{"id":52395,"date":"2019-08-12T20:32:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T00:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=52395"},"modified":"2019-08-17T13:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T17:19:01","slug":"wwe-bringing-back-king-of-the-ring-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/08\/12\/wwe-bringing-back-king-of-the-ring-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Bringing Back King of the Ring Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 20 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/wwe.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE<\/a> hosted an annual tournament that was a huge stepping stone for wrestlers to break out in the singles division. Starting in 1985, <strong>King of the Ring<\/strong> became a huge tournament that helped launched the singles careers of the likes of <strong>Bret &#8220;Hitman&#8221; Hart<\/strong> (1991, 1993), <strong>&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin<\/strong> (1996), <strong>Triple H<\/strong> (1997), <strong>Kurt Angle<\/strong> (2000), <strong>Edge<\/strong> (2001) and <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> (2002) to name a few. It ran annually from 1985 to 2002 (although there were missed years in 1990 and 1992), with it appearing sporadically after that in 2006, 2008, 2010 and lastly in 2015 (won by <strong>Bad News Barrett<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<h2>King of the Ring Tournament Returns<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Stone Cold&quot; gives his iconic &quot;Austin 3:16&quot; speech: King of the Ring 1996, only on WWE Network\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tjWPoQWdmjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Monday&#8217;s edition of <em><strong>Raw<\/strong><\/em> from Toronto, Ontario, WWE announced that starting next Monday, the King of the Ring tournament is back, with the tournament kicking off on Monday, August 19 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The news comes just a week removed from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2019\/08\/01\/harley-race-passes-away-at-age-76\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the death of the second-ever King of the Ring winner, <strong>Harley Race<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;The king has returned.&#8221; ?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KingOfTheRing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#KingOfTheRing<\/a> tournament RETURNS NEXT MONDAY on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RAW<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/48WKyuyfyV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/48WKyuyfyV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/1161070386542288896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52397\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52397\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/08\/X5A23BFUUUI6TLGIDWCHXLGKOM-e1565656209296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 20 years, WWE hosted an annual tournament that was a huge stepping stone for wrestlers to break out in the singles division. 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