LA Knight on problems in his first WWE run: Without getting too deep into the details, me and the, at the time head coach (Bill DeMott), from about day one, did not get along. I was pretty much told from day one that ‘I expect to hate you.’ At which point I’m thinking, why the hell am I here?

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Without getting too deep into the details, me and the, at the time head coach, from about day one, did not get along. I was pretty much told from day one that ‘I expect to hate you.’ At which point I’m thinking, why the hell am I here? So about a good 12 months, it was just me poking the bear and him hating me, it went back and forth until finally, my ass was out a year later. I was told on my way out. ‘We think you’re very talented. We would like you to come back at some pint, but there’s a stigma around you. There’s a perception issue, we need that perception not go away. So for that perception to go away, you need to go away.

Source: Inside the Ropes