Karrion Kross has put a lot of thought into the current character he’s playing on WWE RAW.
WWE Superstar Karrion Kross was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about the current character that he’s portraying on RAW, Kross said this character is the most repulsive one he’s ever brought to life.
“This rendition of the character that we’re doing right now, for me personally, is the most repulsive to bring to life, because it’s a bit of Sean O’Hare, who was one of my favorites. Also Kevin Sullivan as well, who doesn’t get the love and credit he deserves,” Karrion Kross said. “A lot of what I’m doing with this character is like the opposite of a love letter. It’s kind of a hate letter to all of the terrible things people just kind of say to each other, the way they behave.
“Being a deceptive person is probably the most rotten thing you could possibly be in life, and if you’re looking to create a heel that can play off of anyone and do anything and functionally in a television format, someone who can reward the viewer for watching the show episodically and paying attention to the stories that they’ve told for 10, 20, 30 years, this is the perfect character as a heel.
“Because I can talk about Woods’s past, I can talk about Kofi’s past. And at the same time, I can also bring up vile things that maybe toxic fans have to say about, you know, this guy’s better than the other. I was trying to do this with Dawkins and Montez, and it’s a fine line to walk. But it was funny, there was one thing that a fan had said. I don’t want to say who it was about, because I don’t want to bring it back to life.
“But there was something online a fan said about someone I’d been working with while I’ve been doing this version of the character. I read it, I went, Oh, that’s disgusting. I’m going to use that. I’m going to use that it’s so vile and so untrue that of course when I say this, it’ll actually put the fans on the side of the babyface. Which is ultimately what I’m trying to do. I cannot win people overdoing this. This is the opposite.
“Then I said it, and I just out of curiosity, I couldn’t help myself. I had to go online to see because they’re one of the people that do the thing on Twitter every week. And then he went and said the total opposite. I was like, who’s the psychopath here? This is this guy’s tweet. He said this two weeks ago about him, and he’s pretending he didn’t say it. I was like wow, that’s crazy, I should be this guy in wrestling. I should want to look like a lunatic; I should be this guy.
“But some things that I’ve said to the babyfaces while I’ve been doing this character, I’ve heard people in this business and other businesses kind of saying to each other, and I’m drawing from real places, and I’m just kind of reformatting it to make it become sort of a conversation piece, and it’s an effort to add depth to the people that I’m working with, and for people to say, Oh, I know what he’s trying to do. He’s trying to conquer and divide. This is the dividing part. He wants to weaken them. But he does have a point. There’s a story to build from there, it creates an obstacle for the babyface to overcome in that story.”
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