Two people who stood in the queue in Minneapolis have told SEScoops the same thing. LA Knight was not late.
A fan posted a video after the SummerSlam Meet and Greet Experience at the Minneapolis Convention Center saying Knight arrived around 45 minutes after his scheduled slot, and that her young children were worn out by the wait. Her account was not hostile. She said the family were still glad to meet him, that he was pleasant, and asked only that he keep better time in future.
Two readers have since written in to dispute the timing and to point somewhere else entirely.
LA Knight was not late. I would know, I was literally standing in line and he was on time.
The first reader put the problem with the operation rather than the talent.
If I had any complaints it would be the actual staff there at Takeover in Minneapolis. They made the experience awful. We were herded exactly as cattle would be. I can’t place ANY blame on the actual talent. They were limited to what the staff would allow, and for a paid experience they made it absolutely awful.
To blame LA Knight is unfair. The blame needs to be placed on the Takeover event staff and the Minneapolis Convention Center.
He says he raised it with WWE at the time and doubts he was the only one.
A second reader, who was placed in a separate line near the front, backed that up and added detail on why the session felt rushed.
I too was in line, matter of fact I was placed in a second line at the very front near where the table was located, and I can personally verify that LA Knight showed up on time. Not 45 minutes late as previously reported.
He was forced to move quickly with everything he was doing because of his scheduled time. Based on what was to be done, autographs and photo ops, the time was cutting it very close to showtime.
He describes the same conditions Davies did.
The areas they had us standing were very narrow and if you so much as stepped outside of a line you were told by a security guard to get back in line almost instantly. You felt almost as if the money to get an autograph and a photo op from LA was a major inconvenience, and feeling that way completely ruined what should have been an awesome experience.
LA did the absolute best he could with the time that he was given. There were a lot of people and not a lot of time to be personable or truly interact. To me, that falls on scheduling, NOT LA. For me personally, it falls on the event staff.
None of the three accounts has been independently verified, and the two sides cannot both be right about the clock. What all three agree on is that the experience was a poor one, and none of them holds Knight responsible for it. The original video described him as pleasant.
The commercial context matters. WWE ran autographs and photo ops through SummerSlam Takeover across all three days, sold in timed slots through summerslamphotos.com rather than offered as free walk-ups. WWE’s own listings carry a talent subject to change disclaimer.
Neither Knight, WWE nor the Minneapolis Convention Center has commented publicly.
Knight worked SummerSlam itself, teaming with Solo Sikoa and Royce Keys to beat The Bloodline on Night One, and appeared on Monday’s Raw in Des Moines to confront Roman Reigns.
