7 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 13)

3. Karrion O’Haire

Did WWE deliberately have Karrion Kross use a tagline that Sean O’Haire used to use way back in 2003?

Kross delivered a rambling backstage promo, clearly reading a prompter off-screen as he talked about insatiable suffering, a lack of empathy, no motives or goals – other than to hurt everyone – and that he won’t get lost in the shuffle. Oh, and everyone will fall and pray.

This is what amounts to “character development” in today’s WWE: long-winded promos that people either can’t or don’t care to understand or follow substituting for actual personality. How does that promo make Kross stand out? How does it help him connect with the audience. No one talks like that.

It’s just another typical overwriting job by some failed TV writer who was probably fired from a daytime soap or cable drama and is trying to show off their chops here.

Advertisement
Contributor
Contributor

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.