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On August 10th, the WWE contracts of Karrion Kross and Scarlett expired. They were moved to the alumni section of the WWE website, indicating they had departed WWE.<\/p>\n

In part two of \u201cThe Killer\u201d documentary<\/a>, Kross addresses his contract status and documents his journey to WWE SummerSlam where he faced Sami Zayn.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy contract is up August 10th,\u201d<\/strong> Kross stated in the vlog.<\/p>\n

Asked how he was feeling, Kross said, \u201cI\u2019m fucked. I\u2019ve been fucked. Things are weird. Things are not bad, things are just very strange. I feel like, the following day after WrestleMania and the Sam Roberts podcast, I literally slipped into another timeline, into another world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Later in the documentary, Kross opened up regarding contract negotiations and his desire to stay in WWE.<\/p>\n

\u201cAugust 10th it\u2019s up. That\u2019s another situation where it\u2019s like, on top of everything else that\u2019s going on, that\u2019s confusing and stressful because I expressed interest to renegotiate in early January with WWE. I think it\u2019s crazy, it\u2019s preposterous for anyone to think that I wouldn\u2019t want to be here or go somewhere else. It\u2019s nothing against anywhere else, but I\u2019m fully committed. I\u2019m here. There isn\u2019t a world that exist where I don\u2019t think I ever made that so entirely clear. Maybe it\u2019s the general nature of people where they think, in all things, where something is not working out they\u2019ll go somewhere else. I\u2019m really not like that. I will bang my head against the pavement until the sidewalk breaks and we get to the basement. It\u2019s just the way I am. It\u2019s frustrating because you express your interest to stay and be here and do things. I\u2019m not going to beg. I\u2019ve already been clear. Many months have gone by and we never had a single conversation about it until recently, and I don\u2019t even feel like the conversation I had recently was an actual serious one. The conversation made me really angry because I didn\u2019t feel like it was a real conversation. Someone had contacted me, and we briefly discussed, it was a very short conversation, and the conversation was done. There wasn\u2019t really anything that was discussed of real substance. It didn\u2019t make me angry or upset, it just profoundly disappointed me because I think about this business probably differently than the person I was speaking to because of the nature of what I do. When I look around at other people that do what I do, some of them have broken their necks, they sacrifice a lot under the guise of being appreciated and rewarded fairly. Some of them are no longer here as a result of the life that they lived through the abuse that we subject ourselves in performing. That\u2019s on us, that\u2019s not on anybody else, but there is a toll that we all pay to do this, and we know that,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n

Backstage at SummerSlam, ahead of his match against Zayn, Kross said he felt weird because \u201cthis might be the last one.\u201d He said he was going to give it everything he got. \u201cIf this is it, I\u2019m really going to miss it.<\/p>\n

After a clip played from an interview earlier<\/a> in the week of Kross stating that he hopes to still be with WWE, Kross said, \u201cI try to be delicate while also being honest. I get questions like this all the time and i\u2019m not really sure how to go about it because I don\u2019t want anybody to feel slighted because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s malicious, but sometimes I\u2019m really lost and very confused on why we\u2019re not leaning into things that make sense and are clearly working and are beenficial for all parties. I\u2019m not in control of those decisions. The only thing I can be in control of is doing the best I can with what I\u2019m given. It\u2019s probably the hardest part of the gig when you know you can give more and they tell you, \u2018Don\u2019t home run. Hit that to the outfield and run to second. Make sure you stop on second. Do not run home.\u2019 One day, you don\u2019t get the home run, but you run far enough to get past second and you do run home. You\u2019re on the court playing basketball. They tell you to pass, but you have a three-point shot right there. We\u2019re all on the same team and trying to win the game. You shoot and get the three points. They\u2019re mad at you, why? Why are they mad about the extra three points? They wanted the other guy to shoot it? What\u2019s going on here?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout the documentary, Kross stated that he wanted to remain in WWE, speaking to the camera and to fans at meet and greet events.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I would like to happen, I would love to stay with WWE. I would love, ideally, to finish my career there, I really would. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen though,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n

Kross is currently a free agent.<\/p>\n

Fightful Select has more details regarding his departure.<\/p>\n

If you use any of the quotes above, please credit and link to the original source with a h\/t and link back to Fightful for the transcription.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 10th, the WWE contracts of Karrion Kross and Scarlett expired. They were moved to the alumni…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,72060,67,132,68,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-136056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-karrion-kross","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008236724056872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}