Karrion Kross Reveals the Motive Behind His Pre-WWE Challenge to Dave Batista

Karrion Kross has been given some great opportunities in WWE. At this point, he is still a SmackDown Superstar, and you never know how Triple H will use him next. That being said, not every big match has been able to come together for the former NXT Champion.

Karrion Kross never had the opportunity to face Dave Bautista in the wrestling ring. During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Karrion Kross discussed a video from 2019 in which he called out Dave Bautista at GCW’s Bloodsport 2.

Karrion Kross explained the motive behind his actions, mentioning that he had learned Bautista was staying in the same hotel while filming Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and wanted to catch his attention.

“So it’s crazy how it can either happen immediately, or it can happen over time how people will attach like a crazy context to something that might not totally be accurate. So like when I called Dave out, my intention was, first of all, he was in the hotel, we were wrestling, and it was a GCW event.”

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“And just even being at the, you know, the smaller level that I was at the time. I love that. Like, I still love this. It’s hard for me to imagine not being in love with this anymore to the point where I would be comfortable and okay to retire. So I was thinking in that context at the time, like, there’s no way he doesn’t love this anymore.”

Karrion Kross went on to explain that he never heard back from Batista. So, it’s doubtful that he will hear anything at this point. It doesn’t appear that Karrion Kross is holding much of a candle for that happening.

Batista is a very creative person, and a good story drives him. Karrion Kross also went on to say that may also be a factor in The Animal’s intentions.

“I doubt it, but Josh knows him. Maybe Josh may have told him. But it was never in a way where it was like, you know, screw Dave Bautista. No. Like you heard the reaction from people, they really right away were like, it would be awesome to have Dave Bautista on Bloodsport. It would be awesome. And like for people to see him move, legit. You know what I mean on the ground and free roll and flow with people that I think it would have been awesome.”

“And just even being at the, you know, the smaller level that I was at the time. I love that. Like, I still love this. It’s hard for me to imagine not being in love with this anymore, to the point where I would be comfortable and okay to retire. So I was thinking in that context at the time, like, there’s no way he doesn’t love this anymore.”

“Maybe he just needs something creative that he would be really interested in. Because that’s all of us. You can hook us back into wrestling when we’re retired. If there’s something you’re genuinely interested to do creatively, and Dave has like a shoot background. He’s like a legit brown belt in jujitsu.”

“Yeah, so I go out there, and I do the match with Nick Gage, choke him, get up. And yeah, call Batista out with the intention, hoping that if he really didn’t want to be retired, and he wanted to do something that he’s never done before. That would be in his wheelhouse that people have never seen him do, which would be like the shoot work stuff, I would have been happy.”

Ringside News exclusively reported that WWE is planning push for Karrion Kross. There were also several WrestleMania ideas for Bray Wyatt, and Kross was considered to be a part of that, but sadly, Bray Wyatt never returned to the ring before his tragic passing.

We will have to see what’s next for Karrion Kross. Odds are, he won’t be mixing it up with Batista, but there are a lot of big matches in his future if he keeps up the hard work.

What’s your take on this challenge from Karrion Kross? Are you bummed this match never happened with Batista? Let us know what you think about things in the comments section!