5 days ago
#WeWantKross keeps trending, just the way someone planned it
It appears that Karrion Kross and Scarlett's latest WWE run is over. That appearance was created yesterday (Aug. 10) when the company moved the couple to the alumni section of its website and they announced their free agency.
That would usually be a pretty conclusive end of the story, or at least a key chapter in it. But as a frequent visitor of this and probably a few other wrestling websites, you know that there's been talk of Kross and WWE using his contract status as a storyline — especially since he went viral with a worked-shoot appearance on a WWE podcast over WrestleMania 41 weekend back in April.
Now, even the boys and girls in the locker room are reportedly wondering if the company might be working them as they seemed to have done around R-Truth's contract expiration a couple month back. On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said:
'The belief in WWE is [Kross]'s going to be back but, you know, we'll see. They are not telling anyone anything, but everyone is pretty skeptical.
'It's like, are they working the boys on this if he comes back? You can say yes, but it's not like they're being fooled. It's not like guys are coming and going, 'Oh no, he's really gone.' No one is saying that. They're just sort of like, 'We don't know but we figure he's going to be back' and 'we kind of figure it's an angle, but we don't really know.''
But work or shoot, it's caused a lot of commotion. As there always are with crowd noise, we've seen debates about how loud or authentic the in-arena support for Kross has been. But it's even more obvious online, where #WeWantKross has been a frequent trend on a few social media platforms for months. That was certainly the case last night after Kross posted both parts of his video documentary on he & Scarlett's WWE contract saga.
On X, Kross reposted this:
While WWE's promotion of the new LFG episode on A&E was flooded with responses featuring the hashtag:
It got to the point Bubba Ray used it to promote his own angle on LFG…
There's a lot of focus on the crowd in Quebec City's reaction to the Kross drama on Monday Night Raw. But some didn't wait for tonight's show, and took the same approach to Adam Pearce's weekly Raw announcement video on Instagram:
It's exactly the kind of grassroots digital campaign you want to see if you're in the Killer/Karrion Kross business, and the folks in that business have almost certainly been working to ensure it took off last night. But is that just Kevin Kesar and whoever's on his personal team? Or is that the entire WWE machine working in conjunction with the man behind the Kross character?
If he really is on the open market right now, his value's never been higher. It's easy to see what Kross would want this story to be as big as possible, and his moves the last few weeks have smartly helped make the current moment as big as possible. However… with talk of cameras backstage working on future seasons of Unreal for Netflix, there's already a theory circulating that WWE is attempting to recreate R-Truth's story for the hit docuseries. That could be motive enough to re-sign Kross.
Tonight's Raw may give us more of an indication, and not just because of 'We Want Kross' chants. While we wait for that — let us know what you think is going on, and who you think is responsible, in the comments below.
