Karrion Kross Says No One Told Higher Ups Post-WrestleMania 41 Promo Was A Work, Had To Explain Things To Triple H

Karrion Kross had to explain himself.

During the WrestleMania 41 recap show, Karrion Kross cut a scathing promo and addressed not being booked for the card, the state of professional wrestling, and the industry’s obsession with viral moments.

The promo garnered a ton of attention online, even catching the buzz of many people within WWE.

Speaking with Ariel Helwani on a recent episode of The MMA Hour, Kross was asked if his promo offended some of the higher-ups in the company.

“I don’t want to speak on behalf of them, but this is what I will say about it. A lot of everything you see goes through a creative process and a team. I was under the impression that we were doing some improvised and it was okay, but sometimes the communication is not in lock step with each other. No one told them this was a work. They are under the impression….a week goes by and I flipped out. One day, I waited for Hunter outside of a production meeting once this was actually brought to my attention that he was not okay with it and I explained everything to him. No one told him anything. As far as I know, at that point, we were good, but everyone was under the impression that I lost my mind. I was just trying to do my job. My job, that day, was to make people believe like any other day.”

Kross was then asked if people within the company felt like he was trying to take away from the success of WrestleMania.

“It’s possible they felt that way, but at the end of the day it drove engagement and it generated them money. That promo was not done on my phone or Twitter. It was done on their YouTube channel. I was intending for them to be able to make money off of that. To have something we could use. We’re never pigeonholed with this character I was playing on TV. There are a million different ways to take it. I’m always thinking, ‘How can I arm my creative team or whoever I’m working with, with a million different things to do with Kross’ so you don’t disappear on TV. Here is a great one. It was good for business. Anyone of the opinion that I went into business for myself that day, they’re really not thinking it through. It generated quite a bit of money and interest. People were also like, ‘Can we have more of that?’ People liked it.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Kross said that he was open to killing his character at WWE SummerSlam. Check out his full comments by clicking here.

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