Karrion Kross never got the chance to stand across the ring from Dave Bautista.
WWE Superstar Karrion Kross was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about the video that recently re-emerged of him calling out Dave Bautista in 2019 at GCW’s Bloodsport 2, Kross explained his intentions behind doing so.
“So it’s crazy how it can either happen immediately, or it can happen over time how people will attach like a crazy context to something that might not totally be accurate,” Karrion Kross said. “So like when I called Dave out, my intention was, first of all, he was in the hotel, we were wrestling, and it was a GCW event.
Kross found out that Bautista was filming Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead in the hotel and wanted to get his attention.
“He was filming a zombie film. Someone told me right before I walked through the curtain that Bautista was here, and I was like, ‘I want to meet him.’ They’re like, ‘No, no, not here, he’s in the building.’ I went, ‘Where? Oh, he’s in the building filming a movie, of course, he’s filming a movie.’ And at that time, I was bummed to hear that he retired, I was a huge fan of his growing up.
“And just even being at the, you know, the smaller level that I was at the time. I love that. Like, I still love this. It’s hard for me to imagine not being in love with this anymore to the point where I would be comfortable and okay to retire. So I was thinking in that context at the time, like, there’s no way he doesn’t love this anymore.
Karrion Kross hoped to lure Dave Bautista back to wrestling
“Maybe he just needs something creative that he would be really interested in. Because that’s all of us. You can hook us back into wrestling when we’re retired. If there’s something you’re genuinely interested to do creatively, and Dave has like a shoot background. He’s like a legit brown belt in jujitsu.
“Yeah, so I go out there, and I do the match with Nick Gage, choke him, get up. And yeah, call Batista out with the intention, hoping that if he really didn’t want to be retired, and he wanted to do something that he’s never done before. That would be in his wheelhouse that people have never seen him do, which would be like the shoot work stuff, I would have been happy.”
When asked if Bautista ever responded, Kross said he doubted it because he never heard anything back.
“I doubt it, but Josh knows him,” Karrion Kross said. “Maybe Josh may have told him. But it was never in a way where it was like, you know, screw Dave Bautista. No. Like you heard the reaction from people they really right away were like, it would be awesome to have Dave Bautista on Bloodsport. It would be awesome. And like for people to see him move, legit. You know what I mean on the ground and free roll and flow with people that I think it would have been awesome.”
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