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Coveted Free Agent Killer Kross Is a Self-Made Man

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Killer Kross Builds His Own Success

With the desert sun as his backdrop, Kevin Kesar contemplated his next move in wrestling.

It was last May, and as his run in Impact Wrestling was coming to an end. He could not shake the belief that there was more he could offer, that what he showed with his former employer would serve merely as his opening act. So Kesar—better known as Killer Kross—sat in his Las Vegas house and made a career-defining decision.