10 Ways To Shake Up WWE This Summer

7. The KOTR Winner Gets A WWE Championship Match At SummerSlam

We can all agree that the 2015 re-introduction of the King of the Ring was a disaster and did more to tarnish the concept than it did to bring it back to any kind of prominence. Neville and Bad News Barrett had been trading wins for weeks on WWE Television so when they fought in the finals of the KOTR tournament and Barrett became King, it didn't feel particularly memorable. Barrett's poor booking in the months that followed, only hammered home the idea that the King of the Ring concept wasn't to be taken seriously. Back in the 1990's and early 2000's, the KOTR tournament was a big deal in the WWE with winners like Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Triple H, Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar. In 2002, when Lesnar won the tournament, the winner not only became King but got a WWE Championship match at SummerSlam. This is a prize that would be worthy of being included in the 2016 tournament, opening it up to bigger names and more interesting brackets. The roster is big enough to hold a 16 man tournament with the winner becoming King and getting to headline SummerSlam in the process. Sadly, at the moment if WWE went with the idea we'd potentially be getting King Strowman but hopefully once the fan reaction dies down, Vince McMahon will move on to another project. The King of the Ring tournament used to be an exciting part of the WWE calendar and it should be once again, so this July, instead of Battleground, it would be much more interesting to bring back the WWE King Of The Ring pay per-view with the winner going on to Brooklyn the next month to headline The Biggest Party of The Summer.