Kross's statements were made during his recent appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, where he discussed Triple H's current booking style. Kross and his wife, Scarlett Bordeaux, were initially released by WWE in 2021. However, they were subsequently re-hired by Triple H in 2022, the same year Triple H took control of WWE’s creative.
Explaining his perspective, Kross based his belief on "pattern recognition," noting that continuity failures can impact viewer engagement in episodic entertainment like wrestling.
If I had to guess, I would say that there are people who call things in and he has to make the best of what they want to play out on television and the PLEs. That’s just my guess. I base that on pattern recognition. That’s a thing that has become very prevalent, especially with Gen Z, when it comes to entertainment, if you’re creating something episodic with continuity, when continuity fails, there’s a red light that goes off, people go, ‘What happened here?’ Especially with wrestling.
The former NXT Champion elaborated on his observations, suggesting that Triple H's own booking patterns were previously aligned with audience desires. Kross, speaking as a person who used to work for Triple H, implied that the involvement of "new players" has altered the dynamic, leading to the current perceived lack of complete control.
Now that there’s new players involved, when there’s a failure of continuity and people don’t like it, it removes people from the suspension of disbelief, that entertainment. I don’t think that’s him. He has his own patterns that I think were aligned with what the audience wanted to see, and that’s speaking as a person who used to work for him. And I knew when he could call all of his shots, and I had an idea of when he couldn’t. To me, this looks like a situation where he can’t call all of the shots. And I don’t mean that disrespectfully at all.
Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux remained part of WWE from 2022 until 2025. Their contracts expired in 2025, and they chose not to re-sign a new agreement with the company.
