Karrion Kross Told To Ignore WWE Fan Support

Karrion Kross has revealed he was told by some in WWE to ignore fan support for him as the company wasn’t ready to “fully embrace that.”

Karrion Kross and Scarlett have apparently left WWE after their contracts came to an end on August 10th. However, there are reports suggesting that the pair will be staying with the company.

All of this came months after WWE fans started to fully get behind Kross after he dropped an expletive-laden rant at management after WrestleMania 41. Despite that, WWE didn’t seem keen to fully utilise Karrion Kross, and it seems that was the case after all – at least, according to Kross himself.

Karrion Kross Lays Out WWE’s View Of Growing Support

Speaking in his documentary, “The Killer Part 2”, Karrion Kross explained that he was told to ignore fan support by those in the company:

I remember in the beginning people were saying hey, I wouldn’t take it seriously, it’s not going to last or hey, let’s see if it’s for real when you go out there tonight or if it’s still there when we’re in a different city or a different state. Then when it was still there and it got louder and louder and louder every week, that went away and it was kinda like “Well, we’re not really ready to fully embrace that.”

I was being told by certain people, ‘Don’t acknowledge it,” which felt really wrong because having a connection with the audience, especially one that is like this, this doesn’t just come around for everybody. It wasn’t something that was constructed or thought of. This happened organically through a series of events and I wouldn’t even say it’s something that happened recently this year. This is something that is happening because of what has happened over the last three years.

I don’t feel like we are all collectively going in the direction that the audience would like us to go in. And that part doesn’t feel good.

Later in the documentary, a clip aired of Triple H ignoring WWE fans chanting for Kross and instead thinking they were chanting for Brock Lesnar. Kross noted that you can’t ignore fans while also telling them how important they are in the WWE universe:

You can’t ignore the crowd in this business. You can try. It’s not going to be good in the end. You don’t want to make your audience feel they aren’t a part of this. You can’t tell them they are part of this and they are the universe and they are so heavily involved in every aspect of it and then on a whim tell them certain subsections don’t matter, we can’t do that. That p*sses people off and turns people away.