After WrestleMania 41, Karrion Kross found himself in hot water over a heated promo he cut on the WrestleMania Recap Show, that many within WWE believed was legitimate. According to him, he had made efforts to ensure everyone backstage understood it was part of the show, but the message didn’t reach certain individuals – including some high-ranking executives.
On The Ariel Helwani Show, Kross revealed that he believed he had the green light to add improvisation to his segment, but the clearance never traveled up the chain of command. As a result, some in management thought he had gone rogue. Once he learned that Triple H had taken issue with it, Kross decided to address the matter directly.
He waited for HHH outside a production meeting and explained that the promo was planned as a work, not a shoot. Kross said the misunderstanding stemmed entirely from poor communication, noting that his intention – as with any performance – was to convince the audience, not cause backstage tension.
By the end of the conversation, he believed the air had been cleared.
During the WrestleMania 41 review show, Kross said “f**k you” to the “guy in the suit and tie in the truck.” During his recent YouTube documentary, Kross noted that he wasn’t referring to Triple H here:
“Everybody wanted to know who’s the guy in the truck, the guy in the suit and tie in the truck. Here’s the inside scoop.There was no f**king truck. It was shot on a stationary camera which is why I said the guy in the truck so no one would feel personally attacked.
But the guy in the suit and tie in the truck is a metaphor for the corporate figure that comes into an art sector and sterilizes art for the sake of viewership and monetization, it could be f**king anybody. And it’s not wrestling specific.
It’s in all different lanes of entertainment, television, music. Like we have to find a common ground of preserving the art when we’re going to try to monetize it. And that’s, man, I said so much. I wanted to say so much of what I did and it meant so much on so many other different levels. And that’s what that moment was supposed to be like.
A lot of people thought like, I was talking about Hunter (Triple H). Hunter doesn’t work in the truck, nor would I ever talk to him like that. He was a wrestler. You know what I mean? Like, I was blown away that people drew a conclusion. They drew some super context. That was him. It was a metaphor, you know, and that’s basically what happened and following that a lot of people were pi$$ed.”
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