Karrion Kross slams overcommercialization of wrestling, says airtime treated ‘like real estate’

Since TKO took control of WWE, programming for the promotion has been flooded with constant advertisements, from incessant commercial breaks to corporate logos being plastered on nearly every conceivable surface. AEW, TNA, and other companies certainly aren’t immune to this tendency either. Killer Kross, better known as Karrion Kross to WWE fans, recently spoke out against this excessive branding, saying he doesn’t “like the direction that wrestling is going in with cutting down so much time in the program away from the actual wrestling and stories.” Kross, the current MLW World Champion, made these remarks during a Thursday (September 24) appearance on 11Alive, an NBC affiliate in Atlanta, to promote an MLW event on October 3. He got on the topic after reporter Joe Ripley asked him “who’s somebody you look at today that you think can take the torch and run with it to lead pro wrestling into the future?” “It’s a complicated question, if I’m answering honestly. I can give you a headli