Bully Ray has drawn parallels between the reception Oba Femi and LA Knight received on a recent edition of “WWE Raw,” arguing that the former is connecting with fans better.
Femi has quickly become a fan favorite in WWE, as evidenced on this week’s “Raw” in Paris, France, where he had the crowd bobbing to his music, chanting his name, and hanging on every word he said during his segment with Dominik Mysterio. Ray compared Femi’s reaction to that of LA Knight and first discussed why the former seems to have won over the fans.
“If you compare the Oba Femi segment and the LA Knight segment and how the fans are reacting to these two talents, because there’s lots of fan interaction when these guys are in the middle of the ring,” he began on “Busted Open.” “Oba has everybody on the edge of their seats, listening and hanging on every word he says, and they are responding to what Oba is saying, about the story they are telling in the ring. They’re responding to Oba saying that he’s gonna decimate every man in the King of the Ring. They’re responding to Oba saying he’s gonna go on to win the King of the Ring. They respond to him talking about Paul Heyman. They respond to him talking about Brock Lesnar. They obviously responded to him after the physicality last night with Dom Mysterio and the rest of the guys in the Judgment Day.”
Femi will face Dominik in the semifinals of the King of the Ring tournament, where he could meet LA Knight, the other wrestler mentioned in Ray’s comparison.
Ray questions fan response to LA Knight
LA Knight, too, had a promo segment on “WWE Raw,” where he came face-to-face with Jey Uso, whom he will face as well as Finn Balor and Royce Keys, in their first round match on “WWE SmackDown.” Ray feels that fans react to Knight’s taglines, but beyond that, fans aren’t responding much in comparison to Oba Femi.
“With LA Knight, what are they responding to?” he asked. “So I’m using Oba as my comparison, as to here’s one guy that’s holding the people, here’s another guy that’s not able to hold people, and I think that’s why we’re in the spot that we’re in with LA Knight for so long now. He hasn’t been able to hold the people past his taglines, and there’s always some kind of tiny little thing that goes wrong for him. Whether it’s him slipping on a rope, whether it’s the microphone being thrown to him and him dropping it. All those little things, every segment there seems to be something that you’re just like, oh man, oh crap, you know, like something always happening.”
Ray feels that fans aren’t emotionally invested in Knight, while he also thinks that he hasn’t progressed on the main roster, which could be a source of frustration for the former WWE United States Champion.
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