10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About 2021
7. Queen’s Crown Went Less Than 20 Minutes
WWE's brand new Queen's Crown tournament (the women's version of King Of The Ring) featured seven matches in total during October. On TV, announcers told fans that they were watching history unfold. Someone was going to run the gruelling gauntlet and take the crown at Crown Jewel.
The entire tournament lasted less than 20 minutes.
No, seriously. Add all seven bouts up and you get a grand total of 19 minutes and 35 seconds of ring time bell-to-bell. Two of the opening round matches (Liv Morgan vs. Carmella and Dana Brooke vs. Shayna Baszler) even went less than two bloody minutes.
That's tragic. Zelina Vega's tourney-winning final win over Doudrop in Saudi Arabia was an 'Iron Man' by comparison. They wrestled for 5:55, which made it the closest to a properly-competitive/worthwhile match WWE had booked throughout.
Meanwhile, the men's KOTR brackets ran for almost a full hour across seven one vs. ones.