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With IShowSpeed and Logan Paul in action at WWE WrestleMania 42, LA Knight has praised both stars ahead of their match.
WWE WrestleMania 42 sees IShowSpeed team up with The Vision (Logan Paul & Austin Theory) to take on The Usos & LA Knight on Night 1.
This all comes after a series of unfortunate events for IShowSpeed that very much started with Danhausen’s curse, leading the social media influencer inadvertently knocking LA Knight to the ground.
While LA Knight may have retaliated by attacking IShowSpeed on a livestream, a recent interview on WrestleMania 42 media row saw the WWE star praise both the streamer and Logan Paul.
Speaking to Nightcap, Knight reflected on “bringing in outsiders” before giving credit to IShowSpeed for what he’s achieved so far, saying:
“Well, this ain’t my first time. With Logan Paul back in 2024, I won the United States Championship from Logan Paul.
“Our audience gets a little hot sometimes when you’re bringing in outsiders, and especially when it’s somebody who, maybe they haven’t paid their dues, maybe they haven’t respected the business, yadda yadda yadda…
“When you’re thinking about IShowSpeed, I’m gonna show fists right in his face, and that’s what we’re looking at. So it’s gonna be a good time.
“But I’ve gotta give him credit, because you talk about the crossover, you talk about the appeal there and whatnot, and how we’ve been very good as a company at making those things work.
“They just put out a stat, I think the views on, I think IShowSpeed got pushed by Logan Paul into the back of me, it’s the highest viewed clip in the history of any of our social media clips.
“So I can respect that, I can take my hat off to those guys. But at the same time, Saturday, it’s gonna be a hard, long night.”
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Knight would then turn his attention Logan Paul, who revealed he signed a full-time WWE contract earlier this year, praising the star’s presence, stating:
“In all honesty, he’s been putting his heart and soul into it. Again, I can take my hat off to that.
“I know a lot of people don’t like him, but the bottom line is he’s been showing up a lot more often, he’s not as part-time as he used to be.
“He’s in and he’s doing it, and it’s showing. So I’ve at least got to give him props for that.”
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Logan Paul is one-half of the WWE World Tag Team Champions, alongside his teammate in The Vision, Austin Theory.
The Influence Of Logan Paul In WWE
Debuting in April 2021, Logan Paul went on to have a WrestleMania moment of his own by delivering a Stunner to Kevin Owens after the star’s victory over Sami Zayn.
Far from a throw away moment at a WWE Premium Live Event, Paul would return later that year, leading his first match at WrestleMania 38, teaming with The Miz to take on Rey & Dominik Mysterio.
Pretty much a marquee moment player at the time, an injury would see Paul sidelined, only to return at the 2023 Royal Rumble, once again primarily competed on PLEs, with the build up to those matches seeing him appear on television as necessary, a format that pretty much runs to this day, although he has stepped into the ring on WWE Raw & SmackDown from time to time.
Beyond his own presence, however, Paul has brought other social media names into play, not just in the form of IShowSpeed, but also including the likes of KSI, who found himself on the receiving end of an RKO from Randy Orton in March 2024.
Seeing other social media influencers on WWE television is, arguably, due to the influence of Logan Paul and, subsequently, the media attention that it offers to the TKO-owned company. Despite the number of names in Paul’s orbit, there’s clearly a selective approach to who makes their presence felt and in what capacity, but so far, there’s been a degree of success running through.
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