Impact Wrestling: Killer Kross’s Debut Leaves Audience More Excited For What’s Next

After months of backstage attacks that left no member of the Impact Wrestling staff safe from harm, Killer Kross finally debuts, and he’s here to prove that evil is even more terrifying when it plans beforehand.

The build up to Killer Kross’s debut absolutely riveted me. It was prudently-paced, and utterly anonymous, something that is hard to come by in this era of technology. It was intellectual, something I’ve come to assume Killer Kross hones his character around – the ability to stay a step ahead.

Cue tonight, when Killer Kross made his in-ring debut against Fallah Bah, an obvious opponent seeing that Fallah was Kross’s last televised victim before his reveal. It hurts to say this, it really does, because babyface Fallah Bah is completely over with me… I was really eager to see how much damage Kross could do to an guy like Fallah. Rather, I was eager to see how much damage he’d be allowed to do to Fallah.

While its necessity is obvious, a match against a performer like Fallah Bah is indicative of the prominence Impact wants to put on Kross’s presence. If it’s a long match, with a clean win for Kross, I’d be inclined to think that putting him over clean against such a babyface denotes Impact is really putting their money on Kross. In that case, we should expect to see him in strong, technical bouts that don’t rely on the fact that he’s scary, but rather the fact that he can carry a match.

If you watched, however, you would know that was not entirely what happened. Kross won after Fallah lost consciousness at the hands of a submission hold, and the match was relatively short. It that respect, Kross’s debut left a little more to be desired. With the months of build-up that went into his character, the culmination could have been a little stronger. I for one wanted to know how all those calculated attacks manifested themselves in the ring.

That’s not to say the match didn’t have its highlights. Kross had some solid knee strikes in the corner, not to mention anyone who can suplex a 400-something-pound performer is establishing himself as formidable.

Next for Killer Kross will most likely be a program with Petey Williams, who Kross notably framed for the backstage attacks and who entered the ring in defense of Fallah and KM. Looking passed that, Kross has all the potential he needs to establish himself as the next big heel of Impact Wrestling.

Ideally, I would love to see Kross in an eventual program versus Sami Callihan. Think about it – if you establish Kross as a more intellectual heel, with his cryptic promos, and you pit that against the enraged and reckless style of Sami Callihan, you have what it takes to essentially create the Venom versus Carnage (shout out to my Marvel fans) of Impact Wrestling, which could lead to absolute chaos in the ring.

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Side note: Kross’s entrance is everything it should be, dark and menacing. It’s quite reminiscent of The Brood’s entrance in WWE.

This is just his first match with the company of course, so we’ve only yet seen the tip of the iceberg. I’m very eager to see what’s planned long-term for Kross.