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LA Knight Pitched For New WWE Story Where He Can’t Talk Anymore

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WWE legend pitched an interesting story regarding LA Knight’s abilities to talk.

LA Knight is arguably one of the top babyfaces in WWE at the moment. Aside from his in-ring skills, one of his best qualities is the way he can connect with fans through his promos and catchphrases. However, despite being continuously supported by fans, it’s not enough for the Stamford-based promotion to award him the World Championship.

Due to how WWE is handling LA Knight, wrestling legend Bully Ray thought of an interesting angle to put the RAW star in to continuously get fan support, all the while remaining relevant, which is to gain him sympathy by taking away his ability to talk.

Bully Ray Suggests LA Knight’s Larynx Should Be “Crushed”

In a recent episode of Busted Open podcast, Bully Ray and Dave Lagreca talked about LA Knight’s current booking and the former noted that instead of placing the RAW star in a World title picture, he should be in a blood feud where the heel would mock him for not being able to win any major championships, how he is on his way to the irrelevancy, and that fans didn’t truly like him.

Bully Ray then suggested that, since Knight is known for his promos, his future rival should injure his throat in some way to take away his ability to talk, even adding that steel chairs should be involved in the manner of doing so.

The people like to talk with him. They like to recite his taglines. ‘LA Knight, yeah, let me talk to you.’ People are into that. That’s the positive of LA Knight. Crush his Larynx. Take his voice away. I’ve made this suggestion for people like CM Punk, the voice of the voiceless. We’ll take the voice away from the voice of the voiceless. LA Knight, take his voice away. Put the steel chair on his neck and take another steel chair and smack it into the legs of that steel chair and drive the lip of the chair into his Larynx. Crush his Larynx so he can’t talk anymore.

The WWE Hall of Famer continued that a heel should make fun of LA’s inability to talk and, when the time is right, have Knight talk again all of a sudden to shock fans, all the while creating sympathy and building The Megastar further as a babyface.

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Drew McIntyre Reveals Terrible Gimmick Pitched To Him In First Run

Drew McIntyre’s first WWE run could have looked very different.

The former World Champion recently appeared on the No Contest Wrestling podcast. He talked about things such as his upcoming Saturday Night’s Main Event match with Cody Rhodes, having a world title run during the pandemic and more.

During the talk, McIntyre was also asked about his ‘Chosen One’ gimmick and if the company had any other plans for him before that. Drew revealed that there were multiple ideas floated around. One of them was for the Scottish star to debut as ‘The Runway Man’, pitched by the then talent relations head John Laurinaitis:

“I was listening to him describe the character and thought, ‘oh no, oh no, oh no.†Then he went ‘the name, the Runway Man, youâ€re going to have your own model runway and youâ€re going to walk down like a model.†And youâ€re like, oh my goodness.

I was picturing in my head, basically all my dreams were going to hell. The lifeâ€s work of a Scotsman, it was all going down the toilet.”

I Think He Read Me: Drew McIntyre

Drew McIntyre originally made his WWE debut in October 2007. He wrestled a few matches on the main roster before being sent down to FCW. The wrestling veteran reappeared on SmackDown a couple years later in August 2009. A month later, then WWE Chairman Vince McMahon promoted him on-screen as a future main eventer, which was the origin of his Chosen One gimmick.

Explaining how he managed to avoid becoming The Runway Man instead, McIntyre claimed that Mr. McMahon had seen the trepidation on his face when they went in to pitch the gimmick:

“The next meeting after Johnny was to go to Vince himself and pitch this idea, and I kind of sat silent and Johnny pitched it to Vince, and I think Vince saw my face the whole time.

He just said, ‘what do you think?†(I was like) ‘Whatever you need me to do; Iâ€ll make it work.†But I had my head down the whole time. and I think he read me like he doesnâ€t want to do this.”

Apart from this, Drew McIntyre discussed being released from WWE in 2014 and revealed what he was planning before the company brought him back in 2017. You can check out his remarks here.

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