-- Karrion Kross and Scarlett recently appeared on "After the Bell" with Corey Graves and spoke about their returns to WWE, working for Triple H and more. Below are some of the highlights:
Scarlett on returning to WWE
"I was nervous that I wasn't going to feel those same butterflies anymore. Because I did become almost too peaceful and content with not being there. Just going through day by day, I'm like I love wrestling, I don't need it to make me happy because at one point my identity was completely associated with my career, like that was everything about it. I was most worried when I went out there, 'Am I going to feel that?' And oh my God, everything is back like rushing in and it's just as special as the first time I ever had my first match. It was perfect, it was amazing."
"When Hunter called us, he was the best boss we'd ever had so it was a complete no-brainer. It was just like, no other company has ever compared to it. We trust him, we definitely trust him with our characters and storylines so it's absolutely perfect. I always felt respected and heard by Hunter and even more so now."
Kross on returning to WWE
"It's really hard to find the words, man. To want something so bad and then to have to accept that that's not a reality anymore and then to get a call one day, out of the blue, and to be offered everything you've been striving for, it's pretty incredible."
Kross on his prior WWE run
"I can compare it to a comedian being called up to play the biggest stage they've ever been at in their entire lives but then the promoter basically says, 'Hey, you can't hit your best jokes.' It's like you've been scratching and crawling to be in front of the biggest audience your entire career and then you can't hit your best stuff and it was difficult."
Scarlett on her release
"My immediate feeling was I was just straight up pissed. I'm like, 'Dude, we're awesome, we've been killing it.' I know we're great to work with, we get along with everybody and I'm like, 'What are they thinking?' That was my first reaction."
Kross on being released
"You wake up every morning and you chase this WWE thing before you are even there. I always looked at every single show I did before WWE as a dress rehearsal for WWE. When you are put in a position where that is taken from you, as a grown man, you have to let it go. You have to let it go and you need to shift your energy in a different direction that's going to work for you. I had to let it go and as I let that go, I began to study things and get involved with different business and I began to have this fear that I was beginning to enjoy other things a lot more and some of those things could have become contractual and if they did call back, what was I going to do?"
Kross on possibly taking up MMA
"Here's some breaking news, so Daniel Gracie is one of our head instructors for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, he was urging me to relocate to Philadelphia to fight in the UFC. Then on top of that, while that was going on, I was speaking with David Feldman from Bare Knuckled Fighting Championships and I was on the verge of taking a three fight deal."
Kross reveals that he's writing a book
"I wrote a book and it is in the editorial process. It's a memoir of my life and there is obviously a lot of wrestling involved but while I've had all this time to think and be away, I just wish that I had a book like this or I wish I knew somebody who could kind of talk to me about this stuff growing up because I didn't have anybody like that and so I wrote the book with the intention to help people that are in similar situations or if you just want an entertaining read."
