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

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

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

The 29-year-old recalled successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital that he moved to Seattle retired of assemblage to get started successful nan business.

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Kevin Knight enters nan 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," he said. "I’m primitively from Brooklyn, New York. Raised down successful Atlanta. I started my wrestling profession erstwhile I moved to Seattle aft college. And astir six months in, I moved to LA to subordinate nan New Japan LA Dojo. For those that don’t know, it’s for illustration a Japanese style-based training.

"So, I was surviving a Japanese manner successful LA during nan pandemic. So, it was a batch of different factors going on. I deliberation that’s why I telephone myself ‘The Jet,’ because I person truthful galore different flavors from each different metropolis successful nan world conscionable each rolled up into one. I unrecorded successful Orlando now. Just a cool, alert feline who conscionable loves to do cool stuff."

Knight called training during nan coronavirus pandemic an "adjustment period," but he acknowledged that he could beryllium doing thing he wanted.

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

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"I could beryllium doing anything. I could beryllium flipping burgers, I could beryllium going to abstraction aliases something, I don’t know," he told Fox News Digital. "But conscionable astir pro wrestling, I conscionable loved nan position of it. I emotion nan showmanship, nan pyro, everything astir it. It conscionable seemed for illustration real-life superheroes coming down nan ramp.

"You saw nan commentators, you saw nan action. And then, group person cool taxable songs and cool costumes. I cognize what it was instantly and I conscionable for illustration nan pageantry of it and it was for illustration my type of watching superheroes aliases Spider-Man aliases 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, he became a free agent. Any institution could person signed him – and really, Bailey arsenic well.

Last March, Knight and Bailey some decided to motion pinch AEW. Knight explained nan X-factor that AEW had to make nan promotion guidelines retired supra nan rest.

Kevin Knight competes wrong nan 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 correct up to Tony (Khan), talk to him, person regular conversations pinch him," he said. "It’s not like, you person to locomotion connected eggshells. It was conscionable beryllium yourself and being yourself is conscionable a awesome gateway to conscionable being imaginative and being your champion self. There’s nary other added unit of, ‘Oh, I gotta opportunity hullo to 50 different group that I conscionable saw earlier today,’ and each of that stuff.

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

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

"It’s been nan workhorse title. It’s been nan title that group do nan unfastened challenges for. The champion wrestlers successful nan world person held this title, nan TNT Championship," he 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 nan one-year day of my AEW pay-per-view debut.

"Like it’s conscionable shown successful nan short magnitude of time, conscionable really accelerated you tin emergence up successful nan ranks conscionable by believing successful yourself, difficult work, subject and conscionable being successful nan correct spot astatine nan correct time. It’s been an astonishing travel and we’re conscionable getting started."

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

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

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

"This lucifer intends a batch to maine because I came from nan aforesaid schoolhouse that Darby Allin came from up successful Seattle – nan Buddy Wayne Academy," Knight told Fox News Digital. "And erstwhile I first met Darby, possibly I was 3-4 months into my career, and nan No. 1 point that he told maine was do not discarded time, do not discarded time. And, I consciousness for illustration I did conscionable that pinch my clip successful AEW. Here we are, a twelvemonth later, I’m already a champion. I’ve won nan trios titles doubly already.

"So, I consciousness for illustration I’m conscionable listening to what he 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 nan first clip location would beryllium a world title and a TNT Championship connected nan arms. So, I’m fresh for it."

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But don’t expect MJF to get different changeable astatine nan world title immoderate clip soon.

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