Congratulations WWE, you brought back the King of the Ring tournament to completely crap all over it. There was a time when being King of the Ring was a big deal. Bret Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Edge, Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar and Booker T all rode the KOTR tournament victory to bigger and better things. But King Barrett? He gets to lose to a comedy performer whos afraid of spiders and heights, R-Truth. To put this in perspective, imagine Angle fresh off his 2000 KOTR victory and losing several times to Naked Mideon. Or Lesnar being beaten by Steven Richards in 2002. Sunday, Barrett lost to the man he described as the Village Idiot, R-Truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NowXxEXvfg Seriously, unless King Barrett is going to recruit a court and start on a winning streak, this gimmick (the entire KOTR deal, not just King Barrett) needs to die on the vine, fast. What is the point of crowning Barrett king if there literally are no plans for him other than to lose matches? Since the tournament, Barrett is now 4-7 in televised matches, losing to Truth, Dolph Ziggler, Neville and Roman Reigns, and two of those victories have come against the hapless Jack Swagger.
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.
