Karrion Kross felt that WWE's communication regarding his and Scarlett's contract negotiations was confusing and ultimately disregarded his professional accomplishments.

“Nothing I've done over the last 3 years is relevant to the conversation. The book that they're making money off of, my life story is irrelevant to the conversation. like and you're asking me to agree to a figure with a statement like that attached to it, anybody with any sort of like dignity or self”

Scarlett felt that the WWE management's handling of her contract negotiations was misogynistic because she was treated as having no value independent of Karrion Kross.

“I do feel like if he agreed within the 24 hours that they would have offered me something, would it have been the same amount as it was before? Would it have been less? I don't know. Um, but all in all, it felt like a massive, massive red flag and I did feel like it did come off a bit misogynistic b”