Karrion Kross Confirms WWE Departure

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12-08-2025

Karrion Kross and his wife, Scarlett, have officially left WWE after weeks of speculation about their contract status.
Over the weekend, WWE moved Karrion Kross and his partner Scarlett to the alumni section of its website. The move was followed by skepticism about the legitimacy of his contract situation. However, Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful later confirmed that Kross, Scarlett, and Ashante Thee Adonis were all legitimately removed from WWE's internal roster on August 10.
In his YouTube channel video called 'My WWE Contract Ends Today', Karrion Kross discussed his WWE departure and post–WrestleMania 41 promo. 'My contract is up August 10th. I'm f*cked. I've been f*cked. Things are weird. Things are not bad, things are just very strange. I feel like the following day after WrestleMania and the Sam Roberts podcast. I literally slipped into like another timeline, like another world. Once it was done, everybody was like, 'Holy sh*t.'
'They're like, 'That was amazing.' I said, 'Thank you. Are we good?' And he goes, 'We are very good. That is nuts. That's the guy.' You know, he was saying to me, 'That's the guy we need.' And I said, 'I agree.' Shook everybody's hands. I said before I left, 'Guys, please make sure everybody knows this was a work.'
Karrion Kross was just creating compelling content for fans
'Yeah. Let them know that I'm not actually mad. I love it here. I'm just doing my job. I have to create compelling things for the audience to believe. And one of the things that is so overlooked with all of this backstage insider stuff wrestling, man you can call this real, fake, whatever you want. What we do, legit, is we turn pain into art.'
Karrion Kross also says he tried to secure a new contract months before his departure. Kross said it's crazy to think he wanted to be anywhere but WWE, and said he remains committed.
'You know, August 10th, it's up. That's another situation that's, like, on top of everything else going on that's confusing and stressful because, like, I expressed interest to renegotiate in early January with WWE. Like, I think it's crazy it's, like, preposterous that anyone would think that I wouldn't want to be here or, like, go somewhere else. And it's nothing against anywhere else, but, like, I'm fully committed. I'm here.'
With him being a free agent, Karrion Kross also confirmed that he is now ready to take bookings for various shows.
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