The King of the Ring tournament is a favourite with fans, but seemingly treated with utter disdain by WWE creative. The tournament is held intermittently and the winner is usually treated like a joke. The 2015 edition was no different. Instead of doing the obvious thing and stretching the tournament over a couple of weeks in order to tell a story, the entire thing was rushed over two nights. Wade Barrett defeated Neville in the final to become King, and few would argue against this decision. It could very easily have acted as a catalyst for the bearer of Bad News. Instead, Barrett immediately entered into a feud with R-Truth over the title of King, which was degraded week after week after week. Now, I'm not saying that King of the Ring should be an annual thing, or that it should have its own special event. But is it too much to ask for the tournament to be treated with a little respect? Evidently so.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
