The Katz Files – Arnie Katz
King of the Ring
The Kingfish Arnie Katz offers some thoughts on the King of the Ring tournament held on the 4/21 episode of PAW
Although a few folks in the US get dreamy-eyed over Princess Diane and other royal celebrities, most Americans cling to the country’s traditional distrust and dislike of monarchy. There are no kings in the United States, it is sometimes said.
What a shame we can’t say the same about the WWE!
The last thing WWE or its fans need right now is another King of the Ring. Wasn’t a couple of years of “All hail King Booker!’ enough for anyone? I sometimes think the desire to escape the gimmick, which got old in about two months, was a partial motivation for Booker T’s switch to TNA.
You can almost see the bookers’ mental wheels turning (and squeaking). His name is William Regal, so let’s make him king. This is particularly unfortunate, since they have previously presented Regal as everything from a backstreet brawler to a Knight. He really hasn’t even gotten in the groove as the General Manager character.
The tournament itself proved a mix of good and bad. The matches between Matt Hardy and CM Punk and Chris Jericho and CM Punk were solid “B” contests. Yet for some unknown and mystifying reason, the bookers tossed off two of the four opening round matches with no-heat gimmicks.
Putting Hornswoggle in the tournament was not a way to build interest and credibility. Surely, with all three rosters at the show, they could’ve found a way to make all the matches entertaining.
Maybe now that William Regal is king, some of the wrestlers can be organized into a patriotic group that aims to remove the despot. And if we are really lucky, they succeed at the May pay per view and we won’t have to watch and listen to a lot of meaningless posturing by the newly crowned king.
That’s it for today. I’ll be back tomorrow with another installment of the Internets fast-rising daily wrestling column.
– Arnie Katz
Crossfire4@xox.net
(4/22/08)
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