Wednesday, October 27, 2010

King of the Ring to Return

King William Regal
Photo Credit: WWE.com
Via Dot Net

November 29th's RAW was announced earlier as being a three-hour show, which led many to speculate that it was a potential Slammy Award RAW, along with two other three-hour RAWs announced in that time frame. Well, that's not the case. The show, emanating from the Spectrum CoreStates First Union Wachovia Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, will host the King of the Ring tournament.

This is good news, as I'm a mark for tournaments, and I always thought KotR got a bad rap as a PPV not because of the concept, but because of the poor booking decisions that the WWF/E made for their Kings. Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar were all great choices, but Mabel? Billy Gunn? C'mon son.

Anyway, the last time it was held, William Regal won and then promptly got hit with a Wellness violation. Whoever wins this tourney hopefully has better luck than Regal, but I will echo what Dot Net said and agree that the WWE's talent field is pretty deep and worthy of having a tournament such as this. My early, unfounded and unsubstantiated pick to win a month out is Alberto del Rio, by the way.

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