Karrion Kross denied rumors that he is unhappy with his position in the WWE after cutting an intense promo after WrestleMania 41.
Kross played a huge role in the AJ Styles and Logan Paul feud at WrestleMania 41. During their match, Kross stopped Logan Paul’s team from giving him brass knuckles. Then, Kross gave the brass knuckles to AJ Styles, telling him to use them against Paul. But Styles refused and attacked Kross instead. This distraction ended up causing to Styles losing the match.
After AJ Styles lost his match, a frustrated Karrion Kross appeared on the WrestleMania 41 recap show. He delivered an intense promo which sparked reactions from fans, who sensed real frustration in his promo.
In a recent interview with Ariel Helwani, Karrion Kross explained that his intense promo after WrestleMania 41 came from passion and hunger to succeed, not frustration.
“The biggest misconception anyone can take from what I said on WrestleMania was that I’m disgruntled. I’m not, I’m just really, really, really hungry, man. I’m really hungry. All of this is coming from a place of passion. It’s all about the grand scheme of things. People are paying to come watch the greatest show in the world. I want to be a reason on the show where they felt like they got every single cent worth of that. I want to be more than just an Easter egg.”
Karrion Kross on when he learned about WWE WrestleMania 41 involvement
When asked if he watched each night of WrestleMania 41, and Karrion Kross explained how he learned he would have his involvement in AJ Styles and Logan Paul’s match.
“So at the beginning of the day, I was at WWE World, signing autographs and meeting fans, doing the meet and greet stuff. I think either that day or the day before, I did media locally for FOX, which was cool. I always wanted to do local media for FOX for wrestling. So that was a cool thing to do. I get a text, ‘We need you at the building now.’” [laughs]
Read Kross’ full statement here, including how he felt being a small part of WrestleMania 41.
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