Professional wrestler Karrion Kross has shed light on the rumored hostility backstage between him and his fellow wrestler, Bobby Lashley.
At WrestleMania 40’s second night, a Philadelphia Street Fight saw Lashley and The Street Profits pitted against The Final Testament team, comprised of Kross, Adkam, and Rezar. Lashley discussed his frustration over the past year, during a segment on “The Bump”, before the match.
Lashley admitted, “I get to fight. This whole year, I’ve been handcuffed lately. I’m looking at the main event. There’s 4 guys in the main event. I’ve beaten three of them. Not throwing it out there, just saying. I feel like I’ve been handcuffed a little bit. But this is my opportunity to beat up Kross and his boys and then we’re gonna look at bigger things afterwards.” Lashley departed from WWE recently and is predicted to join AEW soon.
In a recent episode of the “Insight” podcast, Kross spoke about the rumored friction, clarifying, “I hate that I’m saying this. But zero [real heat], it was a work. He knows I feel this way about him… I told him after the match was done, expressed how much I love him, how much I’ve looked up to him, and what an honor it was to work with him… He had an idea to try to blur the lines on the way there, to make it feel as real as possible.”
He continued to explain their ongoing effort to intensify the anticipation for their match, expanding, “There was even one time Bob was like, ‘You know what we should do? All these guys, they like to talk and they like to run to the dirt sheets and stuff… We should get in a fight because all these guys are going to go and call the dirt sheets and tell them that we actually had a fight… But like him and I were, every single week, trying to make this as insane as humanly possible… In retrospect, he wanted me to powerbomb him out of the ring through a table at Mania.”