LA Knight to take a page out of Stone Cold Steve Austin's playbook on SmackDown? Exploring the chances

The upcoming episode of SmackDown is something LA Knight must be looking forward to. After all, the 41-year-old will head into Friday night's show as the United States Champion. At SummerSlam, The Megastar beat Logan Paul to win the title.

While the night on Friday will mainly be a celebration, there is a chance LA Knight could do something iconic. He could take a page out of Stone Cold Steve Austin's playbook and re-create an iconic moment with Logan Paul. The moment in question is Knight giving The Maverick a PRIME bath.

Before their SummerSlam match began, LA Knight damaged Logan Paul's PRIME truck, which was stolen by the former the night before on the go-home episode of the blue brand. On SmackDown, Knight could appear on the screen and tell Logan his truck had been fixed. Post this, the new United States Champion could make his way to the ring.

However, instead of entering the ring, Knight could stay outside it and give Logan a PRIME bath, the way Stone Cold Steve Austin gave Vince McMahon a beer bath. While the angle is speculative, if Knight does something like that, it will recreate an iconic scene and also leave several professional wrestling fans feeling very nostalgic.

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Logan Paul recently said LA Knight's belt belongs to him

Before SummerSlam 2024, LA Knight had tried to win his first singles championship in WWE on many occasions. However, he fell short every time and had to wait until the premium live event last Saturday where he finally beat Logan Paul fair and square to win the United States Championship.

During an episode of ImPaulsive in which The Undertaker was a guest, Logan congratulated Knight. He said that he had the belt by his side at all times ever since he had won it last year and felt a lot of new wrestling fans would associate the belt only with him. He also noted how strange it felt for him to see the 41-year-old with 'his belt.'

"I tried to take it everywhere. Glued it to my side. I bet if people see that, like in this generation of wrestling fans, people will see it and always be like, 'That's Logan Paul's belt.' Congratulations to LA Knight but, man, I saw him post a picture of him with the belt, my belt, literally I was like, 'Bro that's my belt.' It's just crazy to see it with someone else," he said. [From 16:22 to 16:52]

Check out his comments in the video below:

It can't be denied that as champion, Logan Paul did do a lot for the United States Championship by taking it everywhere he could. Hence, given how long he was champion mixed with everything else he did for the visibility of the title belt, it will be interesting to see if WWE gives the 29-year-old a rematch against The Megastar.