Killer Kross & Scarlett Don’t Think Their Issues With WWE Were Specifically a Triple H Matter

Killer Kross and Scarlett recently reflected on their issues with how their latest WWE run went, noting that they don’t think it’s a specific problem with Triple H. The two exited WWE in August when they could not come to terms on a new contract. Many fans perceived Kross as not being given a chance despite getting over with fans over the past year.

During an appearance on Coach and Bro, Kross was asked by Vince Russo if he thought it was a matter of Triple H not wanting to utilize Kross properly. While he wouldn’t completely discount the possibility, both Kross and Scarlett said they didn’t think it was a problem with any one person. They instead felt it was a matter the corporate structure causing creative issues.

Kross recounted a story about a promo he was given about Bray Wyatt after Wyatt had passed. He said he found it offensive and, when asking around, found that the writers didn’t actually write it and had never seen it. You can see the highlights below:

Kross On the Notion That It’s an Issue With Triple H:

“I would hate to imagine that. Like, just hearing that f**king turns my stomach, pardon my French. Yeah, I would I would hate to think that. Because I don’t know, I I’ve been accused of being a little bit — how would I say, like naive in the sense of going in and wearing your heart on your sleeve for the business. Sometimes that doesn’t work out in the way that you want it to, right?

“It’s — you know, I really do believe in the system of, ‘One guy goes over, two people get over.’ I’m all about trying to put on the best show I possibly can with the amount of time that’s given to me, whether it’s 30 seconds or we’ve got a match out there. If I’m left to perform the way I know people would like to see me perform, it’s always worked out for everybody. It’s always worked out for me. I believe in putting time in. I believe in organically getting over with the audience. I’ve never relied on a machine, so to speak, to position me so I can get over. And with a smart audience now, they can sniff that stuff out… I don’t know if, like I said, that’s an uncomfortable thought. I would hate if that if that really was the case. Like if anyone had felt that way. We give a lot to do what we do, and I do it gladly. But I proceed forward thinking that there’s a fair system in play.”

Scarlett On the Issue Seeming To Be More a TKO Issue:

“And he was very fair in NXT too, which is why the shift — it’s hard to blame on just one person if that’s the case. Especially when everything started to get more strange, it was under the full corporate restructure. Which is why I think there’s bigger players happening and in talks with the creative. And I don’t think it’s just one person, it’s just my opinion.”

Kross On the Matter:

“I don’t think there is too. And that’s another thing that kind of drives people a little bit crazy is like — sometimes when people go to work in a wrestling environment, they don’t really understand or know who the chain of command is. Like, who do you go to speak to? Who makes this decision? Why is that decision being made? Do they feel that these decisions are above having to speak to the talent about it? There’s a lot of mass confusion as to as to how that whole structure works.”

Kross On Being Told To Do a Promo Mentioning Bray Wyatt:

“One time I was given a promo about Bray from someone. And this is after Windham had passed. It was a Saturday night, it was like 10:00 at night. It was it was a text, it wasn’t even — you know what the sides are supposed to look like when they go out. I got this text. It was at the end of a PPV. I read it, I was mortified. Like, I was actually personally offended, being a friend of his. And the person had sent me that, they said, ‘They want you to say it exactly like this.’ Who was ‘they’?

“And so I just took it to the lead writers immediately, because like I said it was disgusting to me. So I said, ‘Hey, did this come from you guys. and was there a discussion about this?’ Because never in my life have I ever been given a promo where I’m told, ‘Say it exactly like this.’ Or not never in my life, but not recently. And they’re like, ‘That never came from us and we never saw that, and you don’t have to listen to that person ever again.’

Kross On His Reaction To the Situation:

“And it’s like, ‘Wow, that’s insane.’ Like, my friend is no longer with us. There was not even a discussion about this, and you’re sending this to me saying it’s — you’re insinuating that it’s gone through a chain of command, it never did. I don’t know. Like, imagine like me going on TV saying that. Not talking to Jojo and she hears something like that, or the rest of his family?’

“I know that there is an idea out there that everything goes through this one person… There there’s weird gaps sometimes. I’m sure they’d like it to be that way. But there’s there’s weird gaps.”

Scarlett On Why She Doesn’t Buy That It’s A Triple H Issue:

“We know what Triple H is like when he’s great to work with, and we had years of that. So that’s why it’s hard to be like, ‘Oh, all of a sudden he decided to be the wrestler, and there was some sort of competition thing going on.’ Because he was really, really, really great to work with in NXT.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Coach & Bro with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.