Scrapped Plans For WWE Worked Shoot Fight Revealed

A worked shoot fight was pitched to take place backstage at a WWE show.

Appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Karrion Kross revealed that Bobby Lashley wanted them to have a worked fight in the hopes that talent backstage would leak the incident to pro wrestling media outlets. The angle would have been done to help generate buzz for the Final Testament vs. Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits feud that led to a match at WrestleMania 40.

After denying there was any heat between himself and Lashley, Kross stated:

"On the way to that Mania match, Bobby and I were constantly trying to find ways to intensify the conflict. Respectfully, we just felt like there were certain things on the way there that felt redundant. And it's not me being salty about anything, it's just him and I wanted to make this as intense and as crazy as possible. He had an idea to try to blur the lines on the way there, to make it feel as real as possible. There was even one time Bob was like, 'You know what we should do? All these guys, they like to talk and they like to run to the dirt sheets and stuff. Dude, we should fight at the beginning of the show. We should get in a fight because all these guys are going to go and call the dirt sheets and tell them that we actually had a fight, and it's going to stir people up into what we're doing on TV.'

"I was like, 'Bob, what? Hold on a sec. First of all, what happens if nobody breaks up the fight?' And he was like, damn, I didn't think about that. I go, Yeah. And also, what happens if we get fired? Because what are we going to do? Hunter's going to pull us aside and be like, what's wrong with you guys? [We say] Oh, it's just a work. And he's like, You guys are bleeding, what are you doing? Then just the whole logical process of having to explain that it was a work and hoping that the office would have been okay with it, that we did that, and then it spilling. I was like let's hold off on this idea. I said, I love crazy stuff like this, but please, let's hold off on that idea."

Karrion Kross remains a part of WWE but Lashley exited the company earlier this year and the former WWE Champion has since signed with All Elite Wrestling. He was initially scheduled to debut at WrestleDream but AEW opted to push back the 48-year-old's appearance.

While Bobby Lashley had plans for a worked shoot, sometimes a worked match turns into a shoot.