The conversations regarding Karrion Kross’ exit continue.
While the hype over his exit has died down a bit, some people have discussed some of the things that Kross said in the Ariel Helwani interview. One of those things is the way TKO tried to make a new deal with Kross. The former WWE star claimed that the company gave him 24 hours to sign a new deal, but Kross wanted some more information about how they came to the offer.
"I got the offer," Kross said. "I wanted to know how they came to the valuation of that offer. I just wanted, you know, some information, some metrics, some analytics that support, 'Hey, this is how we got here.'"
When he requested additional metrics to make an informed decision, they rescinded the offer immediately.
The man formerly known as Baron Corbin chimed in about that aspect. Apparently, WWE has been doing this practice for quite some time. Bishop (aka Corbin) said on Jonathan Coachman’s Off The Ropes show that the company stopped bringing measurables to the table because someone else.
“They have no answer to why you are paid what you are paid. For a brief period, they brought measurables to the table, ‘Well, these are your social media numbers, these are your merch numbers, these are your interaction numbers.’ I know somebody on the roster who said, ‘Well, these don’t look right to me.’ They had someone do some serious digging and they countered everything that was being presented to them with facts and then they got a way better contract. That was the last time that they brought those things to the table.”
There are also several things that WWE would do to devalue their next contract. One of the notorious things that the company did over the years was consistently bury a wrestler to lower there value. But Corbin states that WWE would also take wrestlers off television to devalue them talent his/her contract ends.
“When you get closer to your contract ending, ‘Hey, I’m six months from my contract being up and I’m now I’m not on TV.’ It’s not a coincidence. It’s written that way. ‘Well, we don’t have much for you.’ So now, when they present you the contract, they go, ‘Well, you haven’t been on TV in two months.’ Yeah, but I was two and half years prior to this. So, they lowball you. Like, it’s a business. I get it, it is what it is. It’s the nature of the beast.”
That’s the key word about WWE, it’s a business. Obviously, this is a he said thing as there’s no proof that the former WWE star is telling the truth about WWE’s shady practices, but we’ve heard about the underhanded tactics that the company has pulled throughout the years, so it wouldn’t be shocking if this was true.