Killer Kross further speaks about his time with WWE.
In one month, Killer Kross will officially be a free agent. He spent the last several years as a part of WWE and in November 2021, he was let go from the company after competing in nine TV matches since joining the Raw roster during the summer.
Kross was one of 26 talents released from WWE during the month of November. He shared the ring with the likes of Jeff Hardy, Ricochet and Keith Lee on Raw but was not able to get a long form program going.
Kross told Chris Van Vliet during their chat that he’s been told by several people that there were conversations about him working with Randy Orton or Bray Wyatt among others while he was still in WWE. Kross added that those matches were not concrete and were just suggestions.
No, but I did have several people tell me that there were conversations of me working with Randy, Bobby, Drew, Bray and maybe Roman. But nothing was concrete, it was just mentioned as possible matchups, which I was thrilled for, who wouldn’t be? You want to work with these people, they are the best of the best. But when I got there, it was showing up and doing what they want you to do.
Scarlett Bordeaux previously shared that she and Kross thought they were going to land in AEW. Kross confirmed and explained that he was determined to find success in WWE because people were convinced that he would find success in AEW. That led to him thinking that maybe the public thought the opposite for him in WWE.
He said it was a essentially a done deal at the time and he wanted to prove to people that he could find success in the company.
Yes. Yes it was [AEW was an option]. So at that time, I was trying to swerve people as to where I was going to go, because when I put the post out on Twitter I already knew. I was trying to do my best to protect that as much as I could and protect my work. So I put out the post saying, ‘Hey, where would you like to see me go next?’ And it was an overwhelming amount of people saying that they wanted to see me go to AEW. I was like [groans]. I had that Peter Griffin moment [with the knee]. I know that there’s a lot of different ways to look at that, but one way I looked at it was that it kind of p*ssed me off. This is my own doing and I know it wasn’t meant to be this way, but at the time, when I saw the amount of people that wanted me to go to AEW instead of WWE or New Japan, I was like well why are people so convinced that I would find more success in AEW? Do they think I can’t become successful in WWE? So I was going to show them that I can and I will. It was pretty much a done deal at that time. I understand that as time went on, they were not saying it in a resentful way, they probably thought that I would find the best version of myself [in AEW].
Both Kross and Scarlett have landed film roles. To read more about their respective roles, check out POST Wrestling’s coverage of Kross’ comments on the topic.
