12/29/2023 0 Comments Lone wolf bronson wrestlingNow, to be fair I imagine a lot of this was because they wanted to give him a crowd when he won it, but it made for a strange time where everybody knew in kayfabe who the champion was supposed to be (Kross) but the booking team seemed to want to hold it off him because they wanted the champion that would keep the loyal fan from going over to Cody and co. Instead, not only did he return to NXT, but he dawdled without the title for four months. And (perversely) fate gave the perfect opportunity to do this! Because although there was a method in the way that Kross was booked up to his match with Lee at TakeOver 30, but when he was laid up with injury they should have pulled the trigger on him and got him on the main roster! Kross didn't feel like he was a) being passed the torch by a guy leaving for pastures new, or b) was really showing his skills to the NXT crowd.Īll of this could have been deliberate of course to create a character that could be smashed over to appeal to a certain Head Honcho when he would be called up to the main roster. None of his matches before his NXT champion match lasted 15 minutes and only one lasted more that 10. Kross on the other hand squashed up and comers like Bronson Reed and Leon Ruff- guys who were there for the long haul, as well as NXT stalwart Tommaso Ciampa. Major indie/loved talent (Joe, Nakamura, Roode, Balor, etc.) would come in and cut a swathe through 'established' talent, while putting on stunning matches- most of which may be moving on to the main roster (Nakamura's debut match against Zayn is essentially the template for this). Y'see NXT circa 2018-19 worked on a tried a tested formula. I say all this not to trivialise his main roster clusterfuck but rather to contextualise it and point out that the guy was not the seeming slam dunk that people thought a Keith Lee or a Bray Wyatt seemed to be when they were called up (at least to the NXT faithful). And all the repercussions that came with it. NXT had essential become the younger brother of the school bully who no one wanted to be friends with.Īnd that’s the situation that Karrion Kross found himself in. Particularly when up against a promotion that had great independent talent AS WELL as a bunch of workers who wanted nothing more than to flip the bird to WWE (all who floundered, it must be said ON THE MAIN ROSTER, NOT NXT). However, when it had to suddenly measure up with ratings metrics against the now Bischoff-like obsessed McMahon, NXT could no longer have the same luxury. And when it was on the Network Hunter could probably say that it was a way to bring in subscribers to showcase Indy talent. For all of it’s great points NXT was a essentially a hermetic promotion for most of its existence- being watched on the Network. NXT was not so much about the future generation of workers, but rather what Triple H saw as the future of WWE.Īnd it was going fine! Til an interloper stepped into the ring.ĭynamite’s decision to line up against NXT was a shrewd one for several reasons. Instead of being mildly ashamed of the ‘marks’, NXT embraced them, using WWE production quality to tell great matches and let Indy stars show what made them different and compelling while at the same time finding lesser known names and giving them stories to make people care. Rather it was a promotion that invoked the ethos of where WWE should go. NXT during this period was not the antithesis of main roster WWE, as many would claim. And you had the other one, run by his son-in-law. The main roster one, where Vince had his way and he "makes movies" with the odd great wrestling match butting in. You see, from 2015 to 2018, you essentially had TWO WWE’s. Some may say that this one is a bit recent to call Historical (or even Significant, for that matter…) but to me the saga of poor Karrion sums up the massive issues that WWE is now reckoning with. Please note that the Eric Young article will happen but I'm still trying to get it right, so in the mean time I thought I'd go with something more on topic.
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