'The Jet' Kevin Knight piloting championship career in All Elite Wrestling

"The Jet" Kevin Knight tin beryllium seen flying supra the pro wrestling ringing for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) connected Wednesday and Saturday nights connected "Dynamite" and "Collision" respectively.

Knight is the AEW TNT champion and was a trios champion with Adam Page and "Speedball" Mike Bailey and with Bailey and Místico. It’s lone been astir 7 years since Knight started to get into the manufacture and his meteoric emergence has led him to go 1 of the stars successful AEW.

The 29-year-old recalled successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital that helium moved to Seattle retired of assemblage to get started successful the business.

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Kevin Knight enters the ringing during New Japan Pro-Wrestling astatine National Yoyogi Gymnasium successful Tokyo connected May 17, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

"Who Kevin Knight, ‘The Jet,’ is – a batch of things rolled up into one," helium said. "I’m primitively from Brooklyn, New York. Raised down successful Atlanta. I started my wrestling vocation erstwhile I moved to Seattle aft college. And astir six months in, I moved to LA to articulation the New Japan LA Dojo. For those that don’t know, it’s similar a Japanese style-based training.

"So, I was surviving a Japanese manner successful LA during the pandemic. So, it was a batch of antithetic factors going on. I deliberation that’s wherefore I telephone myself ‘The Jet,’ due to the fact that I person truthful galore antithetic flavors from each antithetic metropolis successful the satellite conscionable each rolled up into one. I unrecorded successful Orlando now. Just a cool, alert feline who conscionable loves to bash chill stuff."

Knight called grooming during the coronavirus pandemic an "adjustment period," but helium acknowledged that helium could beryllium doing thing helium wanted.

He said determination were definite intricacies of pro wrestling that drew him successful – from the superhero entreaty of the wrestlers themselves to the pageantry successful the sport.

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"I could beryllium doing anything. I could beryllium flipping burgers, I could beryllium going to abstraction oregon something, I don’t know," helium told Fox News Digital. "But conscionable astir pro wrestling, I conscionable loved the presumption of it. I emotion the showmanship, the pyro, everything astir it. It conscionable seemed similar real-life superheroes coming down the ramp.

"You saw the commentators, you saw the action. And then, radical person chill taxable songs and chill costumes. I cognize what it was instantly and I conscionable similar the pageantry of it and it was similar my mentation of watching superheroes oregon Spider-Man oregon whatever. I wasn’t excessively overmuch into superheroes erstwhile I was young. But wrestlers, they were my superheroes increasing up. So, that’s what attracted maine to it."

Knight made waves successful New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), but for a split-second, helium became a escaped agent. Any institution could person signed him – and really, Bailey arsenic well.

Last March, Knight and Bailey some decided to motion with AEW. Knight explained the X-factor that AEW had to marque the promotion basal retired supra the rest.

Kevin Knight competes wrong the ringing during New Japan Pro-Wrestling astatine Korakuen Hall successful Tokyo connected May 15, 2025. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

"AEW allows freedom, state of expression, to beryllium yourself and you tin locomotion close up to Tony (Khan), speech to him, person regular conversations with him," helium said. "It’s not like, you person to locomotion connected eggshells. It was conscionable beryllium yourself and being yourself is conscionable a large gateway to conscionable being originative and being your champion self. There’s nary other added unit of, ‘Oh, I gotta accidental hullo to 50 different radical that I conscionable saw earlier today,’ and each of that stuff.

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"So, AEW, conscionable successful the instrumentality base, the roster, the catering, man, everything astir AEW is similar 10 retired of 10. I can’t complain. In my escaped agency, I explored each my options and I consciousness similar this was conscionable the champion fit."

Knight won the vacant TNT Championship successful a six-man casino gauntlet lucifer astatine Dynasty past month. It was the archetypal singles rubric of his vocation and the 32nd champion altogether, pursuing the likes of Darby Allin, Kyle Fletcher, Christian Cage, Jack Perry and others.

"It’s been the workhorse title. It’s been the rubric that radical bash the unfastened challenges for. The champion wrestlers successful the satellite person held this title, the TNT Championship," helium said. "For maine to beryllium capable to clasp this and for this being my first-ever singles title successful my career, was an astonishing feat particularly connected the one-year day of my AEW pay-per-view debut.

"Like it’s conscionable shown successful the abbreviated magnitude of time, conscionable however accelerated you tin emergence up successful the ranks conscionable by believing successful yourself, hard work, subject and conscionable being successful the close spot astatine the close time. It’s been an astonishing travel and we’re conscionable getting started."

Kevin Knight enters the ringing during the New Japan Pro-Wrestling Wrestling DONTAKU 2023 lawsuit astatine Fukuoka Kokusai Center successful Fukuoka, Japan, connected May 3, 2023. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

Now, Knight earned a changeable astatine the AEW World Championship connected Wednesday nighttime connected "Dynamite" against Allin. He defeated Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF) to gain the changeable portion Allin defeated Brody King to clasp the title past week.

For Knight, helium suggested it was a full-circle infinitesimal for him arsenic helium utilized Allen’s proposal erstwhile helium was getting started successful the industry.

"This lucifer means a batch to maine due to the fact that I came from the aforesaid schoolhouse that Darby Allin came from up successful Seattle – the Buddy Wayne Academy," Knight told Fox News Digital. "And erstwhile I archetypal met Darby, possibly I was 3-4 months into my career, and the No. 1 happening that helium told maine was bash not discarded time, bash not discarded time. And, I consciousness similar I did conscionable that with my clip successful AEW. Here we are, a twelvemonth later, I’m already a champion. I’ve won the trios titles doubly already.

"So, I consciousness similar I’m conscionable listening to what helium said and it’s each coming to fruition. It’s coming to a caput this Wednesday. Definitely not going to discarded immoderate time. I deliberation this would beryllium the archetypal clip determination would beryllium a satellite title and a TNT Championship connected the arms. So, I’m acceptable for it."

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But don’t expect MJF to get different changeable astatine the satellite rubric immoderate clip soon.

"Honestly, he’s successful the backmost of the line. He’s successful the backmost of the line. He mislaid against Darby. He mislaid against maine arsenic well. He’s had 2 losses successful a row. So, I’m not definite what his resume speaks for to get a changeable astatine the title," Knight said. "I cognize he’s gonna effort to ringworm his mode into the rubric representation again. If it’s up to me, the archetypal idiosyncratic that’s getting a rubric changeable is ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey. MJF, backmost of the line."