KOTR

I have recently been re-watching the old King of the Rings. I know you’re not a fan of this PPV, but considering the PPVs are co-branded now, I don’t understand why they never dust this one off. Like the NHL and the NCAA, the WWE could create a "bracket challenge" on its website for fans to complete and possibly get someone to sponsor it, offering a prize for a perfect bracket and making some advertising revenue.

I also feel like it would generate the possibility of having interesting co-branded matches in the tournament itself. It would also give the WWE a big three for the summer with Money in the Bank, KOTR and SummerSlam, and honestly I would swap KOTR for Extreme Rules any day. The WWE could use the post-WrestleMania season to come up with qualification matches and actually explain why Superstars are the seed that they are in the tournament rather than throwing them together randomly. I also liked the stipulation in 2002 where the winner was No. 1 contender for SummerSlam, which would actually give them a month (or two months if they put KOTR back to June and MITB back to July) to build up a marquee match for the summer.

​They could, but history has shown that tournaments just don’t draw on PPV, because you can’t really advertise a main event ahead of time unless you’ve got a strong non-tournament match to feature. Of course, that’s not a consideration these days, and given their love of tournaments as of late, I think it could work again, as long as you keep it REASONABLE with 8 people. ​