10 Ways WWE Should Book King Of The Ring 2021

For all its creative struggles, WWE do admittedly have a strong strike rate when it comes to booking tournaments, evident by the revered Cruiserweight Classic, Mae Young Classic and UK Championship events. Some would even suggest this is putting it lightly, because WWE truly are bloody brilliant at presenting a tournament.

Another fantastic example of this is the Worlds Collide event from 2019. This two-day show took place at the Royal Rumble Axxess events (later airing on the WWE Network), with the primary selling point being a 15-man single-elimination tournament contested between wrestlers from NXT, NXT UK and 205 Live. Won by The Velveteen Dream, besting Tyler Bate in the final, Dream went on to challenge and defeat Johnny Gargano for the North American Championship, as per the tournament's prize of a championship match of the winner’s choosing. Worlds Collide was a genius idea to spotlight a spate of both unheralded and top-flight stars from each respective brand, and this is an opportunity King Of The Ring can also afford.

Critically, large overtones of brand warfare should NOT be part of the brief if WWE booked a Worlds Collide KOTR event. Have Raw, Smackdown, NXT and NXT UK select four superstars to enter the tournament and let the wrestling do the talking. It would undoubtedly create mass intrigue on the main basis of never-before-seen matchups, such as Cesaro vs Timothy Thatcher, Big E vs Bronson Reed and Ricochet vs Ilja Draganov.