Real Reason Why WWE Won’t Push Karrion Kross Reportedly Revealed

Karrion Kross has WWE fans behind him, but he might not have the full support of the company for one unusual reason.

Karrion Kross has received a huge groundswell of support from fans in recent months, not least because of his expletive-laden outburst after he was snubbed as Randy Orton’s WrestleMania opponent.

Kross has found TV time hard to come by, but he will be in action at Night of Champions, where he faces Sami Zayn after Zayn finally had enough of the star’s mind games.

There have been suggestions that Karrion Kross’ WWE contract expires towards the end of summer, which might explain why the company does not want to feature the star prominently. But there might be another reason for that after all.

Karrion Kross Won’t Take Bumps In A WWE Ring

Wade Keller noted on a recent PWTorch post-Raw podcast that there might be a more unusual reason that WWE is not pushing Kross: his apparent refusal to take flat back bumps:

I talked about this when he was all the rage in NXT and coming out of TNA. I was like, ‘wrestlers are telling me when he gets to the main roster, nobody’s gonna put up with the fact that he doesn’t take bumps.’ He’s scared to bump. He doesn’t flat back bump. I don’t know if he’s got an injury or a concern.

[Kross] favours one side, which can cause an injury, so I don’t know if he has a pre-existing condition or he’s just not comfortable taking bumps. I don’t know, I don’t have the inside story on that. But I know wrestlers who I chat with about things when I want wrestlers’ insight are like: ‘Oh right, Wade, you’re right when you say Karrion Kross won’t be a big star on the main roster, but one of the reasons you are missing out is just watch his next match. He just doesn’t really take bumps.

It’s not that he’s slow or plodding, or he’s not that tall compared to the rosters in TNA and NXT, where his gimmick kinda he needs to be taller than his opponent to make up for the fact that he’s not creating movement. Lot of things are working against him. But, all that said, I find this current character delightful.