10 Most Mind-Boggling Releases WWE Just Announced

5. Karrion Kross

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Oh, now we’re into the really big head-scratchers on this list.

WWE cut Karrion Kross off at the knees the moment he debuted on Raw, then made it worse when they dressed him up like the kid brother of Demolition. But the company kept tweaking and repackaging him, airing a series of vignettes where Kross seemed to embody Sean O’Haire’s old “devil’s advocate” character. As long as WWE kept trying, that meant they were invested in him, right?

Wrong.

Kross’ release (along with his fiancée Scarlett) ends a months-long, breathtaking screwup of epic proportions, as NXT spent more than a year building an entire package with the pair – a cinematic entrance, wonderful presentation – and Vince McMahon and company stripped it all away, separating Kross and Scarlett, ditching the mesmerizing entrance and then having him lose his debut match.

His release is still astounding given that WWE was in the midst of repackaging him.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.