LA Knight might just be the hottest performer in WWE right now.

He has the catchphrases, he sells a ton of merch, and as the promotion has pushed him more and more with each passing month, fans are becoming increasingly eager to see his run “legitimized” with some sort of title belt for good measure.

One such fan is none other than two-time Hall of Famer and NXT commentator Booker T, who believes Knight is in the middle of one of the hottest streaks of any WWE performer in recent memory. While Booker obviously doesn't book the shows and doesn't claim to either, he's of the belief that when the iron is white-hot, it needs to be struck, and the “Megastar” is rapidly approaching that level of hype, as he noted on his Hall of Fame podcast.

“I don’t know if they’re gonna pull the trigger on him right now. But I tell you what, I never try to write the show. But I can tell you this, if they were to pull the trigger on LA Knight for the surprise, and how many people would go nuts. My thing is, I’m a fan, just like you guys. I’m wishing for LA Knight to get the big push. One thing about this business I always talk about, the sand in the hourglass, the clock is ticking, and you want to capitalize right now,” Booker T said via Fightful.

“You don’t want to wait until tomorrow to capitalize on something like LA Knight. Because that fire’s gonna burn out. It’s not gonna be this hot forever for LA Knight. It’s just like a wrestling match. You want to go home when the fire is as hot as it can be. White hot, go home. Send ‘em home, man. That’s what I’m saying, as a booker. So I think that’s the same thing with LA Knight. He’s hot, man. He’s white-hot. If they were to pull the trigger on LA Knight, I think the people would go nuts. I really do. You talk about Intercontinental Championship, I’m talking about the world championship, I’m talking about the WWE Title. If they put it on him right now, people would go nuts. They really would.”

On paper, Booker T is on the money, as plenty of WWE Superstars have seen their moment come and go without the promotion capitalizing on it for one reason or another, as Zack Ryder/Matt Cardnoa can clearly attest to. Still, whether WWE actually decides to pull the trigger on that title change at Crown Jewel, however, remains to be seen, as he will be wrestling the “Tribal Chief” himself, Roman Reigns.

Thunder Rosa wants to see LA Knight go over Roman Reigns.

While Booker T wants to see LA Knight go over and strap up in the not-too-distant future, former AEW Woman's World Champion Thunder Rose took things a step further and suggested that he should explicitly go over Roman Reigns and become the next Undisputed WWE Universal Champion.

Making her routine appearance on Busted Open Radio, Rosa expressed that, for her money, Knight deserves to be the guy who unseats Reigns as the “Head of the Table,” because he's the most organically over performer in the promotion.

“Who will be the next that can be over as h*ll that can take that title and take it to the next level?” Thunder Rosa said via Fightful. “At this moment right now, on Friday, it’s LA Knight. They didn’t push him, they didn’t shove him [down] our throats, it was natural… The guy is hot with the fans. Everybody’s like, ‘Yeah! Yeah!’ and everywhere you go — that’s the kind of thing that makes a superstar a superstar. He’s a superstar.”

Asked about the desire of her former co-worker, Cody Rhodes, to “finish the story” against the “Tribal Chief” at some point in the future, likely at WrestleMania 40, Rosa noted that, for her taste, WWE is taking far too long to make that happen and might be better off going with Knight, who likely wasn't in the cards in 2023 when he was left off the bill at SoFi.

“I think they’re taking too long with the ‘finish the story,'” Rosa noted. “I was kinda upset that he didn’t get the title [at WrestleMania 39] because he was hot at the time. I bet they were not expecting this, either, with LA Knight. They were not expecting him to get how hot he is at this point.”

Sometimes, the organic hype surrounding a performer forces WWE's hand, with Bryan Danielson still the poster boy of organic character development, changing the promotion's plans. Has the heat surrounding Knight, a performer who has never held a World Championship in a major promotion despite having a 20-plus year career, overshadowed the return of the second-generation “golden boy?” Fans will have to tune into Crown Jewel to find out.