Killer Kross wanted to tap back into the Attitude Era for one gimmick he pitched during his WWE run.
In an interview with interview with Steve Fall of NBC Sports Boston, Killer Kross spoke about his interactions with the WWE writing team and how it was a good experience for him overall.
“All of the writers that I dealt with loved them. I know that writers get completely skinned and like decapitated and delimbed from wrestlers, saying that like, ‘Oh, the writers suck, they’re terrible.’ I didn’t have any issues with any of the writers that I ever worked with. I loved all of them. I got to know them personally and professionally. The problem was that all of the ideas, it’s crazy thinking back to it, the problem was that all of the ideas that we would come up together, whether they awesome ideas for me, or they would ask me about my own ideas,” Kross explained, “they all have to go through one person. And so if that one person, if those ideas don’t resonate to them, they don’t make sense, or they’re just not in the realm of how they particularly see things going and entertaining people, then they’re just gonna go out the window.
Kross then said that one idea he had was to revive the Corporate Ministry, the Attitude Era stable fronted by The Undertaker and (later the “Higher Power”) Vince McMahon.
“And so yeah, I had ideas about bringing back the Corporate Ministry. It was my one of the final ideas that I had. I had a series of writers on board for that, they thought it was a very good idea. And I think I brought it up, it doesn’t matter who I brought it up to at this point. I had a bunch of people that I thought would be perfect for it, and we were talking about creating potentially a podium and some other props and stuff. They’ve gone to other people, which is fine. They weren’t my ideas anyway. So the props, they’ve been given to other people and stuff like that. It’s really cool how it’s coming off on TV.
“I had some ideas and I thought pitching those ideas would be cool because there’s some nostalgia to it. You know, with all these crazy conspiracy theories that are always going around about esoteric businesses and stuff like that, and cults, and evil companies and stuff like that. I thought there would be a tasteful way to fictionalize that type of stuff and put it back on TV with a nostalgic twist. And the only people that I had not got a blessing from to do it would be like Taker and Vince, talking to them about it. Because I think I would have to have, of course, I would want them involved with it. They were like the two evil guys that were from that. So I thought that would have been cool to revisit a concept like that. One of many ideas that I had.”
Kross then said that the strange part was that some of the writers would ask if he was open to working with Scarlett again, which is something he was always open to doing.
“But funny enough, most of the writers would come up to me and ask me like hey, we’re just curious. This whole thing you’re doing, it’s fine, but how would you feel about reprising some of the things you used to do in NXT with Scarlett? Would you wanna do something like that? I would be like yeah, I definitely would. That’s crazy that you’re asking me, like where are these ideas that you guys are giving me coming from? And it was like not everyone was on the same page with it. People really actually wanted me to go back and do the things that I was doing in NXT, which I always wanted to do. I’m a very big believer in preserving continuity with wrestling. Because if you don’t preserve continuity, then everything feels like it’s kind of for nothing, right? You want these things to feel like it’s leaning somewhere narratively, in a direction of storytelling.”
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