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Three wrestlers advance in WWE Queen of the Ring tournament

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Three wrestlers have advanced to the second round of the WWE Queen of the Ring tournament. 

The tournament began on Monday’s Raw episode with three first round bouts, with the fourth first round match on the Raw side of the bracket to take place on house shows this coming weekend. 

In Monday’s first round action, IYO SKY defeated Natalya to advance to the next round, Zoey Stark defeated Ivy Nile to move on, plus Lyra Valkyria defeated Dakota Kai to advance to round two. 

Kai was an injury substitution for Damage CTRL stablemate Asuka who was originally announced as Valkyria’s opponent. 

The final first round match on the Raw side of the bracket will take place this weekend on a house show, with Shayna Baszler taking on Zelina Vega. 

SKY will face the winner of the Baszler vs. Vega match on next Monday’s Raw, while Valkyria will face Stark in the second round on next week’s episode.

The first round matches on the SmackDown side of the bracket will begin on this Friday’s SmackDown show. 

The finals of both the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments will be held at the King and Queen of the Ring PLE in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Saturday, May 25.

Our full coverage from Monday’s WWE Raw episode is here.

Asuka pulled from WWE Queen of the Ring tournament due to injury

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Asuka has been pulled from the Queen of the Ring tournament due to injury, WWE announced. 

WWE’s Queen of the Ring tournament kicked off on Monday’s Raw, with an Asuka vs. Lyra Valkyria first round match announced. Dakota Kai, Kairi Sane, and IYO SKY of Damage CTRL then announced in a promo segment on Monday that Asuka was injured and that Kai would take her place in the Valkyria match. 

Asuka worked WWE’s European tour last week, including Saturday’s Backlash event in France where she and Sane dropped the Women’s Tag Team titles to Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair, but has been banged up in recent months, including missing time in March due to a knee injury. 

WWE did not comment on the nature of Asuka’s current injury.

Substituting for Asuka, Kai lost in the first round tournament match to Valkyria on Monday’s Raw, which featured three first round matches from both the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments. 

Our full coverage from Monday’s Raw is available here.

Three more wrestlers declare for WWE King of the Ring tournament

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Three more wrestlers have declared entry into the 2024 WWE King of the Ring tournament. 

LA Knight, Santos Escobar, and Carmelo Hayes all stated their intention to enter the tournament on Friday’s SmackDown. Those three join Drew McIntyre, Gunther, and 2021 tournament winner Xavier Woods as the six entrants confirmed thus far on WWE TV. 

Knight and Escobar announced their entries in a promo segment on Friday’s SmackDown after Knight defeated Escobar’s Legado Del Fantasma stablemate Angel. Hayes declared his entry in a backstage promo segment on SmackDown with GM Nick Aldis.

The King of the Ring tournament begins on the Monday, May 6 Raw, and will continue on the Friday, May 10 WWE SmackDown. The finals will be held at the WWE King and Queen of the Ring PLE set for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 25. 

No entrants have been announced for the Queen of the Ring tournament thus far, and brackets for both the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments have also yet to be revealed. 

King of the Ring entrants: 

  • Drew McIntyre
  • Gunther
  • Xavier Woods
  • LA Knight
  • Santos Escobar
  • Carmelo Hayes

King of the Ring tournament to begin on next WWE Raw

Posted on by Bryan Rose

The King of the Ring tournament will begin soon.

It was announced on Monday that the tournament to crown the next king of WWE will begin on next week’s Raw. The finals of the tournament will take place at WWE King & Queen of the Ring in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 25 at the Jeddah Super Dome. A tournament will also be held to crown the second-ever Queen of the Ring.

On last week’s Raw, Gunther declared that he was entering the King of the Ring tournament. Xavier Woods, who won the crown in 2021, came out and interrupted him. The two ended up in a match on this week’s show, with Gunther punishing Woods to the point that his New Day tag team partner, Kofi Kingston, considered throwing in the towel. Woods pleaded with Kingston not to do it, but ultimately tapped out to an STF by Gunther.

Woods won the King of the Ring tournament over two years ago by defeating Finn Balor in the finals at Crown Jewel in October of 2021. The first-ever Queen’s Crown tournament was decided at Crown Jewel as well, with Zelina Vega defeating Doudrop (Piper Niven) to become the first-ever tournament winner.

Here is what has been announced for next week’s WWE Raw:

  • King of the Ring tournament to begin

Three wrestlers declare for WWE King of the Ring tournament

Posted on by Ethan Renner

The first three entrants have declared for the WWE King of the Ring tournament. 

On Monday’s Raw, Drew McIntyre, Gunther, and Xavier Woods declared their entry into the 2024 King of the Ring tournament. The tournament finals will be held at the King and Queen of the Ring PLE set for Saturday, May 27 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 

In a video vignette for the tournament on Raw, it was explained that tournament matches will take place on WWE television between now and May 27, with the finals to be held at the PLE. 

In his first Raw appearance since dropping the Intercontinental Championship to Sami Zayn at WrestleMania 40, Gunther declared his intention to win the tournament. 2021 winner Xavier Woods also declared for the tournament in a follow-up promo with Imperium and The New Day. 

In a promo later in the program, Drew McIntyre announced that he was also setting his sights on winning the King of the Ring. 

A full bracket for the tournament has yet to be revealed. 

No entrants have been announced to this point for the Queen of the Ring tournament.  

WWE renames King and Queen of the Ring PPV

Posted on by Ethan Renner

WWE has changed the name of their next Saudi Arabia show. 

Originally announced as King and Queen of the Ring, the company announced today that the Saturday, May 27 event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will now be called Night of Champions. 

WWE last used the Night of Champions branding for a pay-per-view in 2015, a show headlined by Seth Rollins vs. Sting for the WWE World Heavyweight title. That name was dropped in favor of Clash of Champions in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020.

The company had filed for the King and Queen of the Ring trademarks last December, then announced the event on its programming on March 6. 

Night of Champions will be the second WWE pay-per-view in May, as Backlash is scheduled for Saturday, May 6 in Puerto Rico. 

No announcement has been made as to the future of the King and Queen of the Ring name, nor whether or not Night of Champions will still feature King and Queen of the Ring tournament bouts. 

WWE last held the King of the Ring and Queen’s Crown tournaments in 2021, with Xavier Woods and Zelina Vega winning those tournaments at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia in October of that year. 

WWE announces King & Queen of the Ring PPV for Saudi Arabia

Posted on by Bryan Rose

WWE has officially confirmed their next event in Saudi Arabia.

During tonight’s Raw, a commercial aired for WWE King and Queen of the Ring, which will take place May 28 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at the Jeddah Superdome. The event will take place just one day prior to AEW’s next pay-per-view, Double or Nothing, on May 28.

The last King of the Ring tournament was held at Crown Jewel back in October of 2021. On that show, Xavier Woods defeated Finn Balor to win the tournament. The first ever Queen of the Ring tournament was also held, with Zelina Vega defeating Doudrop (Piper Niven) to become the first Queen of the Ring.

WWE last visited Saudi Arabia on November 5, holding the 2022 Crown Jewel event. The top matches had Roman Reigns defeat Logan Paul to retain the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship and Bianca Belair defeat Bayley to retain the Raw Women’s Championship.

Report: WWE schedules ‘Backlash’ and ‘King and Queen of the Ring’ PPVs for May

Posted on by Ethan Renner

WWE will run two pay-per-views this May, according to a report. 

Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics reports that WWE has Backlash scheduled for Saturday, May 6, plus King and Queen of the Ring set for Saturday, May 27. 

The May 27 date is on Memorial Day weekend, traditionally the weekend that AEW holds their Double or Nothing pay-per-view in Las Vegas. AEW has run on the Sunday of that weekend the past two years after running Saturday for the first two Double or Nothing events.  

The report notes that this year’s Backlash will not have the “WrestleMania Backlash” title that the event had in 2021 and 2022. 

WWE filed for the “King and Queen of the Ring” trademark in December 2022. 

King of the Ring was a standalone pay-per-view for WWE from 1993 to 2002, and the tournament has since been incorporated into programming sporadically. 

Xavier Woods was the most recent King of the Ring, winning a tournament final at Crown Jewel in 2021. Zelina Vega was the winner of the 2021 “Queen’s Crown” tournament final at the same event.

WWE’s PPV schedule for the year to this point: 

  • WWE WrestleMania 39 night one, Saturday, April 1
  • WWE WrestleMania 39 night two, Sunday, April 2
  • WWE Backlash, Saturday, May 6
  • WWE King and Queen of the Ring, Saturday, May 27
  • WWE Money in the Bank, Saturday, July 1
  • WWE SummerSlam Saturday, August 5

Trademark filed for ‘WWE King and Queen of the Ring’

Posted on by Joseph Currier

The return of WWE’s King of the Ring — and the debut of Queen of the Ring — appear to be one step closer to becoming reality.

On December 8, WWE filed a trademark for “WWE King and Queen of the Ring.” The full trademark filing can be seen below:

WWE KING AND QUEEN OF THE RING

Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment services, namely, a show about professional wrestling; entertainment services, namely, the production and exhibition of professional wrestling events rendered through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing wrestling news and information through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing information in the fields of sports and entertainment through broadcast media including television and distributed via various platforms across multiple forms of transmission media; providing a website in the field of sports entertainment information

Dave Meltzer reported this October that WWE was considering bringing back King of the Ring as part of a show that would feature both the King of the Ring and Queen of the Ring tournaments. King of the Ring hasn’t been a standalone pay-per-view since 2002, though there was a WWE Network special in 2015 with the semifinals and finals of that year’s tournament.

Xavier Woods was crowned as WWE’s most recent King of the Ring at Crown Jewel 2021. Zelina Vega also won WWE’s first-ever Queen’s Crown tournament at that event.