Killer Kross says he’s had great conversations with Tony Khan.
Shakiel Mahjouri of SHAK Wrestling recently sat down with former NXT Champion Killer Kross. During their near-half-hour conversation, Kross revealed what his relationship with AEW President Tony Khan is like.
“We had a great conversation and we talked for a while. The way he comes off as enthusiastically as he is in interviews, he’s really like that. He was a ball of energy on the phone and I thought that was really cool. I thought that was refreshing because if you talk to most people you work for in a major wrestling company, they’ve been doing this for 30-plus years. You have to imagine they love this, but if you do anything for more than 30 years, you get a little tired of it. Let’s be honest. Even if it’s the job you always wanted, it’s human nature to get tired of it.
So it’s refreshing to talk to somebody who is really, really passionate about what they’re involved with. It’s contagious. I can see how a lot of people that I know work for the company really, really thrive off that. Especially if they’ve worked in other places. They know what I’m talking about. So to have a boss who’s enthusiastic about the ideas that he wants to execute makes you feel good about it. I’m always open for communication with any major company.”
When it comes to gauging fan reactions to himself and Scarlett Bordeaux, Kross says he always relies on his interactions with people in real life versus the reactions they receive on social media.
“Her and I are both very good. There’s the social media optics of people trying to say that somebody is falling out of relevancy or they’re this or that and people get worked up by that. They get scared about that. Then there’s real life. Real life is going to the shows and actually meeting and engaging with real people right in front of you and having those experiences of fans. I gauge everything I’m going to do based on real life interactions with people. Everything online can be manipulated and convoluted and half the time, unfortunately it is. It isn’t all the time, but I will never base the trajectory of my career and everything I’m doing creatively and what I want to do with my life based on online reactions. We were at the mercy of that during lockdowns, which was brutal.
I know the realities of the situation and the last thing I would ever want to do is make a decision based out of fear. Just being afraid that you’re going to fall out of favor. Our fans are still there. We see them all the time. There are people, no matter what, that have an idea of who you are and what you are going to dislike you whether you’re a great person or you are actually a terrible person. They will find ways to convolute everything you’re saying and doing. Try to take away your accomplishments. Her and I don’t live in that place. We don’t make decisions based on that type of stuff.”
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