WWE Armchair Booking: How to Maximize Kalisto's Arrival to Main Roster

Kalisto is a live wire of a wrestler, and WWE has to find a place to funnel his electricity to make the most of his stay on the main roster.

It's smart to continue his alliance with Sin Cara, but the company can't just hope that his success at NXT carries over. It has more work ahead of it to turn Kalisto into a star rather than a footnote.

Fans need reasons to root for him. Kalisto needs ample opportunity to provide lots of action. Finally, a clear goal in mind would help him capture the audience's attention.

Before he and Sin Cara head off on that journey, though, he has to establish a connection with the crowd.

Introducing Kalisto

Lucha Underground has thrived in creating mythos for its masked luchadors. They aren't all just athletic dudes from Mexico. They are fleshed-out characters.

In a series of vignettes, Lucha Underground has provided the backstories for these warriors. Pentagon Jr. traveled to the Far East to learn ancient fighting arts. Drago is portrayed as a descendant of dragons, a hybrid man and mythical beast.

WWE need not plagiarize from Lucha Underground, but be inspired by that show.

Kalisto does not have a complete persona yet. He's an exciting in-ring performer in need of character depth.

With as skilled as the WWE production team has shown itself to be, it's a safe bet that it could come up with some engrossing videos to showcase Kalisto. The goal for these should be to tell fans who he is and where he came from so that he doesn't have to do so on the mic.

Compensate for his below-average promo skills by treating him the way Lucha Underground did Drago. Make him compelling beyond how well he flies. Give the announcers more to refer to during his bouts.

A Win Streak over Makeshift Alliances

Too often, teams work their way into title contention with just a win or two. They battle the tag champs, and if they fall, they struggle to gain any momentum afterward.

Rather than follow that script with The Lucha Dragons, WWE should use a title loss as a narrative of its own.

Give Kalisto and Sin Cara a title shot against Cesaro and Tyson Kidd on pay-per-view.

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Kidd and Cesaro dominate the match. They keep Kalisto in their corner for the majority of the action, abusing him with uppercuts and dropkicks. In the end, Kalisto can't reach his teammate and takes a Blockbuster to the mat en route to defeat.

The loss sends The Lucha Dragons to the back of the line.

Kalisto promises to make up for letting the team down. He and Sin Cara vow to climb back up the division.

WWE's thin roster of tag teams gives Kalisto and his partner few options going forward. To counteract that, the company should form a number of new and temporary teams.

Everyone in the locker room is hungry to dethrone Cesaro and Kidd. They are willing to test out new allies to do so.

Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel team for a few nights before driving each other insane. The Miz and Stardust join forces on one Raw. Heath Slater goes on a long search for a new tag team partner, the perfect bandmate as he puts it, and wrestles with a number of different wrestlers from Big Show to Tyler Breeze.

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The Lucha Dragons feast on all these burgeoning partnerships.

Their chemistry and speed allow them to knock off Dallas and Axel or Miz and Stardust. Those duos bicker while Kalisto and Sin Cara work seamlessly together.

This is a great chance for Kalisto to show off his skills and build up his resume. The wins come rolling in until the high-flyers earn another crack at Cesaro and Kidd.

Heading for the Champs

By this time, Cesaro and Kidd would have been champs for several months. They would have had a handful of feuds, but their story with The Lucha Dragons would never stop.

Kalisto and Sin Cara continually lurk, continually fight their way closer to them.

The Lucha Dragons cement their status as rightful challengers by winning a No. 1 contender's match against old rivals The Ascension.

Cesaro and Kidd hint that they are afraid of the luchadors. After all, they are in the midst of a winning streak against a variety of opponents. Kidd insists that their title match is a 2-out-of-3 Falls match, just so that there are no flukes.

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He's right to have chosen that stipulation. Kalisto pins Kidd in the first fall with La Magistral.

In the second fall, Cesaro dominates. He pounds Kalisto to the point that he is dizzy, wobbling, unaware of what corner he is in. Cesaro and Kidd use a Cesaro Swing and dropkick combo to finish him off.

Kalisto then leans on the ring apron outside, unable to go on. Sin Cara fights alone. He does well considering the odds but eventually finds himself in trouble.

When he eventually tags in Kalisto, Cesaro laughs. The Swiss Superman urges Kalisto to come at him, which he does, but with staggered steps.

Gutting it out, Kalisto makes a big comeback, knocking both guys over. After hitting the Salida del Sol, he crawls atop Kidd and gets the pin.

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Sin Cara has to hold up Kalisto as they accept the tag titles. As champ, WWE can then paint him as an unrelenting warrior who overcomes all the obstacles thrown his way.

Cesaro looks to become a singles wrestler afterward. Kidd sticks around the division, recruiting a new partner—Solomon Crowe—with whom he could go after The Lucha Dragons. A new feud featuring four athletic grapplers begins.

That acts as the next stage where Kalisto engages fans with his kinetic in-ring circus.