For months now the wrestling world has been talking about Karrion Kross and his contract status with WWE. Over the weekend the former NXT Champion’s contract officially expired and Kross wasted no time when it came to addressing his departure from the company.
In a new video on his YouTube channel Kross talked about his now infamous promo that he cut after WrestleMania 41, and he noted that he felt like he slipped into another timeline following the show.
“I’ve been f****d. Things are not bad, things are just very strange. I feel like the following day after WrestleMania and the Sam Roberts podcast, I literally slipped into another timeline. Once it was done, everyone was like ‘holy s**t, that was amazing’, and he was saying to me ‘that’s the guy we need’, and I said before I left ‘please make sure everyone knows this was a work, let everyone know that I love it here, and I’m just doing my job’.”
Karrion Kross also talked about not wanting the fans who were supporting him to feel like they were being ignored when he added, “I remember there were some people saying in the beginning it’s not gonna last, and let’s see if it’s still there in a different city. When it was still there and it got louder every week, it was ‘well we’re not really ready to sort of embrace that’.
“I was being told by certain people not to embrace it, and that felt wrong, because having a connection to the audience like this doesn’t come around for everybody, and it wasn’t something that was constructed. This happened organically because of what has happened over the last 3 years, we are getting to a tipping point.
“It can be said that it started because I punched through something, and everyone saw what was on the other side, but I don’t feel like we’re collectively going in the direction that the audience would want us to go in, so that part doesn’t feel good.”
“Things feel f**ked. It’s impossible to ignore it, and I don’t want people to feel like they’re being ignored, and a lot of them do, which is why it’s getting louder. And I knew this was going to happen.
“If we didn’t lean into what the audience is asking for, or what they want to see, they’re going to get louder. Pretending it’s not there or convincing yourself it’s going to go away – it’s not.”
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