10 Fascinating WWE King Of The Ring 1994 Facts
1. It Had The First Singles WWE PPV Main Event With Two Forty-Year-Olds
Man, of all the times to haul out that "New Generation" campaign. King of the Ring 1994 marked the seventeenth time that a WWE pay-per-view ended with a singles match, and go figure, it was the first time that both participants were aged 40 years or older. Not even any of Hulk Hogan's prior matches could say that (he turned 40 one week after leaving WWE in August 1993).
The match pitted part-time wrestlers Rowdy Roddy Piper (40) and Jerry "The King" Lawler (44) in a match hardly fitting of each man's respective legends. The story was that Piper agreed to come out of retirement for one match to shut Lawler up, and would donate his winnings to a children's hospital. This cast Lawler as some antiquated Scrooge-like fiend that would deprive sick kids such an endowment by beating Piper and keeping the winner's share of the purse for himself.
Yeah, 1994 wasn't a banner year for WWE.