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Killer Kross is known as a terror in the ring, maybe even a “killer”.
He left his blood and guts in the squared circle throughout his professional wrestling career and worked his way up to becoming the Major League Wrestling (MLW) World Heavyweight Champion, fending off dozens of other men in Battle Riot VIII in January.
Even though he can be a nightmare for his opponents, he has a heart of gold.
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Major League Wrestling stars Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux enter the ring. (MLW)
Kross signed on for an interview with PK Press Club Digital to talk about MLW’s new partnership with Veeps. During the conversation, Kross’s cat jumped into his lap. Naturally, the next question was about the animal.
He explained how he and his wife, professional wrestler Scarlett Bordeaux, brought the cat into their lives. He said he had been allergic to cats his whole life
“So I’m allergic to cats, even deathly so. My wife and I, about a year and a half ago, noticed there was a kitten at our door,” Kross said. “And every now and then we would see stray cats. Even when we were traveling and stuff, we were in Thailand, there were dogs everywhere. We, I don’t know man, we always felt obligated to feed them. So, this kitten was at our door. Clearly a stray kitten. No collar. You can tell. Everything was messed up.
“And so she put some tuna in for this cat. We’ve done that before. We haven’t seen the cat for about a week or two. The cat comes back and we’re like damn. He still doesn’t have a home, he’s still alive. We started doing it, every time we saw the cat – it wasn’t every day at first – but every time we saw him, we trampled on him. And then he starts bringing in mouse pieces and starts to leave it at the door You know how they say: like, they bring you gifts?… I had to look it up. I didn’t know anything about cats, if I came into contact with a cat, my eyes were closed and I had to go to the hospital.
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Major League Wrestling star Killer Kross makes his way to the ring. (MLW)
Kross said a disastrous situation quickly arose in which they felt they needed to keep the cat as safe as possible – a hurricane.
“And there was a hurricane. We were like, ‘I’d love to bring her into the house, but you understand what happens,’ and she was like, ‘Yeah, I know.’ This thing sat on our doorstep during a hurricane,” he told PK Press Club Digital. “We felt so bad, but my wife bought a house for it. She bought structures and toys like cats that they could put their claws on. She set it up so he could basically live outside the front door so he would be killed by the hurricane. He stayed there. He came into the house and everything. He lived outside our door for about six months.
“Again, I can’t touch this thing. And I’m sitting there one day and I’m making sure it’s comfortable and it’s eating and it starts walking up my leg. So, I decided to pet it – I got hives. Eventually, after a while, I didn’t have hives on my hand anymore. Then one day the thing attacks. It’s bleeding everywhere. We don’t know what that happened.”
Kross said they had to take the cat to a veterinarian and he paid a lot of money to make sure the animal was happy, healthy and comfortable.
“So I paid thousands of dollars to take him to a vet. He let me take him back. He’s a stray, by the way. He was very friendly to us. He wasn’t acting like a stray, which was so strange. So we took him to the vet. We had him tested. No bloodborne pathogens. He didn’t have any illnesses or anything. He paid for his surgery – thousands of dollars,” he said at PK Press Club Digital. “We had to put a cone on his head. We can’t let a stray animal out with a cone on his head. So we gutted a room in our house and put in a whole facility with an automatic cat litter box and everything. We have two dogs – the dogs love the cat.
Professional wrestlers Killer Kross and Scarlett Bordeaux are set to return to Major League Wrestling. (MLW)
“They all slept together, they slept together, they played together. And the dogs would let us know when the cat was at the front door when he was wandering. And every once in a while, we would take the dog out and we would hold the dogs and he would come close to the cat, so they could all be a little distance away. But now the cat lives with us and I don’t have cat allergies anymore. I don’t know what happened. My first time ever.”
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“Killer” may be Kross’s gimmick in the ring, but he’s far from it outside of the ring.
The new season of “MLW Fusion” will debut for free on the global streaming platform Saturday night.
