Karrion Kross Teases Alliance With Newly Released AEW Tag Team (WWE News)

WWE's Karrion Kross builds bridge with former AEW stars in video teaser

by Michael Hamflett
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Could Karrion Kross be looking to reboot The Final Testament with a recently-released AEW act?

That's what many rushed to decide when he posted a video of himself staring into the middle distance as the strains of The Righteous' theme music played in the background.

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It didn't go unnoticed by the men themselves - both Vincent and Dutch replied to the post, with the finger click and musical note emojis respectively.

It's the latest intriguing act from Kross, who continues to generate buzz on social media despite no obvious significant storyline direction in WWE outside of a passing and somewhat oblique involvement in AJ Styles' WrestleMania 41 feud with Logan Paul. Kross aimed to help 'The Phenomenal One' cheat at the 'Show Of Shows', but had his offer rejected, and has returned to playing the devil on various wrestlers' shoulders since. Either side of that appearance in Vegas, he cut a rousing promo ahead of his Bloodsport XIII match with J. R. Kratos and then delivered a worked shoot speech that went viral during a Sam Roberts post-WrestleMania podcast. A documentary covering that week in his life has been critically acclaimed too.

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The Righteous requested and were granted their release by Tony Khan this month, and Kross was quick to fold them into whatever he's currently working on in the aftermath of that report. The pair landed in Ring of Honor prior to Khan's 2022 purchase, initially led by Vincent. Dutch joined the group later, and the pair competed mostly on ROH programming with occasional appearances on AEW Collision and Rampage.

They worked AEW WrestleDream 2023, losing a ROH Tag Team Championship handicap match to MJF, who worked solo due to the injury sustained by Better Than You Bay-Bay partner Adam Cole. Short of a brief alliance with Jake Roberts and Lance Archer, the pair were somewhat forgotten creatively, and the pair requesting their releases came as little surprise.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett