Karrion Kross Was Told to Cut “Disgusting” Promo About Bray Wyatt After His Passing

Karrion Kross dealt with a lot of creative mismanagement in WWE and now Kross has revealed how someone in WWE told him to cut a very offensive promo about Bray Wyatt after his passing.

While speaking on Coach and Bro, Karrion Kross explained that in WWE, a lot of confusion happens because people don’t always know who is actually in charge of decisions. He said sometimes wrestlers are told that an idea “came from the top,” but later they find out it didn’t. This makes it hard to know who to talk to or who is responsible.

“That’s another thing that kind of drives people a little bit crazy — sometimes when you go to work in a wrestling environment, you don’t actually know who the chain of command is. Like, who do you talk to? Who makes the decision? Why is that decision being made? Do they feel those decisions are above having to speak to the talent about it? There’s a lot of confusion about how that whole structure works. You’ll be told something came from the top when it didn’t, and someone just wanted their idea approved. Then you talk to the person at the top and they’re like, ‘What are you talking about?’”

Kross shared an example where he received a promo about Bray Wyatt. It came late at night by text message, not in the usual format. The message told him to deliver it exactly as written. As a close friend of Bray Wyatt, he was upset and offended by the content.

Kross immediately brought it to the lead writers to ask if it had been approved. They told him it had never been discussed, they had never seen it, and that he did not need to take direction from the person who sent it.

“One time I was given a promo about Bray, and this was after Windham had passed. It was a Saturday night, 10 PM, just a text message — not even the proper format we were supposed to get. I read it and I was mortified. I was personally offended as his friend. The person who sent it said, ‘They want you to say it exactly like this.’ And I said, ‘Who’s they?’

I brought it to the lead writers immediately because it was disgusting to me. It was written poorly too. I asked, ‘Did this come from you guys? Was there a discussion?’ Because I’ve never been told recently to say something word-for-word like that. And the writers said, ‘That never came from us. We never saw that. And you don’t have to listen to that person ever again.’”

The experience showed him how easily creative instructions could be misrepresented inside the system. Something could be passed along as if it were official, without anyone higher up actually being aware of it.

Kross noted just how harmful that could have been: not only to him, but to Bray’s family and memory, if he had cut that promo on television.

“That was insane. My friend is no longer here, and there wasn’t even a conversation about this. Someone just tried to push it through like it was official when it wasn’t. Imagine me going on TV saying that, and then his family hears it. So, when people say everything goes through one person and everyone’s on the same page — no. There are weird gaps sometimes. I’m sure they’d like it to be streamlined, but there are definitely gaps.”

Kross’ situation actually shows just how messy and confusing the creative process in big wrestling companies can be. Sometimes wrestlers are pushed to say or do things they don’t feel right about, and the communication behind the scenes isn’t always clear. Regardless, fans are glad Kross never had to cut an offensive promo on Bray Wyatt in the end.

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