Killer Kross Reflects On Where He Was After WWE Exit, How He Let It All Go

Killer Kross is in a great place almost a year after his WWE exit, and he recently discussed how he came to terms with the matter. Kross of course exited WWE in August of last year. Kross and Scarlett’s contract expired without being renewed, something he talked at length about at the time.

Flash forward to 10 months later, and Kross says he’s let the frustration go and is in a really good spot. He spoke about the matter in a new appearance on the Ariel Helwani Show, and you can see the highlights below:

On Where He Was Emotionally At After He Left WWE:

“Well, truth be told, it’s what you said. I was crushed. I wasn’t sure how to feel about everything. It’s like, you have this dream as a kid to be somewhere, and you really, really feel like you’re supposed to be there. And you know what’s working and you know what doesn’t, but you’re willing to try to keep making it work. And so, I just didn’t expect how things would pan out.”

On Where He’s At Now:

“I’m so — everything is so good right now. I can’t even be mad or frustrated about how things have happened. I’ve had experiences in my life since August that would have not happened had I stayed. For one, performing in front of my mother. Everyone knows by now, my mother is a cancer survivor. The first time she got to see me perform post-all of the treatments was MLW Battle Riot.

“You know, as a professional wrestler, you want as much time as they will give you in the ring. That night, I had like an hour and a half. That’s like the boyhood dream story. First man into the Battle Riot, last man standing. You win the title, bleeding all over the place. Then there’s mom in the front row, and I can dedicate the performance to her right then and there. It means everything, put the title on my mother’s shoulder. Aside from that, I’ve been to like six new countries this year. I’m visiting new cultures, learning about new places. I mean, it’s almost like — I just let it all go. I let it be what it is and just get present and appreciate the moment.”

On How Long It Took To Get To That Point:

It was ups and downs, man. Whenever I was at a wrestling show, I was good. Because you get in front of the crowd, you do all the meet and greets, you’re there at the beginning of the show. You’re getting all the feedback, people telling you how they feel about what’s going on, how they felt about your performances, what they’re looking forward to seeing you doing in the future. So, like I’m good at the shows. But sometimes during the week, sometimes you’re questioning like, ‘What is this? When is it going to go away? How long is it going to stay good like this?’

“And I’ve had people that even care about me tell me — this is many months ago, they were like, ‘Hey, like don’t burn any bridges. Because you know, this big boom that you have in the independents, it could go away.’ And it hasn’t gone away. It’s actually gotten bigger and better. And we’re going to all these different countries to perform all over the place. Even I was thinking, ‘Oh, surely maybe things would kind of taper off, right?’ Because it does for everybody. But I think my situation to me at least it feels different because of the nature of my exit, and how people were with me and people could see through what was going on.”

On the Support of Fans:

“And a lot of the feedback, like I said, at the meet and greets [are] people expressing frustration, people expressing support. And then there’s a lot of people too that are coming to these shows that have never seen a wrestling show live. They’re casuals that maybe just found wrestling on Netflix. Now they’re coming to see Scarlet and I, or some other people that are on the show. They’re learning about the indies. It’s affordable tickets. They could sit the entire family in the front row. So, it’s so much, dude.”

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