Karrion Kross Explains Bray Wyatt’s Idea For Wade Barrett To Be His Inside Announcer

Karrion Kross and Bo Dallas had both spoken on how Bray Wyatt was slated to work with Kross at some point during his WWE run.

Unfortunately, Wyatt passed on August 24, 2023. He legacy lives on through the Wyatt Sicks, a group led by Bo Dallas, who also plays Uncle Howdy.

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Speaking to Sam Roberts on Not Sam Wrestling, Kross gave more insight into some of Bray's ideas and plans for a larger group.

"He had a lot of ideas. One idea was, he wanted to create a group even bigger than six. He wanted representation of the group on each show. He was asking me to vet some of the people at NXT because he didn’t know who they were. He knew who he liked and he knew who had cool gimmicks and cool creative, but he said, ‘I don’t know these people and I don’t want to invite people who are going to be problematic or marks for themselves.’ He’s asking me to vet people in NXT to create a group for NXT. He wanted me to go to the other show so I could still be produced the same way and not lose lines. He’s a real center man. He was trying to explain to me, ‘If you stand next to me, I’m always going to be the one talking. You have something. I don’t want to stifle that.’ That was one of the ideas of many. He was really into DC's Court of Owls. He wanted to do something in that realm. He had one crazy idea, he wanted Wade Barrett to be an inside commentary guy. One day, Wade was going to get up and Bullhammer somebody, pull open the shirt, and he had whatever the (logo) idea was on the shirt," said Kross.

Barrett has been an announcer on WWE Raw as the Wyatt Sicks (Bo, Joe Gacy, Dexter Lumis, Erick Rowan, & Nikki Cross) have been feuding with The Final Testament (Kross, Akam, Rezar, Scarlett, Paul Ellering) and The Miz. Barret has not wrestled since 2016.

Elsewhere during the interview, Kross commented on how he initially signed with WWE. You can find his full comments by clicking here.

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