Bobby Lashley and Karrion Kross have often spoken about each other publicly this week.
First, while appearing on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Kross commented on whether real-life heat was between them, noting that they didn’t. This was after they worked a feud that saw The Final Testament (Karrion Kross, Akam, and Rezar) against Lashley and The Street Profits in a Philadelphia Street Fight at WrestleMania 40.
While doing a virtual signing for K & S WrestleFest, Lashley was asked about Kross, leading to him praising Kross. He also stated that WWE could do more with Kross and that the company is not using him the way it should.
One of Kross’s statements in the Insight interview was that he wanted to do a legitimate backstage fight to make people think they didn’t like each other. However, Lashley thought it was a bad idea and nixed it.
Lashley said during the signing, “There was one time we were starting our feud together. I was like, ‘Man, I think we should just get in a fight.’ Because there’s not too many people that I could actually do that with and Kross has the martial arts background and he has a boxing background, he has a jiu-jitsu background and for us, we were both itching to be a part of something and I was like, ‘Let’s just go and start slugging it out,’ and if people break it up, it’s gonna help out our feud and I think it brings a lot more attention to it because they were putting us together in this feud right before WrestleMania and wasn’t giving us an opportunity to really go after each other. So I was like, ‘Man, this might be the thing to kind of spark the feud and bring a lot more attention to it.’ But I think it just naturally brought some attention to it because I think a lot of people just wanted to see us and they wanted to see him and his group do something so it just kind of went together.”
Lashley left WWE a few months ago and is expected to make his AEW debut any week now.
H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcription
