Karrion Kross Brushes Off RAW Loss and Brags About Waking Up Next to Scarlett Bordeaux

Karrion Kross didn’t just lose to AJ Styles on the April 14, 2025 episode of WWE RAW—he left fans with one of the most haunting promos of his career, and all eyes are now on what happens next.

After suffering a defeat in his first singles match on RAW since July 2024, Kross took to social media to unload a powerful post-match message. In his own words, he’s tired, overlooked, and fed up—but he’s also laser-focused on what AJ Styles needs to become heading into WrestleMania 41.

“You know, I got a few reasons to be upset right now,” Kross began. “Last time I had a single match on Monday Night RAW was July, 2024, so I got a shot tonight, first time on Netflix, and I lost. I’m also not on WrestleMania in my home of Las Vegas.”

Despite his disappointment, Kross shifted gears to a more philosophical tone, praising one thing: the glimpse of the old AJ Styles that he saw in the match.

“I got some other things to be happy about. Like tomorrow morning I’m gonna wake up next to a naked Scarlett Bordeaux. I mean, that’s great. This other thing though, no offense, I’m really happy about right now, is it got this sliver of the man that I’ve been trying to pull outta AJ Styles—the AJ you would need to win at WrestleMania and beat Logan Paul.”

Then, the promo took a personal turn as Kross dug deep into Styles’ motivations, calling out the internal guilt AJ may be hiding.

“And it finally dawned on me. I finally get it. Why you’re trying so hard to be this ‘pave the way, show everybody the right way’—this nonsense. It’s because you’re still in your head about what you did to Cody Rhodes—faking your retirement. You think you have to prove to these people that you’re not that guy anymore. You are. You’ll always be that guy.”

Kross didn’t mince words about the nature of change in professional wrestling either.

“We are everything we have ever done in our lives. This whole change thing… change does not mean you un-become something. These people will let it go, ‘cause they just want violence. I don’t know why I’m the only guy who’s figured that out around here.”

And with that, he laid the pressure squarely on Styles’ shoulders for WrestleMania.

“Please, AJ, do what needs to be done tomorrow. Do what needs to be done the next day and the day after that, after that, until you get to Mania and then moving forward. Because you winning at Mania represents so much more than you understand. All of us in the locker room, everything we’ve been through to get here and say we are WWE Superstars—it has to mean something, man.”

“It has to mean something and it’s on you. And if you lose, then maybe we all should have been YouTube stars. It’s on you, AJ. I need you to make me believe I didn’t subject myself to 11 years of this for nothing. You want real, Allen? It’s real now. It’s real time for you to be real at WrestleMania.”

Whether or not Styles will respond is unclear—but Kross just turned AJ’s showdown with Logan Paul into something much deeper than a grudge match. It’s about legacy. It’s about identity. And according to Kross—it’s about the soul of WWE itself.