Killer Kross On What Concerned Him Ahead Of WWE Main Roster Debut

Ex-WWE Superstar Killer Kross (f.k.a. Karrion Kross) recently spoke with Busted Open Radio about his time with the company. The former NXT Champion lost on his main roster debut to Jeff Hardy. However, he hoped that would have set up a long-time feud.

"I hadn't even lost yet, so to put somebody over for me personally, that's not a big deal. Even on my debut, I was like, 'you know what, this company has been wonderful to me. Whatever they want I'll do it, no problem.' That's the place I was coming from," he said. "To be able to work with Jeff, I've said it before, that's an honor.

"I was just hoping it was going to be a long-term program. I knew Extreme Rules was coming around the corner so I was in the process of being given all this information. I was hoping it was going to be something long-term with Jeff."

When Killer Kross first appeared, he did so without any hype or teases. This is something that brought concerns to him immediately as he felt something was off with the situation.

"Showing up and not getting the vignettes as a total surprise, not letting anybody know weeks before that I was going to be coming," Kross stated. "In the manner that we could have really optimized the tension for this character on NXT going over to Raw, I was concerned about that.

"Something felt off if I can be frank about that. Then when I got the outfit designs in an email. I just knew people were going to look at that and just roll their eyes and be up in arms about it."

The fans instantly knew that the main roster version of the character wasn't working. However, that was the case for Killer Kross as well. He spoke with management about his corners regarding the lack of reactions it was getting.

"I will say, I did at a point, I believe it was the second week of the outfit," he said. "I did speak with management, I did tell them, I said look, 'I am saying this out of professionalism and respect. Based on the reactions from last week, which are measurable through social media and the live reaction as well. This is not being received well.

'So, respectfully, I do believe we should attempt to change course with this before it's too late. Or, we could attempt to develop some sort of narrative when I'm on television where we can attempt to connect what I was doing in NXT vs what I am doing here. Because people don't understand what is going on.' And just to paraphrase, I was just told to, 'stay the course.' Which I thought at the time was crazy. I did speak up, very early, but in a respectful manner."

If you use any quotes from this article, please credit Busted Open Radio with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.