10 Reasons Not To Lose Faith In NXT

4. UBER BABYFACE KARRION KROSS

Karrion Kross made his NXT debut on 15 April of this year, viciously attacking Tommaso Ciampa backstage. Just over four months later he defeated Keith Lee at NXT TakeOver XXX to become the NXT Champion, a rapid rise to the top but one that didn't come as a great shock. The celebration was tainted though, as news broke that Kross had separated his shoulder in the match and was going to have to relinquish the title. Momentum well and truly stopped.

Kross was positioned as a heel for his first run on NXT TV, but his injury and subsequent vacating of the title just screams 'super babyface return'. Kross is a serious talent, a man with a main event character and the ability to stand out in any crowd, and provided he stays injury-free he could well have a long and storied WWE career to look forward to.

That career will involve stints as a heel and as a face. There is something of early-2000s Triple H to Kross, albeit minus the backstage politics and the burials of all around him. Karrion Kross will soon return to NXT and he will do so as the top babyface on the brand.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.