Two time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T who is a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently talked about the main roster debut match of the NXT champion Karrion Kross.
Karrion Kross who is the current NXT champion is still undefeated on NXT made his main roster debut last week on Monday Night RAW against the former three times WWE champion Jeff Hardy. Jeff who is currently playing a jobber role for quite a while shocked the world when he defeated the debuting Karrion Kross.
Booker T On The RAW Debut Of Karrion Kross
It was first defeat of Kross in WWE. The booking decision was the highly criticized by the fans and the critics. This one single match presented NXT as really weak of a promotion. The man who was undefeated throughout his career in the NXT main roster debut match s a jobber.
Kross will lose the title very soon and maybe he would drop the title against Samoa Joe but still it was not a very good look for NXT. Kross won his match against Keith Lee quite dominantly this week on RAW though. Maybe WWE understood Kross is still not ready for the push she received.
Former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion Booker T who is a two times WWE Hall of Famer tried to defend this booking decision of WWE when he recently spoke on this matter on his Hall of Fame podcast. He said;
“What was the internet set ablaze for? What do they have to do with the show? Guys, it’s not about the match most of the time, it’s about the story. Karrion Kross is a guy who’s the NXT Champion and he’s undefeated down in NXT.
“But one thing you have to realize is that it’s still NXT…..losing to Jeff Hardy in a match that everybody in the world thought Karrion Kross making his debut is a match that he’s supposed to win, but Jeff Hardy is still a veteran to the game.
“Jeff Hardy didn’t go out there and beat him with the Whisper in the Wind either. Jeff Hardy stole the match from Karrion Kross. When they’re doing this, they’re doing it for a reason. When they did that, it was all for a reason.
“You gotta understand what the reason is opposed to just trying to analyze it and think you know exactly the way it should have went because you didn’t get what you thought you should’ve got at that moment.
“The thing is, we don’t know if we’re not going to go that route. We don’t know that. We just know that Karrion Kross showed up on Monday Night RAW and lost and went back to NXT and got into an angle with Samoa Joe.
“We don’t know if Karrion Kross is going to be back next week, and probably not, and when he does come back we don’t know he’s going to be with Scarlett or not. I just think people jump the gun so much because it’s like instant coffee.
“They want it right now. They want instant gratification. I just don’t think you can book the wrestling business around what the fans want on any given night. It would be booking yourself into a corner every week. You just can’t do it.
Credit: Hall of Fame Podcast. H/T 411Mania