#5 Nikki Cross is a special talent
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In an industry as old as professional wrestling, it becomes increasingly difficult to stand out as unique amongst your peers. Even the best superstars today normally borrow bits and pieces from earlier legends and try to put their own personal spin on them.
Every now and then, however, you come across superstars that immediately grab your attention for being unique, and make you genuinely excited about the prospect of witnessing their career pan out. For me, Nikki Cross is a current example of just this.
It’s probably is a little easier for the female superstars to build a unique feeling character, considering the WWE and other companies have relied on the same stereotypical personas for so long. With the women’s revolution comes the chance to try things not previously seen in quite some time, if at all. Cross is clearly putting a lot of effort into her character at the moment, and she is quickly becoming the most important part of the NXT women’s division as a result.
Take her ‘’interview’’ this week. After witnessing a nice video segment involving Ruby Riot, one of Cross’s opponents at takeover Chicago, where Riot talked a little about herself and her love of tattoos, we got something totally out of the ordinary when the time came for Cross to take the camera.
Her demented, free-spirited attitude towards life saw her basically refuse an interview, making it impossible for the media tech to place a microphone on her. She then took over the interview completely, talking into the camera directly at her opponents, as opposed to the usual bland interviews we see so often on all three main WWE shows. It’s little things like this that eventually make a star, and all going well, Cross could well be on her way to tearing it up on RAW or Smackdown very soon.
