Impact Wrestling Needs to Build A Moose vs. Killer Kross Feud

Impact Wrestling aligned former Impact World Champion Austin Aries with Killer Kross and former babyface and Aries’ rival Moose not long after Slammiversary this year. Now that Aries is gone, what else is there for Kross and Moose to do but fight?

Impact Wrestling made what we could kindly describe as an “interesting choice” when they had Killer Kross, who’d they’d been promoting for months as a vindictively sadist heel, play a second-fiddle of sorts to then Impact World Champion Austin Aries.

They then made an even more “interesting choice” when they had Moose, who had a very deep-running and emotional feud with Aries going into Slammiversary, betray his friend Eddie Edwards and align himself with Aries and Kross seemingly out of nowhere.

However now, it seems like Aries is done with Impact Wrestling for the time being, and Kross and Moose are left to hold down the fort for the leader-less Aries Crew by themselves.

If there’s one thing I’ve been vocal about, it’s the fact that the Moose turn, out of all the things questionable about the sequence of events surrounding Austin Aries, made the least amount of sense.

If there’s another thing I could point out that’s almost as offensively bewildering, it’s the fact that Killer Kross should never have been booked as one of Aries’ “minions”, to put it dramatically. In fact, I’m quiet surprised Kross didn’t turn on Aries before this.

What Impact ended up doing was making two creative decisions that booked two performers with significant potential into a corner. Now that the facade of that decision is seemingly gone, Impact is faced with having to redeem that decision, and the solution to me is very obvious.

The usual saying “two wrongs don’t make a right” usually holds a lot of truth, but the situation Impact has found themselves in should now allow their two wrongs to make a big, brutal hoss of a right.

Now that Aries is out of the picture, it would be very likely for Impact to simply dissemble the remainder of Aries Crew quietly, just to simply stopping booking Moose and Kross together until they’re eventually established singles characters again.

It would really do them justice not to, again, right their wrongs with the two characters before they do.

You have to imagine that while there’s still only two of them, there may be some kind of power struggle brewing between Kross and Moose; which one of them will establish themselves as “leader” and which one will inherently fall into the roll of “follower”?

The power struggle that ensues between Kross and Moose would undoubtedly be able to stabilize both characters and relieve them of the odd booking that plagued them through their association with Aries.

The alignment in this feud would be pretty easy (incredibly easy) to predict – Kross would show the depth of his true colors and play the deranged and savage heel, while Moose may be able to finally see the error of his ways and turn back to face.

This would result in one of the biggest hoss-matches Impact Wrestling could book themselves with it’s current roster (outside of anything with Brian Cage in it), and with it’s lackluster booking coming into it’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view last week, Impact could surely use a heavy-hitting and logical feud to make up for it.

The booking for this match doesn’t have to be immediately also; it could be one of those teams that breaks up over building frustration over losses, bumbling mistakes, and the like. Kross and Moose will face babyface dream team KM and Fallah Bah next week, and I’m sure a loss to that team would get under the skin of Moose and Kross enough to get the rumblings going.

My only real hope is that Impact realizes that these two performers were always going to be more successful as stand-alone performers, and in an attempt to rectify their odd booking, we’re given a high-octane feud that offers us feats of strength and power that make the round-about it took to get there worth it.