10 WWE Wrestlers Who Could Break Records Before 2020 Ends

4. Karrion Kross — Quickest Rise To NXT Champion

Karrion Kross Scarlett
WWE.com

Judging by his debut entrance, Karrion Kross is in for quite the push in NXT. Kross and Scarlett made their way to the ring surrounded by smoke, pomp and circumstance, to a theme made for mass singing, complete with histrionics and a big-fight feel. The entrance had Triple H’s fingerprints all over it. Kross then decimated a chump in no time, the first of what will surely be many decisive victories.

How quickly will Karrion Kross rise to the top of the NXT food chain? If he manages to claim the NXT Championship before July 7, he will replace Kevin Owens as the fastest to the title. KO’s rise to the top was astronomic, helped no end by Sami Zayn winning the gold on the night KO made his debut, allowing Owens to immediately turn on Zayn and dethrone him just 62 days later.

Kross has a tougher task on his hands. For one, booking plans are liable to change at a moment’s notice right now as WWE struggles to contend with the health crisis. Secondly, the current NXT Champion is a heel, Adam Cole. The Undisputed Era could certainly work as tweeners, but is Kross going to dethrone the longest-reigning NXT Champion in history in front of no fans? Unlikely. Could he defeat a transitional champion in such circumstances? Almost certainly. He has less than two months to do so.

Tick tock.

Advertisement
In this post: 
The Miz
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

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.