Sometimes it seems like WWE has more women on their main roster than they know what to do with, but their favorite thing to do with them is always whatever they haven’t done with them before: the first Women’s Money In The Bank Ladder Match, the first Women’s Royal Rumble, the first Women’s TLC Match, and of course their first all-women PPV, WWE Evolution, which happened back in October.
Now it seems WWE is looking for a new first for 2019, while also considering the possibility of their second women-only PPV. According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is talking about reviving their King of the Ring tournament as Queen of the Ring, making it a women’s singles tournament that might get its own PPV. The original King of the Ring started as a tournament in 1985, and was its own PPV from 1993 to 2002. It returned as a Network Special in 2015, but that never led to anything more.
Obviously WWE already has a women’s singles tournament they’ve done two years in a row, the Mae Young Classic, but this would be considerably different from that, since it would feature women already on the main roster, rather than NXT newcomers and guests from outside the company.
It would also lead to the crowning of a Queen, which makes me hope Charlotte doesn’t enter, because that would make things awfully predictable. On the other hand, maybe Becky will win and then declare herself The King. Jokes aside, the best way to do a tournament like this would be to leave out the women at the top of the card (they can have title matches on the show) and use it to elevate women on their way up, like Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, and Ember Moon.
