A proposed WWE King of the Ring 2014

Sadly, the WWE has done away with a father’s day, June tradition that was a King of the Ring PPV. Who wants to see the same guy wrestle 3 times right? To make a lesser star into a bigger star if not a Summer Slam contender. The WWE has tried to resurrect the King of the Ring as a one night show on RAW with stars like Sheamus, William Regal and Booker T winning the tournaments. Since it has been 4 years since the last King of the Ring, here is my idea for a proposed King of the Ring tournament.

1. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: ALEXANDER RUSEV vs KOFI KINGSTON
2. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: BIG E LANGSTON vs RYBACK
3. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: JACK SWAGGER vs RVD
4. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: ANTONIO CEASARO vs CHRISTIAN
5. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: DAMIEN SANDOW vs CODY RHODES
6. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: DOLPH ZIGGLER vs CURTIS AXEL
7. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: WADE BARRETT vs GOLDUST
8. KING OF THE RING QUALIFYING MATCH: SHEAMUS vs ADR

I’ve tried to come up with interesting matches here with feuds, and some stylistic matches. Alexander loves to defeat black guys. Big E vs Ryback is your muscle power match. Swagger vs RVD is your current feud, clash of styles. Ceasaro vs Christian is your good technical match. Sandow and Rhodes have history. Ziggler needs a win. Goldust is there mostly for history. Sheamus and ADR are at the same level and have been for years. Sadly there is no Shield, Evolution or Wyatts. They don’t need the tournament. Of course Intercontinental and United States champions might not need anything going on either, but Sheamus is a former king of the ring.

1. KING OF THE RING QUARTER FINALS: ALEXANDER RUSEV vs BIG E LANGSTON
2. KING OF THE RING QUARTER FINALS: ANTONIO CEASARO vs JACK SWAGGER
3. KING OF THE RING QUARTER FINALS: DOLPH ZIGGLER vs DAMIEN SANDOW
4. KING OF THE RING QUARTER FINALS: WADE BARRETT vs SHEAMUS

Keeping with the running joke of Alexander taking on black guys, this is a muscle match. Ceasaro vs Swagger is your current feud. Ziggler vs Sandow is between two dark horse matches that could potentially win. Wade vs Sheamus is not only Intercontinental champ vs United States champ, but it is a former king of the ring and they match stylistically and have for years.

1. KING OF THE RING SEMI FINALS: WADE BARRETT vs DOLPH ZIGGLER
2. KING OF THE RING SEMI FINALS: ALEXANDER RUSEV vs ANTONIO CEASARO

Here you have your potential dark horse and two potential winners. Ceasaro is on a hot streak and so is Rusev who is very untested. If anyone can get a good match out of Rusev, it is Ceasaro, plus the giant swing on a dwarf giant will go far in terms of visuals.

• KING OF THE RING FINALS: WADE BARRETT vs ANTONIO CEASARO

There’s nothing like an oppressive British King to brutalize the WWE. Wade is already used to being chained to a podium, why not get chain Wade to a throne when he makes his proclamations? Give him lesser wrestlers (commoners) to lord over as his court or would that be too Nexus? While I don’t think Ceasaro would look good as a stereotypical king, he is a man that can benefit from winning a one night tournament. You’ll get to see three of his matches in one night. Ceasaro is on fire right now. It is your choice who goes over.

An idea for WWE developmental territories to beef up the wrestling industry and not just the WWE

Wrestling promotion TNA (Total Nonstop Action) picked up a developmental agreement with Ohio Valley Wrestling and WWE’s developmental territory FCW has told its television company that it is closing its doors. Rumor has it that FCW would be moved to Connecticut to be closer to the WWE and hopefully have more of a crowd at the television tapings. If this is true or not… I think that I have a better idea that will benefit the WWE and ultimately the wrestling industry which seems to be dwindling over the past few years compared to the rise of MMA.

WHAT THE WWE CURRENTLY HAS
Logically the WWE doesn’t even need a developmental territory when they can just scoop up anyone they want and put them on NXT or Superstars for a year before they make it to RAW or Smackdown. That keeps costs down while still training talent.

MY IDEAS
Start 4 territories or get an agreement going with 4 existing promotions. These territories need to be in big cities far away from one another. Let’s say New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. These are all in English speaking countries since the WWE is an English speaking company.

GETTING EYEBALLS AND SELLING TICKETS
Each company would have around 20 wrestlers and 3 of those would be WWE contracted employees, the WWE could send 2 or more developmental workers to each company, and on top of that, the WWE should send 1 midcarder to each company for a TV taping. These midcarders would be main eventers and given a chance to shine with these small companies. In the TV tapings they could work programs with the developmental guys to train them on regional TV. Imagine Dolph Ziggler vs Richie Steamboat in Los Angeles for a month. Jack Swagger vs Chris Hero in Toronto. Cody Rhodes vs Xavier Woods in New York. The TV tapings are for 3 – 4 weeks of TV. Have the WWE midcarder the star for that taping to get eyeballs and sell tickets. Then the next month shuffle the WWE midcarders that come in. Jack goes to Los Angeles, Dolph goes to London.

THE INVASIONS
Then if they want ratings… the Toronto one could invade the New York territory for a few months. Or the UK one could invade the Chicago territory. And yes European style and diversity are very important. I miss diversity in wrestling. It is so simple 4 developments in 3 countries to draw in 20 workers each. Let the promotions hire 18 guys and WWE could give them 1 dev talent and 1 midcarder per TV taping. 1 TV taping for 4 episodes per month. 2 storylines to follow with each show.

The companies could do once a year or once every 2 years.  The away team from a city better than yours comes in to threaten your home town babyfaces. Month one the heels go over, months two and three the home team wins. Then… you go to the other city and reverse the home and away teams. Home teams always win in the end. Like if WWE invaded WCW on WCW TV the fans would want WCW their prefered product to win. Plus you’d get a chance for your roster to practice heel and face. Away team is always heel even your squeaky clean faces in Los Angeles become heels in Toronto. So you know how is this guy as a heel without the guy’s character by flip-flopping him face heel face for the home territory.

THE NON WWE WORKERS
SInce you can’t have a company of 3+ WWE workers, the feeder company needs to have other guys and with the tagline of WWE developmental territory it would attract workers. With four feeder companies in 3 countries it would attract everyone in the country that wants to make it to the WWE. There are legends of guys living out of their car just to get the WWE to notice them working at the developmental territories. Canada has some great workers, so the WWE needs to have a territory there to make the tradition from Canadian wrestler to American sports entertainer go smoothly. London needs a territory to have a different WWE style and if William Regal and Fit Finley can make it in the WWE, then there can be other success stories. Since the WWE is so international, they need English countrymen the fans can cheer for. Someone that looks and sounds like them.

IN CONCLUSION
Look for a second part to this discussing how the WWE can saturate the industry with wrestlers to fill these feeder promotions if they don’t have their own training academies.

WWE Booking 3 months of RAW tag teams from low end talent.

RAW TAG TEAMS
– HAWKINS / PRIMO
– EVAN / KOFI
– RYDER / SANTINO
– OTUNGA / MCGILLICUTTY
– SHEFIELD / MASON
– REKS / MCINTYRE

I hear that Shefield and Mason are both injured… but this plan is pretty universal and doesn’t revolve around *now* so much as *anytime*.

Since the WWE doesn’t like tag teams that much… my ideas take minimum time. 5 minutes for everything with one -. No 20 minute barn burning tag matches… until people want to see them.

RAW 1
– Santino & Ryder are backstage. Santino understands Ryder has an Internet show, but if he wants it to be a smashing success like RAW, Ryder needs to have one man on there…
— That man? Santino!!! Tune in… But tonight… they have a match!
– McIntyre interrupts an interview at the tail end… He and Tyler Reks haven’t been on RAW in ages if ever…
— Tonight they’re gonna get noticed and stay on RAW.
— MATCH >> RYDER / SANTINO over OTUNGA / MACGILLICUTTY
— Post match attack from Tyler Reks / McIntyre destroy Ryder / Santino
– MATCH >> SWAGGER over KOFI with Vicki’s help

SUPERSTARS 1
– MATCH >> REKS over PRIMO
— Reks wins, McIntyre enters to beat him down and Hawkins runs in for the save.

SMACKDOWN 1

RAW 2
– US TITLE MATCH >> ZIGGLER over EVAN with Vicki’s help
— Ziggler wants a shot at Evan’s title.
– Santino / Ryder now have momentum. So they put everyone on notice… Z – Cobra is coming for you all!!!
— It is announced that next week there is a title shot. Santino / Ryder and Swagger / Ziggler.

SUPERSTARS 2
– MATCH >> MCINTYRE over HAWKINS by cheating
— Backstage before the match, Primo finds Hawkins and says thanks for last week, he’s got his back tonight.
— Reks & Primo are circling the ring. Ends in a big brawl after the match.

SMACKDOWN 2

RAW 3
– #1 CONTENDER TAG MATCH >> SWAGGER / ZIGGLER over RYDER / SANTINO with help of Vicki
— Ryder / Santino have a tag victory… Swagger / Ziggler have singles victories over the champs.
— Evan / Kofi come out and hold up the belts showing they’re on the line at the PPV.

SUPERSTARS 3
– MATCH >> PRIMO / HAWKINS over REKS / MCINTYRE by DQ
— Pre match backstage interview with Primo / Hawkins the only way to handle Reks / McIntyre is as a team.
— McIntyre gets caught cheating using brass knuckles or something
— Reks / McIntyre beat down Primo / Hawkins and Ryder / Santino run in for the save

SMACKDOWN 3

RAW 4
– MATCH >> supposed to be REKS / MCINTYRE vs RYDER / SANTINO
— Ryder / Santino don’t show… so Primo / Hawkins are sent out in their place
— MATCH >> PRIMO / HAWKINS over REKS / MCINTYRE
— Reks / McIntyre beat down Primo and Hawkins for winning
— Backstage, Ryder / Santino are found beat down video footage saw 2 men walking away…
– Interview with Swagger / Ziggler and its announced Vicki can’t be at ringside for their PPV title match.
— If Vicki comes down to rinside during the match Ziggler will be stripped of his title and both men will be suspended a month.
— Vicki says she’s a manager… how can she manage backstage???

SUPERSTARS 4

SMACKDOWN 4

PPV 1

– TAG TITLE MATCH >> EVAN / KOFI over JACK SWAGGER / ZIGGLER
— Vicki accompanies her guys to the ring and says the match hasn’t started yet.
— Match starts, the ref throws her out to have a clean match.
— This victory makes Evan / Kofi look strong
— Swagger / Ziggler’s story should be in single’s competition… above the tag division since Ziggler holds a single’s title

RAW 1
– MATCH >> REKS / MCINTYRE over RYDER / SANTINO by cheating
— Before the match Ryder / Santino are asked who attacked them. They didn’t see, they were attacked from behind… They’re not 100%
— Reks / McIntyre want a tag title match. They’re #1 contenders!
— Kofi / Evan come out and say Reks / McIntyre just won… but Primo / Hawkins beat them the week before, so shouldn’t Primo / Hawkins be #1 contenders?
— Primo / Hawkins come out. They challenge Evan / Kofi and it’s accepted for next week!
– MATCH >> EVAN over OTUNGA
— Push the flashy smiling babyface!
— Post match backstage with Otunga and Ryder who asks… how does it feel to go from top of the world… Harvard law degree, fiancé to Jennifer Hudson and having the tag titles to being at the bottom of the barrel… losing the title, teaming with McGillicutty and losing?
— How dare the Ryder ask that? He gets shoved down by Otunga!
— Next week they’ve got a tag match!!!

SUPERSTARS 1

SMACKDOWN 1

RAW 2
– TAG TITLE MATCH >> supposed to be EVAN / KOFI vs PRIMO / HAWKINS
— Before anyone goes to the ring… Evan and Kofi are found laid out injured, beaten and cannot compete… Reks / McIntyre say… What no tag champs no tag title match!!! Oh that’s too bad…
— Well Hawkins & Primo came there to fight someone title or not! Backstage brawl between the 2 teams.
– MATCH >> OTUNGA / MCGILLICUTTY over RYDER / SANTINO by cheating
— Pre match interview face to face. Z – Cobra meets McTunga. The cobra against… uh what’s your finisher again? Oh that’s right you have to finish a match. Zing. We’ll meet you in the ring.
— Heels go over. Then the faces get beat down.

SUPERSTARS 2

SMACKDOWN 2

RAW 3
– Evan / Kofi are interviewed and asked who attacked them. Was it Reks & McIntyre? No. The attackers were big… and wore face paint… Evan / Kofi challenge the 2 men to step up.
– Santino / Ryder segment. Ryder’s show is now #1 on the Internet. Thanks to Santino. Then they plug the new Z – Cobra T-shirt with Ryder and Santino on it.
– TAG TITLE MATCH >> EVAN / KOFI over PRIMO / HAWKINS
— After the match, the mystery attackers come out, a face painted, armband wearing, Shefield / Ryan.
— Shefield / Ryan boldly enter the ring; Evan / Kofi attack them but are destroyed. Primo / Hawkins are destroyed.
— Santino / Ryder run down to save… and are destroyed by this monstrous new team.
— Ryder’s thumbs are stomped. Santino’s cobra arm is beaten with a folding chair and tried to pull off the arm!

SUPERSTARS 3

SMACKDOWN 3

RAW 4
– Santino / Ryder & Evan / Kofi & Hawkins / Primo are mysteriously absent from RAW.
— Interviewers ask Otunga / McGillicutty if they fear they’ll be next. That’s not important… All they care about is their #1 contender’s match next week against Hawkins / Primo.
— Clips from last week’s tag division destruction are shown.

SUPERSTARS 4

SMACKDOWN 4

PPV 2

RAW 1
– Brief segment covering Ryder / Santino’s twitters from the hospital room… Hospital food isn’t so bad when you can wash it down with Long Island Ice Z. The Cobra is in a cast. How did they twitter when their thumbs are injured?
– #1 CONTENDERS TAG MATCH >> OTUNGA / MCGILLICUTTY over HAWKINS / PRIMO
— After the match, Shefield / Ryan’s music hits, Otunga / McGillicutty bail leaving Hawkins / Primo to get beat up.
– After that, Reks / McIntyre are backstage beating down Evan / Kofi as Reks / McIntyre wonder where’s their title shot??

SUPERSTARS 1

SMACKDOWN 1

RAW 2
– Segment with Ryder / Santino in the hospital in beds. With a hot nurse tending to them. The cobra has never been so poised to strike as it was seeing that nurse. The nurse gets harassed and asked how would she like a sip of the Long Island Ice Z? The nurse is not impressed.
— They will begin rehab later this week.
– MATCH >> REKS / MCINTYRE over HAWKINS / PRIMO by cheating
– TAG TITLE MATCH >> EVAN / KOFI over OTUNGA MCGILLICUTTY
— After the match, Reks / McIntyre ask Evan / Kofi for a title shot. It’s granted for next week!
— Shefield / Ryan’s music hits. They shove Reks / McIntyre out of the way and march down to the ring. Evan / Kofi are ready for a fight!
— Shefield / Ryan destroy Evan / Kofi. Raise their arms then march up the stage to Reks / McIntyre. Reks meets them with a punch while McIntyre runs. Reks is thrown off the stage!

SUPERSTARS 2

SMACKDOWN 2

RAW 3
– Santino / Ryder are rehabbing.
— The cobra is doing unique curls and cobra-ing a punching bag with Ryder behind it. Then Ryder is rehabbing by getting his iPhone and twittering. His thumbs need rehab. They are almost at 100%… but Ryder’s phone is only at 33% charge!!!
— They close the segment by getting serious. Shefield / Ryan, they’re coming for you at the PPV! There’s no hiding from Z – Cobra!
– TAG TITLE MATCH >> EVAN / KOFI over MCINTYRE / REKS
— Before the match, McIntyre is trying to make it up to Reks for bailing on him last week. Reks says they’re not cool, but since its for the title he’ll go along with it.
— McIntyre goes for a desperate tag… Reks drops off the apron. Reks didn’t forget about last week… McIntyre just gets beat up and pinned.

SUPERSTARS 3
– Tag title 4 way match is announced for RAW.
— Interview with Reks / McIntyre. They’ve buried the hatchet. It’s about the tag titles
— Interview with Hawkins / Primo say they’ve beaten two of the three teams, so they need to focus on one of those 2 teams, get the victory and win the titles.
— Interview with Otunga / McGillicutty who say they’re a step away from recapturing the gold and Otunga is back off the couch at home!
— Interview with Evan / Kofi who say they’ll do their talking in the ring!
— Pre match interview with Shefield / Ryan who are asked if they’ll interfere in the 4 way… The guys just walk away.

SMACKDOWN 3

RAW 4
– Interview with Ryder / Santino want NO DQ because they want to unleash unspeakable horrors on Shefield / Ryan.
— Commentators think Ryder / Santino don’t know what they’re in for!
– TAG TITLE 4 WAY MATCH >> EVAN / KOFI over OTUNGA / MCGILLICUTTY & HAWKINS / PRIMO & REKS / MCINTYRE
— Evan / Kofi go over clean… no interference from Shefield / Ryan.
— After the match, they cut to the back… of a commotion going on. There is a dressing room door with banging coming from the other side. In front of the door is a forklift. Santino is at the steering wheel. The forklift has a pallet and on it is Ryder. Santino lifts the pallet and Zack does a fist pump saying woo woo woo… you know it. Shefield  / Ryan are trapped in the dressing room.

SUPERSTARS 4

SMACKDOWN 4

PPV 3
– Interviewers ask Otunga / McGillicutty and Reks / McIntyre who will win the Shefield / Ryan and Ryder / Santino match. They all say Shefield / Ryan would win. What sort of a stupid question is that?
– MATCH >> SHEFIELD / RYAN over RYDER / SANTINO
— The other tag teams are kept off the card to put heat on this match.
— EMTs are ready with a stretcher… just incase
— Shefield / Ryan destroy them!
— Shefield / Ryan use the stretcher to beat up Ryder / Santino then destroy the stretcher so they can’t be stretched out.

IN CONCLUSION … after 3 months
RAW TAG TEAMS
– HAWKINS / PRIMO two nobodies become somebody as a face tag team.
– EVAN / KOFI look strong, going over plenty of tag teams without burning them all out.
– RYDER / SANTINO are comedic gold and do get a one up on a monster tag team.
– OTUNGA / MCGILLICUTTY had to take the fall as the former champions.
– SHEFIELD / MASON look incredibly strong by the end, but like with any monstrous push, it would end in months 4-6.
– REKS / MCINTYRE become a solid tag team with Reks as a monster and McIntyre os your classic heel.