WWE Lied About Hollywood Transition To Ex-Star?

There is no denying that WWE stars often get a chance to transition to Hollywood. Hulk Hogan, The Rock, John Cena, and many more have found their place on the silver screen. However, that would not have been possible if not for the WWE. 

But now it seems Killer Kross also wanted to follow that path, but WWE had other plans. Speaking to The Wrestling Classic, he revealed,

“I followed up afterwards once the meeting was done and I said, ‘Hey, listen. I’m not looking to leave wrestling. I love wrestling. It’s my first passion. I don’t even know what life would be like without wrestling. But I would be interested in attempting to take on some different acting roles and stuff like that.’ I have a background in theater and such, and I went into all that. I just said, ‘What’s the right way to go about doing this?”

“I’m not looking to transition out of wrestling. I think, as a matter of fact, I could actually do some mainstream stuff in acting, and I could maybe create some new fans and bring them back into wrestling. I was told to follow up in October and I’d be flown into Los Angeles and they’d introduced me to all these people and blah blah blah and I followed up and none of that ever happened.”

“And then I waited a couple more months and I followed up and none of that ever happened. And I said, ‘Well, I’m not dependent on this particular lead. I can pursue this on my own. I just wish that I wasn’t led to believe and told to do this. It’s a sh—y feeling, especially in a business that’s completely based on trust.’”

The Ex-WWE Star On The Future Of The Business

Kross also spoke about the future of the wrestling business as a whole. He said,

“It’s a complicated question if I’m answering honestly. I can give you a headline response, and it would be completely inauthentic to what I actually believe. The problem I’m seeing right now is, you know, wrestling has always been sort of like a reflection, sort of a social commentary of, like, what’s going on socially in the world. It’s always been that way. Like, a lot of what we see in the programming is a reflection of what’s going on in society.

So, to say who right now could carry it into the future, I don’t know what the future is going to look like. So far, I actually don’t like the direction. Sorry, I don’t like the direction that wrestling is going in with cutting down so much time in the program away from the actual wrestling and the stories. Like, if you go to Broadway or you go to theater, you know, you wanna watch the show and you want to be immersed in it, and constantly, like, blasting you with advertisements and, like, even after a match, they’re dropping commercials and advertisements and stuff like that. I don’t like that.

I understand that there’s, like, revenue to be generated, but treating the airtime for wrestling like it’s real estate time for other stuff to generate revenue, I understand the business practice of it, but I don’t like it. So, when you ask me who’s gonna lead us into that, it could be—it could be anybody. What does it matter? You know what I mean? If it’s pure pro wrestling, the pure pro wrestlers will be able to do that.”