The big thing WWE had going for it with the King of the Ring tournament was that it has such a rich history. When you can point to winners such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret Hitman Hart, Triple H, Randy Savage, Harley Race, Edge, Brock Lesnar and Booker T., youve got a good basis to build upon. Thankfully, WWE smartly chose to play up this history this week, referencing numerous winners over and over. At one point, JBL was asked what a victory could mean for Nevilles career, and he responded that KOTR has been won by some of the most prominent stars in WWE history. Thats a pretty good nod to history right there. For a company that likes to ignore and sometimes rewrite its own history, when WWE decides to draw upon its history, it usually does a nice job of incorporating it.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
