Freddie Prinze Jr Advised Karrion Kross To Make WWE Return

Killer Kross, who won the NXT Championship twice, was one of the top Superstars in WWE’s developmental brand. His time on the main roster, though, was unimpressive and forgettable. Freddie Prinze Jr. recently revealed that Kross would have landed elsewhere if he hadn’t advised him about a WWE comeback.

This week’s Wrestling With Freddie episode featured Freddie Prinze Jr. talking about a variety of subjects. The former WWE writer discussed Killer Kross’s potential comeback to WWE during that time. Prinze, Jr is starting his own pro wrestling company, and he pegged Kross as his champion, but it was also his advice that assured him that a WWE return was the best move.

So I announced on the first season of this with Ariel Helwani that I was starting a wrestling federation, which I still am, and I’m working hard at it. My champion, and I had spoken with him a lot, was going to be Killer Kross. He was my guy. I was building the whole thing around him. We had kind of worked on the story. We talked about philosophy, talked about his character, his wife’s character, with the caveat of, ‘Hey, you can’t hold your career up to make my thing go.’ So I said, ‘If you get other offers, you need to make a living, go make a living man.

I got a text on Thursday, the day before Smackdown. I get a text that says, ‘Hey, man, I need some advice. Let’s chat.’ So I already know, and I almost wrote him the day before, ‘Hey, with Vince gone, you’re going to get a call from Hunter.’ I literally wrote this text. I said, ‘He’s going to offer you the moon, and if you say no, you’re out of your mind. So don’t trip.’ Then I deleted the whole text, and instead, I just sent him a picture from this storyboard guy that’s doing part of the show for me, so that I can, you know, pitch it properly. I just sent him a picture of some of the storyboard stuff instead because I didn’t want to, like, freak him out.

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So then the very next day, I got this text from him that said, ‘Can we talk? I need some advice.’ We start chatting and he says, ‘I talked to Hunter. They made an offer and it’s real. I think I believe him when he’s telling me what’s going to happen, and you and I need to talk.’ I said, ‘Yeah, brother.’ I told him, ‘I wrote you a text yesterday that I deleted because I knew this was going to happen once Vince left the company.’ So we talked about it. I said, ‘Look, you’d be crazy to chase my dream in place of yours. Your dream was never to be’, I don’t want to say the name of my federation, but, ‘Your dream was never to be the Freddy P champion. It was to be the WWE champion.’ I said, ‘I couldn’t hold you up from that.’

The narrative of Killer Kross is far from over because Freddie Prinze Jr. wants to bring Kross along for his promotion. After being forced to adopt a character he had no desire to adopt, WWE eventually let Kross depart. Kross eventually returned to the independent circuit with his wife Scarlett Bordeaux after being freed.

Following his dismissal from the WWE, Killer Kross’ email exploded with offers. Additionally, Killer Kross had previously established his ring name. We’ll have to wait and see if Kross ultimately joins the actor’s promotion.

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