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Recurring professional wrestling tournament by WWE

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The King of the Band tournament is a men's professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held periodically by WWE, a Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion. Established in 1985, the winner of the inaugural tournament was Don Muraco. The prize for winning the tournament is being crowned the "King of the Ring"; some wrestlers take incorporated this into their graphic symbol, such as adorning king's attire and interim and speaking with a regal attitude. Only i tournament awarded an additional reward, which was the 2002 tournament where winner Brock Lesnar received a lucifer for the WWE Undisputed Title. The tournament is also notable for beginning Stone Cold Steve Austin's rise to stardom after he won the 1996 tournament.

The tournament was established when the promotion was nonetheless called the Globe Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed to WWE in 2002). Information technology was held annually from 1985 to 2002, with the exception of 1990 and 1992. The tournaments from 1985 to 1989 and in 1991 were held equally special non-televised business firm shows. A pay-per-view (PPV) event titled Male monarch of the Ring then began ambulation as the annual June PPV from 1993 until the final PPV in 2002; these titular PPVs featured the final few matches of that twelvemonth's tournament as well every bit other matches non part of the tournament. After a 4-year hiatus, the tournament returned in 2006 and has since been held periodically with the most recent occurring in 2021. These tournaments' matches aired across episodes of Raw and SmackDown with the finals occurring at a unlike PPV, such as Judgment Twenty-four hour period for 2006, or on an episode of Raw. The semifinals and final of the 2015 tournament aired exclusively as a WWE Network consequence.

WWE introduced the brand extension in early 2002 and the tournament that year was held for wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown! brands. When the tournament returned in 2006, it was held exclusively for wrestlers from SmackDown!. The tournaments in 2008 and 2010 were held as interbrand tournaments, with the 1 in 2008 also featuring wrestlers from Raw and ECW, while the one in 2010 just featured those from Raw and SmackDown after ECW was disbanded earlier that same twelvemonth. The 2015 tournament occurred when the brand dissever was not in effect. The brand divide was reinstated in 2016, and tournaments held since take featured wrestlers from both Raw and SmackDown. A women'southward version called Queen's Crown was introduced alongside the 2021 Male monarch of the Ring tournament.

History [edit]

Early tournaments [edit]

The first Male monarch of the Ring tournament was held by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on July 8, 1985 at the Sullivan Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The inaugural tournament was won by Don Muraco, who defeated The Fe Sheik in the final. In addition to the tournament, there was merely one other lucifer during the night, in which Blob Hogan defeated Nikolai Volkoff to retain the WWF World Heavyweight Title.[1] Farther Rex of the Ring tournaments were held from 1986 to 1989 and in 1991.[2] These early tournaments were held equally special non-televised house shows in an effort to boost omnipresence at these events. The reward for winning the tournament was the title "Male monarch of the Ring," although 1986 winner Harley Race was the only one to carry this gimmick onto television during these early on years of the tournament.[3]

Pay-per-view [edit]

In 1993, the WWF began to produce an annual June pay-per-view (PPV) titled King of the Ring. The countdown King of the Ring PPV took place on June 13, 1993, at the Nutter Eye in Dayton, Ohio. Dissimilar the previous not-televised events, the PPV did not feature all of the tournament'south matches. Instead, several of the qualifying matches preceded the result with the last few matches then taking place at the pay-per-view. There were also other matches that took place at the event equally it was a traditional three-hr pay-per-view.[4] The King of the Band pay-per-view was considered one of the promotion's "Large V" PPVs of the year, along with the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, up until its disestablishment after the 2002 issue—the 2002 tournament was also the only tournament to award the winner a advantage other than the title of "King of the Ring;" winner Brock Lesnar received a match for the WWE Undisputed Championship at that twelvemonth's SummerSlam.[5] Too in early 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) following a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund over the "WWF" initialism,[vi] and the promotion introduced the brand extension, in which the roster was divided between the Raw and SmackDown! brands where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform.[vii] The 2002 tournament was in turn held for wrestlers from both brands.[5]

Revivals [edit]

Subsequently a four-year hiatus, the tournament returned in 2006 and was held exclusively for wrestlers from the SmackDown! brand. Unlike the previous years, however, there was not an associated pay-per-view. Instead, tournament matches took place across episodes of SmackDown!. The concluding of the 2006 tournament did occur at a PPV, but information technology was at Judgment Day where Booker T defeated Bobby Lashley in the tournament final.[eight] The tournament then returned in 2008, and was held as a special episode of Raw on April 21. This tournament was held for wrestlers from all three of WWE's brands at the fourth dimension—Raw, SmackDown, and ECW, the latter of which was established as a third make in 2006. The 2008 tournament was won by Raw's William Regal, who defeated ECW's CM Punk in the last.[9] The 2010 tournament was then held in November that year. Qualifying matches occurred on the Nov 22 episode of Raw with the tournament itself being held on the Nov 29 episode. The 2010 tournament but featured wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown, equally ECW had been disbanded in Feb that twelvemonth. It was won by Raw'south Sheamus, who defeated John Morrison, also from Raw, in the last.[10]

Later on a five-year hiatus, the tournament returned in 2015. Quarterfinal matches were held on the April 27 episode of Raw, with the semifinals and final ambulation the following nighttime exclusively equally an event on WWE's online streaming service, the WWE Network, which launched in February 2014. Bad News Barrett defeated Neville in the final. At this time, the brand split was non in effect as the make extension had been dissolved in Baronial 2011; also in April 2011, the promotion ceased using its full proper name with "WWE" becoming an orphaned initialism.[eleven] Afterwards some other four-year hiatus and after the brand extension had been reinstated in 2016, the tournament returned in 2019 and featured wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown. In this tournament, in that location was a Raw subclass and a SmackDown bracket and the winners of each faced off in the Rex of the Band tournament last. Tournament matches began on the August 19 episode of Raw and were held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown over the next month.[12] The last was originally scheduled to occur at that twelvemonth'southward Clash of Champions event, simply was rescheduled to occur on the following nighttime'south episode of Raw on September xvi.[thirteen] The tournament was won past Raw's Businesswoman Corbin, who defeated SmackDown'due south Chad Gable in the final.[fourteen]

The tournament returned in 2021 and was again between wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown. Like the 2019 tournament, at that place were two brackets, 1 for each brand. Information technology began on the October 8 episode of SmackDown and continued across episodes of Raw and SmackDown, with the final held at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view and WWE Network event on Oct 21, 2021. Additionally, a women's version of the tournament was introduced, called Queen's Crown, and was held simultaneously aslope the men'south tournament.[15] [sixteen] [17] [18] Raw'south Xavier Woods defeated SmackDown'south Finn Bálor to win the 2021 tournament.[19]

Male monarch gimmicks [edit]

In 1986, the 2nd Male monarch of the Ring winner, Harley Race, parlayed his victory into an arrogant King of Wrestling gimmick, featuring a regal cape and crown. This gimmick led to several notable feuds for Race with Junkyard Dog, Hulk Hogan, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and others, fifty-fifty after new winners had been crowned in the annual tournament. In 1988, Race suffered an intestinal injury and during his absence, his manager Bobby "The Brain" Heenan awarded the crown to Haku in July, rechristening him Rex Haku, even though Randy Cruel had won the tournament by that point and Ted DiBiase would also win the tournament during this storyline. Race eventually returned from his injury and briefly feuded with King Haku, but was unable to regain the crown at the 1989 Royal Rumble. King Haku then lost the crown to "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan in May 1989.[20] "Rex Hacksaw" so lost it on Baronial 30, 1989 to "Macho Man" Randy Vicious, who rebranded himself "Macho King."[21] Savage abandoned the "Macho King" gimmick upon his loss in a "Career catastrophe friction match" to The Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VII in 1991, declaring afterwards that "the Kingdom of the Madness has been croaky in half." Post-obit this, but wrestlers who had won the most contempo tournament, as well as Jerry Lawler (who had used a King of Wrestling image regionally in the Memphis area since the early on 1970s) would utilize the gimmick up until 2021.

Owen Hart ("King of Harts"),[22] Mabel ("King Mabel"),[23] Kurt Angle ("King Kurt"), Edge ("King Border the Awesome"), Booker T ("Rex Booker"),[24] Sheamus ("Male monarch Sheamus"),[25] [26] Bad News Barrett ("King Barrett"), Businesswoman Corbin ("King Corbin"), and Xavier Woods ("King Woods") are all wrestlers that also took on "King" nicknames after winning King of the Band tournaments, with varying amounts of indulgence in their corresponding gimmick. William Regal won the tournament while serving as General Director of Raw[27] and began displaying Male monarch Lear signs of tyranny and delusion. Triple H alluded to his King of the Ring victory as part of his integrated gimmick starting in 2006 as the "King of Kings."[28] In add-on to the King's crown, various female wrestlers were portrayed as Queen while they were aligned with Kings, including "Queen of the Ring" The Fabled Moolah (aligned with King Harley Race at WrestleMania Iii), Sensational Queen Sherri (manager of "Manlike King" Randy Savage),[29] and Queen Sharmell (director of Rex Booker).[thirty] Mo, Mabel's tag squad partner in Men on a Mission, was "knighted" as Sir Mo past his partner after the latter'south 1995 victory. Finlay and Regal were "knighted" as Sir Finlay and Sir Regal when they were role of King Booker'southward Court. In December 2020, King Corbin started a faction with Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake, knighting them as the "Knights of the Solitary Wolf" (with lone wolf a reference to his previous nickname), although this would be short-lived as Cutler was released past WWE in February 2021.[31] Corbin's king gimmick ended in June 2021 after he lost his King of the Ring crown in a match to Shinsuke Nakamura, who so took on a rex persona, existence called Male monarch Nakamura.[32] On October viii, 2021, but prior to the start of the 2021 tournament that night, Nakamura respectfully relinquished the crown.[33] Later Xavier Wood won the 2021 tournament and became King Forest, he knighted his New Day tag team partner Kofi Kingston as "Sir Kofi Kingston", and appointed him the Hand of the King.[34]

List of winners [edit]

# Yr Winner Times won Finals engagement Runner-up Finals location Ref.
1 1985 Don Muraco 1 July viii, 1985 The Iron Sheik Foxborough, Massachusetts [1]
two 1986 Harley Race 1 July 14, 1986 Pedro Morales [35]
iii 1987 Randy Savage 1 September 4, 1987 Rex Kong Bundy Providence, Rhode Island [36]
4 1988 Ted DiBiase 1 October 16, 1988 Randy Roughshod [37]
v 1989 Tito Santana i October xiv, 1989 Rick Martel [38]
half-dozen 1991 Bret Hart 1 September seven, 1991 Irwin R. Schyster [39]
7 1993 2 June thirteen, 1993 Bam Bam Bigelow Dayton, Ohio [4]
8 1994 Owen Hart 1 June 19, 1994 Razor Ramon Baltimore, Maryland [twoscore]
9 1995 Mabel 1 June 25, 1995 Savio Vega Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [41]
ten 1996 Rock Cold Steve Austin one June 23, 1996 Jake Roberts Milwaukee, Wisconsin [42]
11 1997 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 1 June 8, 1997 Flesh Providence, Rhode Island [43]
12 1998 Ken Shamrock 1 June 28, 1998 The Rock Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [44]
xiii 1999 Billy Gunn 1 June 27, 1999 10-Pac Greensboro, N Carolina [45]
14 2000 Kurt Angle one June 25, 2000 Rikishi Boston, Massachusetts [46]
15 2001 Edge i June 24, 2001 Kurt Bending Due east Rutherford, New Jersey [47]
16 2002 Brock Lesnar 1 June 23, 2002 Rob Van Dam Columbus, Ohio [5]
17 2006 Booker T 1 May 21, 2006 Bobby Lashley Phoenix, Arizona [8]
18 2008 William Regal 1 Apr 21, 2008 CM Punk Greenville, South Carolina [nine]
19 2010 Sheamus 1 Nov 29, 2010 John Morrison Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [10]
20 2015 Bad News Barrett 1 Apr 28, 2015 Neville Moline, Illinois [xi]
21 2019 Businesswoman Corbin 1 September xvi, 2019 Chad Gable Knoxville, Tennessee [fourteen]
22 2021 Xavier Woods 1 October 21, 2021 Finn Bálor Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [19]

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