WWE Missed Opportunities: Remembering the Tag Team KroniK

If you were a fan of World Championship Wrestling around the year 2000, you may remember the tag team KroniK. But they can easily be forgotten even if you were.

KroniK was a team comprised of veteran wrestlers Bryan Clark and Brian Adams. They can best be remembered for competing as Adam Bomb (Clark) and Crush (Adams) in WWE earlier in their careers.

Both were part of the WCW roster toward its dying days. Adams was given a run as part of the New World Order while Clark found some success as a character known as "Wrath."

After their careers as singles competitors began to fade out, the two teamed up to form KroniK. Similar in size and appearance, KroniK made up a formidable team in WCW's tag team ranks.

They had plenty of success in WCW, running through many tag teams on their way to becoming two-time WCW Tag Team champions. But when WWE purchased WCW, they chose not to pick up the contracts of Clark and Adams.

No, neither man was a technical master inside the ring, but they had put together impressive careers both individually and collectively, and that was something WWE could have capitalized on.

In September 2001, WWE chose to bring in KroniK, and it appeared they would be an excellent addition to a tag team division that already including The Dudley Boys, Edge and Christian, Matt and Jeff Hardy, Right to Censor and The APA, to name a few.

But WWE didn't have much of a vision for them at all.

KroniK debuted on an episode of SmackDown, winning a quick Squash match over the tag team Kaientai. Less than one week later, they faced Undertaker and Kane at the Unforgiven pay-per-view.

From 2000-2001, KroniK vs. Undertaker and Kane was a match many fans likely wanted to see happen. At Unforgiven, they got that wish.

But instead of a solid match that led to a great rivalry, Undertaker and Kane dispatched of the former WCW stars rather easily. WWE apparently soured on the performance of KroniK so badly that it chose not to use them after that event.

Maybe their chemistry with Undertaker and Kane wasn't great, but WWE should have put the two big men in a match with another team, such as The Dudleys or The Hardys.

But that wasn't the case. Instead, neither man was ever seen in WWE after that match.

Adams had a very good run in WWE as Crush, and though that character was finished after WWE used four different variations of it, the company could have gotten more out of Clark returning to his persona as Wrath.

Wrath was an intimidating star in WCW that could have been a great opponent for someone like Kane, Undertaker or even Steve Austin.

Another route WWE could have taken would have been to transform Chris Kanyon back into one of the roles he played in WCW as Mortis. Wrath and Mortis had a short run as a tag team in WCW, but it was an interesting team that WWE could have reinvigorated with some creativity. 

Clark could have returned as Wrath and gained the help of Mortis to exact revenge on Undertaker and Kane. With a much more athletic Mortis in the match, it wouldn't have been as slow and plodding as the match at Unforgiven.

WWE should have explored other options with these Superstars, rather than discarding them so quickly. While the WWE tenure of KroniK may not be a massive missed opportunity, it was a missed opportunity nonetheless.