Karrion Kross says a planned match with Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 39 was nixed by Vince McMahon
Shortly after the death of Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt in 2023, Karrion Kross noted that he was slated to work with Bray at WWE WrestleMania 39.
While his wife Scarlett was speaking to Denise Salcedo in a new interview, Kross mentioned off-camera that it was Vince McMahon who nixed the match. Scarlett then commented on what she knew about Vince being involved with WWE again following his “retirement” in the summer of 2022…
“He wasn’t publicly out in the company, but we started talking to different producers, and we were like, this show’s starting to feel really weird. The booking started to feel weird. Things started changing last minute. This is starting to feel like it did before Vince left—it feels exactly the same.
And then a few producers probably told us he’s back. But it was one of those things where people knew but didn’t talk about it because there was no certainty about it. We didn’t see him around or anything at that time.
Just specific people here and there—if you had friends who knew, basically. Not everyone knew this.
You can’t talk about things that you don’t know for sure—things that are just rumors, things like that. You have no proof of it, so there’s no way to really talk about it. You’re just hoping, again, for the best. And I’m like, I’m just going to make whatever they give us look as good as possible, no matter what it is.
But we just felt like the storylines were changing very quickly, and what we were brought back for was not going to happen. It felt like things kind of fell off, but we were just trying to make the best of everything.”