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WWE has been teasing a new King of the Ring tournament for a little while now. Baron Corbin and Shinsuke Nakamura fought over the old crown for a month, and Xavier Woods has been aching for a chance to win it should the tournament return.
In fact, several WWE Superstars have been talking about it on social media, and when that happens it's usually because there's a plan involved. The entire women's division was tweeting and posting photoshopped pictures of themselves holding tag titles for about a year before it was revealed WWE were bringing those back. This is what they do.
But if we're going to do a King of the Ring...why not do a Queen of the Ring? Seriously, we've done the Women's Royal Rumble, Hell in a Cell matches, Elimination Chamber matches and everything else under the sun. NXT even did something similar with the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic this year, introducing a women's version.
It wouldn't be the first time that we've come close to this idea either. Rumors began swirling in 2019 that the tournament was a possibility, and supposedly we would have seen it had COVID-19 not engulfed the world last year.
If WWE bring back the KOTR Tournament, there's no reason not to do a QOTR as well. The question is, who should win it?
#5 WWE's Role Model adds another accolade to her résumé
Bayley was the MVP of the pandemic era in WWE, especially for SmackDown. She and Sasha Banks were in multiple segments every week, on nearly every show. RAW, NXT, SmackDown, they were there to make sure that they were front and center at all times.
Bayley's run with the SmackDown Women's Championship was brilliant. Who knew she had this other side to her? No one could've seen this coming from the Hugger. And yet, here we are. Bayley's one of the most hated WWE Superstars on the roster.
She had a great title run that ended with her heartbreaking betrayal of Sasha Banks before ultimately dropping the title to her former best friend at Hell in a Cell last year. Even though the feud continues, it doesn't seem like she'll be winning the title off of Bianca Belair any time soon. Given that, let's give her something else to do while she's waiting to be back on top.
I mean, Bayley's obnoxious laugh with that crown? A royal episode of Ding Dong, Hello? I want it.
#4 WWE RAW Superstar Eva Marie...kind of
WWE reintroduced Eva Marie to their fanbase this past month and I can already feel that pure hatred from some of you after seeing that name. Just hold on, let me explain. Eva Marie wouldn't be beating anyone. In fact, she wouldn't be involved in the tournament aside from "managing" the winner.
That's right, it's Doudrop. Doudrop has yet to be pinned on Monday Night RAW so far. She's dominated two former WWE Champions in Naomi and Asuka in impressive fashion.
However, anytime she wins, Eva Marie steals the spotlight and claims the win for herself. That's right, that's where we're going with this. Doudrop destroys everyone she faces in this tournament leading into the finals. Whoever she faces in that can have a longer match because, in case you don't know this, Doudrop is quite brilliant and more than capable of having a great match.
Every time Doudrop wins, have Eva take a microphone and claim victory for herself. However, when Doudrop wins the whole thing, pull the trigger. Eva goes on to say that she was the real winner all along and tries to sit on the throne WWE will definitely have brought out. Doudrop puts a stop to it, bulldozes Eva and places a crown on her head.
After that she grabs a mic, sits in the throne and says, "You're winner and new Queen of the Ring...Piper Niven."
#3 Send for The Man!
Wouldn't this be a fun way to bring one of the most over-superstars in WWE back? Introduce the Queen of the Ring Tournament, with the winner getting a shot at the RAW or SmackDown Women's Championship. Heck, Stephanie McMahon can start RAW off to make the announcement. Why not?
She has the entire women's roster on stage and reveals the tournament while kicking off the first match of the opening round. The first competitor, and this is important, needs to be someone fans are sure will go all the way to the finals. I'm talking about an established WWE Superstar, maybe even a former champion. Perhaps a member of the Four Horsewomen?
Come on, you'd go crazy if Charlotte was in the opening match and then Becky's music hit. Have Becky Lynch return to a live crowd, by surprise, and knock out one of the favorites to win the whole thing all in one night. Make it a big deal, make the tournament mean something and give Becky a major win upon her return.
Then go through the whole thing with Becky and just have her run the gauntlet. Crown her Queen of the Ring. Let's be honest, there aren't many that deserve it more than her. She's not just the greatest women's star in decades, she's one of the most popular superstars that WWE has had in ages.
#2 WWE NXT Women's Champion Raquel González
Remember when WWE used King of the Ring 2002 to turn a brand new star into a juggernaut? That was Brock Lesnar. I wonder how that worked out for him in the long run...
If WWE introduced a Queen of the Ring Tournament, there may not be a better use of it than to call someone up from NXT and have them run through all the competition. If that was the case, who should be the one to take the shot? Why not the woman who ended Io Shirai's 304-day reign. Why not the one responsible for ridding NXT of Rhea Ripley?
Raquel González has been a deadly force since aligning herself with Dakota Kai back in 2020.
González could run through the competition like a hot knife through butter, similar to what Lesnar did nineteen years ago. Instead of the F-5, though, it would be the Chingona Bomb laying waste to anyone that stood in her way.
#1 Queen of Spades...and the Ring
Look, Shayna Baszler needs to hit the reset button soon. She had a few WWE Tag Title runs with Nia Jax over the last year, but she should be doing so much more. She was, for my money, the greatest NXT Women's Champion of all time. When she came up to WWE's main roster, her first target was then RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch.
After that, she demolished five other competitors in the Elimination Chamber to move onto a WrestleMania match with Lynch. Sarah Logan, Ruby Riott, Natalya, Liv Morgan, and Asuka were all eliminated by The Queen of Spades, in that order. With that dominant victory, she seemed poised to rip the RAW Women's Title away from Lynch at Mania.
Unfortunately, it didn't pan out that way, and she's been in the mid-card ever since. Shayna Baszler deserves to be the top dog. The Queen of the Ring could give her a chance to bring back that once terrifying side of herself she had before she began playing with Alexa Bliss and Lilly.
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