Killer Kross is Here
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What motivated Killer Kross to leave WWE and pursue the indie wrestling scene?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGrecka. On today's episode, myself and Nick Nemeth talk to Killer Cross and his journey now that he's no longer with the WWE and now killing it on the indie scene. We dive right in right now on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. Friend of the show. So and is absolutely killing it right now. No pun intended. Killer Cross joins us here on Busted Open. Sir, how are you? And thank you so much for the time.
I'm doing very good, man. How are you?
Dude, I'm great and Like talk about this whirlwind, the book being released, uh, Life is Fighting, which everybody was talking about. Amazing emotional book. Fantastic job by the way. I don't know if we had the chance to really talk about it, but gut-wrenching, fantastic emotional journey that you discuss in your book. And speaking of that, I wanna talk about something you just did recently for ACW this past weekend, but Let me just say I ask you, how's life?
Life is very good, man. Life is very good. I I I feel like maybe I've said this, well, I know I've said it a lot. I don't know if I've said it publicly, but like my mom still being with us and my mom still being healthy is like we all feel like we just won the lottery. So that alone is is amazing. A year ago we didn't know what was going on. Um she's a cancer survivor and um she's completely cancer free. She finished all of her treatments. So that alone is amazing. A aside from all that, professionally, everything Everything is wonderful. We're in we're in two or three different major cities every single weekend. We're in different countries. Um, I just got to wrestle in Romania for the first time. I won a championship there.
So I'm representing the Eastern European market. I'm gonna try to help build the market there. There's a huge fan base there.
How does Killer Kross describe the emotional impact of his new book *Life is Fighting*?
Um but honestly the the the time away from um, major companies and just being in the markets independently. It's been an invaluable earning experience. Like I've learned so much about Everything on ground level and I got nothing but good things to say, man. No complaints.
Let's let's not can we not gloss over Romania a little bit? Because uh everyone always asks me, like, what's your favorite place to go? And I go, Well, a bunch of times in life, uh you go in and out and you see the gym and the airport and you're not in into another city. That's one of the times WWE sent me there and I was there for four days to do PR and media, and it's nonstop, but I actually got to see this like Bucharest Romania. I had to see downtown all their structures like it It's beautiful. D what was the experience like being in Romania?
Beautiful country. We went and saw we actually, you know, we were in Transylvania. So now Yes
that was my follow-up. Like did you see the signs? Because I every time you went somewhere's a sign, Transylvania, this many I'm like, what?
Yes. So like so many people didn't know it was a real place. I'm a huge history nerd. So I know my geography. I know the whole history of the Ottoman Empire and Romania and all that stuff, right? With Vlad Seppish, the story of Dracula being based on a real character, Vlad Dracul. We went to the castle. Um, of course we filmed uh a paranormal investigation episode there. My wife couldn't help herself. She had to uh you know. And um it was awesome. The food there was amazing. Everybody was cool. People speak multiple languages. And believe it or not, for anyone who's listening, there's a massive, uh, very strong wrestling fan base there. And they remembered that show, by the way, that you're that you were talking about.
They were they're still talking about it. They're waiting for, you know, companies to come
back. Oh man. That's beautiful. Well, that we're let's we'll work on it.
What was Killer Kross’s experience wrestling and winning a championship in Romania?
We'll get there, damn it. Yes.
Yeah, and and what and listen, we've we've talked about this a hundred times on this show. Nick, obviously you know this better than anybody about life after WWE. Like WWE is definitely the biggest company, you can make an impact there. But wrestling is so strong right net right now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What motivated Killer Kross to leave WWE and pursue the indie wrestling scene?
0:00–1:47
2
How does Killer Kross describe the emotional impact of his new book *Life is Fighting*?
1:47–3:30
3
What was Killer Kross’s experience wrestling and winning a championship in Romania?
3:30–6:35
4
Why was the ACW championship match such a ‘full‑circle’ moment for Killer Kross?
6:35–10:58
5
How does Killer Kross define authentic connection with wrestling fans?
10:58–14:38
6
What concerns does the panel raise about big‑company wrestling becoming too corporate?
14:38–18:18
7
How have meet‑and‑greets and conventions changed for independent wrestlers?
18:18–20:09
8
What lessons did Killer Kross learn from writing his book and sharing his personal story?
20:09–20:19