Killer Kross opens up about returning to Major League Wrestling.
Killer Kross had a roller coaster run in WWE, having great success on NXT as the last defending champion of the black and gold era, before moving over to Monday Night Raw and never quite finding his footing before being released in November of 2021.
Now, Killer Kross is returning to the ring for Major League wrestling as part of their upcoming SuperFight card in Charlotte, North Carolina on February 26.
Speaking about his return in a new interview with Sean Ross Sapp, Kross explains that he maintained a good relationship with MLW as he has with many that he's worked with through the years. He also says he really enjoyed his time in MLW when he first debuted for the brand.
"I’ve always kept good relations, for the most part, with everyone I’ve worked with," said Kross. "I’ve always been the same guy since the very beginning. I’ve never changed and that’s always the highest compliment I’ve ever gotten from anyone who’s known me over the tenure of my career. I’ve always kept a respectful and appropriate rapport with everyone that I’ve worked with. It was cool to see how many of them circled back to me once I became available to be contacted for work. He was one of the first people and I had an excellent time at MLW," he added.
Killer Kross maintains that he was open about enjoying his first run with the company and says Major League Wrestling lines up with his personal approach of creating unique takes on professional wrestling.
MLW also has their Azteca brand. For Kross, he believes this is a great opportunity for fans of that show to have a spiritual successor to the brand that never got a season
"I liked what was going on when I was there initially," Kross said. "I was very open and public about that. I think, at least from my personal experience, the ability to creatively collaborate with the team to put something unique and interesting on television is so important. Especially now. People now more than ever are looking for an alternative to overly commercialized stuff and I think MLW offers that tenfold. Especially with the revisiting Lucha Underground aspect and stuff like that. People always wanted to see a season five and perhaps this isn’t exactly Lucha Underground, but this is the next best thing in my opinion."
Killer Kross revealed that he had known for a few weeks that he would be returning to wrestling television through MLW, explaining that he has ideas for an expansion of his character as he likes to add layers as his career moves along.
"We had discussed the idea of how we’d like to introduce me back into the programming. I definitely want to expand beyond what I did before, what I did in WWE," Kross revealed. "I’d like to create and add new layers. I have new ideas and concepts. Some of them I’ve been sitting on for one or two years because they just weren’t appropriate for the platform that we were on just previously. They would work perfectly for now. I’d known a couple of weeks.
"So far I like the introduction of the whole entire thing," he adds. "One thing that I thought that is really cool about MLW is, to me as I watch their show, it still feels like it could be an experience when you’re watching it as opposed to something that really feels like it’s on a track that you’re not gonna be getting off, as you said. There’s a lot of ideas and a lot of different creative things that can be introduced. They don’t necessarily feel like they’re married to something like where you know how everything is going to play out. That, I think, is an aspect that’s very difficult to preserve with television in general. Because there’s a lot of things that have to be one way. MLW doesn’t feel that way to me."
The clock is ticking on Major League Wrestling as Killer Kross returns to the brand on February 26 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The upcoming Major League Wrestling show in Charlotte, North Carolina will also feature Ricky Steamboat, the debut of Gangrel, and a World Championship match pitting Alex Hammerstone against Davey Richards.
Fightful has weekly coverage of MLW programming and we will have results of the MLW SuperFight taping after it happens.
