7 Ways To Make WWE Kings And Queens Matter Again
2. Authority Figure
Yes, WWE authority figures are a tremendously overdone trope
that very rarely works. But there’s an avenue here for Kings and Queens.
We’ve already seen how Zelina Vega is walking around making “royal proclamations,” and Xavier Woods has done this as well. If you’re going to have these wrestlers adopt these personae, why not allow them to back it up with actual power?
Give the King and Queen the power to make matches. You could limit it – say, you can book one match per show, or only book yourself to have one PPV main event – otherwise it could be no holds barred, so a runaway royal books themselves in repeated title matches with the deck stacked against them.
WWE seemed to be moving in this direction back in 2008 when William Regal was Raw GM and won the King of the Ring tournament, but an untimely suspension derailed all of that. But imagine Zelina having agency over women’s division matches and booking an adversary in handicap matches in advance of her bout with them.
Given how WWE loves its authority figures and how dull and ineffective Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville have largely been, why not let your royals take the reins for a bit?