Karrion Kross Confirms WWE Contract Expiration; Says He Wanted To Renegotiate In January, Felt SummerSlam Might Be His Last Match

On August 10th, the WWE contracts of Karrion Kross and Scarlett expired. They were moved to the alumni section of the WWE website, indicating they had departed WWE.

In part two of “The Killer” documentary, Kross addresses his contract status and documents his journey to WWE SummerSlam where he faced Sami Zayn.

“My contract is up August 10th,” Kross stated in the vlog.

Asked how he was feeling, Kross said, “I’m fucked. I’ve been fucked. Things are weird. 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, into another world.”

Later in the documentary, Kross opened up regarding contract negotiations and his desire to stay in WWE.

“August 10th it’s up. That’s another situation where it’s like, on top of everything else that’s going on, that’s confusing and stressful because I expressed interest to renegotiate in early January with WWE. I think it’s crazy, it’s preposterous for anyone to think that I wouldn’t want to be here or go somewhere else. It’s nothing against anywhere else, but I’m fully committed. I’m here. There isn’t a world that exist where I don’t think I ever made that so entirely clear. Maybe it’s the general nature of people where they think, in all things, where something is not working out they’ll go somewhere else. I’m really not like that. I will bang my head against the pavement until the sidewalk breaks and we get to the basement. It’s just the way I am. It’s frustrating because you express your interest to stay and be here and do things. I’m not going to beg. I’ve already been clear. Many months have gone by and we never had a single conversation about it until recently, and I don’t even feel like the conversation I had recently was an actual serious one. The conversation made me really angry because I didn’t feel like it was a real conversation. Someone had contacted me, and we briefly discussed, it was a very short conversation, and the conversation was done. There wasn’t really anything that was discussed of real substance. It didn’t make me angry or upset, it just profoundly disappointed me because I think about this business probably differently than the person I was speaking to because of the nature of what I do. When I look around at other people that do what I do, some of them have broken their necks, they sacrifice a lot under the guise of being appreciated and rewarded fairly. Some of them are no longer here as a result of the life that they lived through the abuse that we subject ourselves in performing. That’s on us, that’s not on anybody else, but there is a toll that we all pay to do this, and we know that,” he said.

Backstage at SummerSlam, ahead of his match against Zayn, Kross said he felt weird because “this might be the last one.” He said he was going to give it everything he got. “If this is it, I’m really going to miss it.

After a clip played from an interview earlier in the week of Kross stating that he hopes to still be with WWE, Kross said, “I try to be delicate while also being honest. I get questions like this all the time and i’m not really sure how to go about it because I don’t want anybody to feel slighted because I don’t think it’s malicious, but sometimes I’m really lost and very confused on why we’re not leaning into things that make sense and are clearly working and are beenficial for all parties. I’m not in control of those decisions. The only thing I can be in control of is doing the best I can with what I’m given. It’s probably the hardest part of the gig when you know you can give more and they tell you, ‘Don’t home run. Hit that to the outfield and run to second. Make sure you stop on second. Do not run home.’ One day, you don’t get the home run, but you run far enough to get past second and you do run home. You’re on the court playing basketball. They tell you to pass, but you have a three-point shot right there. We’re all on the same team and trying to win the game. You shoot and get the three points. They’re mad at you, why? Why are they mad about the extra three points? They wanted the other guy to shoot it? What’s going on here?”

Throughout the documentary, Kross stated that he wanted to remain in WWE, speaking to the camera and to fans at meet and greet events.

“What I would like to happen, I would love to stay with WWE. I would love, ideally, to finish my career there, I really would. I don’t know what’s going to happen though,” he said.

Kross is currently a free agent.

Fightful Select has more details regarding his departure.

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