During his appearance on the latest episode of the The Ariel Helwani Show, former WWE Superstar Karrion Kross discussed his contract situation. Kross said that he was given a new contract offer by WWE, but only had 24-hours to accept it.
Kross stated that he ended up rescinding WWE’s offer, noting that it came down to lack of information, metrics and analytics.
“I got the offer. I wanted to know how they came to the valuation of that offer. Just some information, metrics, analytics, that supported, ‘Hey, this is how we got here.’ When I inquired about that, they weren’t willing to provide that information and told me I had 24 hours to agree to the offer or they would rescind it. The next day, we talked. I asked if they had the information, they don’t. I said, ‘I can’t make an informed decision without the information. I’d like to keep the dialogue open.’ They rescinded the offer. That’s where we’re at. I know how a lot of people feel when they make an exit. I can empathize with everybody’s experience. Every exit experience is different. This isn’t to disparage WWE, but because there are so many convoluted stories going on, and to some degree can affect our livelihood, of what we’re supposed to be doing after. People don’t want to reach out because they’re not sure if they are tampering. The goal has always been to be with WWE. My wife and I still want to be with WWE. I’m at the table for conversations. I did not step out of the conversation. We still want to be there and want to work it out.”
Kross also said that there was not offer to his wife, Scarlett and that he was told once they [WWE] dealt with him, they would then deal with her.
“There was no offer to her. I was told at one point, because I did inquire, ‘After we deal with you, we’ll deal with her.’ I don’t see why we couldn’t have done things the way we did them before where we do the deals together.”
Kross appears at the start of the 2nd hour of the show.
Quotes are courtesy of Fightful.