10 Disastrous WWE Booking Decisions Triple H Has Already Botched

10. Karrion Kross: Main Event Star

The decision was a bad one to begin with, but bringing in Karrion Kross as a rival for Drew McIntyre and a potential opponent for Roman Reigns set the former NXT Champion up to fail in ways less obvious than Vince McMahon's 2021 character assassinations.

No, Kross wasn't in a daft red mask or robbed of his entire aesthetic, but he lacked any kind of agency in his gimmick and any impending success hinged on the quality of the matches above all else.

This isn't supposed to scan as cruel (not to Kross, anyway), but matches aren't really his strong point. Especially not WWE ones. He stole a victory over Drew McIntyre at Extreme Rules that played to silence and the apparent breaking of the space-time continuum in that it somehow only hovered around the 10 minute mark, then lost a cage rematch that 50/50ed the programme but gave the moral victory to 'The Scottish Warrior'.

Starting life as another wrestler's rehab programme marked his cards as an also-ran, as did a middling match with Rey Mysterio after a fun build that cast him as a bully. Mysterio getting injured in the contest didn't help, and a rematch between the two - and this is becoming a theme for Kross - lacked any spark the first encounter might have summoned.