10 Main Event Wrestling Gimmicks That NOBODY Liked
6. Karrion Kross
This one is about to get tested, since Karrion Kross has made a shocking return to Triple H's new WWE, but he might well have been the least over major NXT act since Bo Dallas - and at least there, Bo was repackaged as a deluded Kurt Angle-adjacent babyface when 'Papa H' realised that he was a bust.
He might fare better on the main roster, but this will require significant work. Or the hairdryer arena effect mp3, one of the two.
Ratings fells drastically with Kross on top of "black and gold's" mewling death throes. He wasn't the super worker that hardcore NXT fans gravitated towards, and nor was he particularly good at playing the hoss destroyer. He wasn't clinical, graceful in his movements; his work looked stilted and, when tasked with driving elbows into the back of his opponent's necks, weak. Almost a parody of an intense performer, he faked an aura that only works when it is organic. With Kross on top, NXT developed a new, suboptimal identity; no longer the acclaimed, state-of-the-art alternative, it was a Triple H vanity project. Is that what the main roster is now?
Karrion's run, and how long it lasts, will determine the answer.