In recent months a number of WWE stars have parted ways with the company such as Andrade, Jazmyn Nyx and more recently Santos Escobar. Back in August, Karrion Kross officially finished up with WWE after his contract expired, and there’s been a lot of talk about his departure ever since.
Following WrestleMania 41, Karrion Kross got the wrestling world talking when he cut a passionate promo where he addressed the “guy in the suit and tie in the truck.” While Kross received a lot of praise from fans on social media for the promo, it seems that it rubbed some people the wrong way.
During a recent appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Kross addressed the backstage reaction to the promo while confirming that he had backstage heat. He then went on to note that Triple H specifically wasn’t happy with the promo.
“So we do that. Everybody loved it. We leave. The next day was weird at Raw. So aside from everything that I’ve talked about, so we don’t talk about it again, I get a phone call from somebody in talent relations, and he says, ‘Creative is not happy. There’s heat. They’re p*ssed.’ I was like, Well, I apologize about that. Let me go take care of that right now. I have a great relationship with them. They’re right across the hall. He’s like uh, I said, ‘No, no, dude, this is my fault. Let me take care of it. No problem.’ I go across the hall. I speak to some of the writers, explain everything. They’re like, ‘We have no idea what you’re talking about. We haven’t talked to that guy in two weeks.’ Some of them didn’t even see it. So I was like, What’s going on here?”
“So walk around the building and just looking at everything, everyone’s saying, Hello, everything feels fine. I call him back, no answer. The next day, no answer. I think it was like the third day he finally picked up. He’s like, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t have said it that way. I apologize, it was actually Hunter.’ And I was like, man. ‘So since we spoke, have you talked to Hunter and explained everything to him that I explained to you?’ He’s like, ‘No.’ And I was like, so you’re letting our boss just sit there and fume for how many days now? You could have just told me this on Monday. He was down the hall. Could go talk to him and just explain all this. This is like a misunderstanding.”
“So I eventually did speak with Hunter and cleared the air with him, you know, it’s a massive company with a lot of different departments, and not all of them are in lockstep with communication. He was super cool about it. Once we spoke to him, he understood where I was coming from. It wasn’t like a live thing. It was on YouTube. But just weird man. That wasn’t the first time I got an apology from him.”