparisons to The Rock for months but the pair have actually been on a collision course for ten years. The 40-year-old has become one of WWE’s fastest-rising stars with …
LA Knight has been drawing comparisons to The Rock for months but the pair have actually been on a collision course for ten years.with his ascent to the top one of wrestling's feel-good stories of the year.Knight - real name Shaun Ricker - suffered the long road to join the ranks of WWE's elite with a lengthy stint on the independent scene.
During this time, he also featured in numerous roles across the media from adverts for Aldi to the fourth season of GLOW - which was later scrapped. But most memorably, Knight starred alongside Terry Crews as bodybuilder Mario in a season two episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Since reverting back to his character LA Knight from Maximum Male Model's talent agent Max Dupri in WWE last year he has excelled.And his skill on the microphone to channel the spirit of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin has naturally caught the hearts of fans."If anybody wants to put my name in with those guys that's cool because that's a hell of an elevation right there.
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