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The 2021 Queen's Crown was the inaugural edition of the Queen's Crown tournament. Consisting of eight female wrestlers, four each from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament was divided into two brackets, one for each brand, and the winners of each bracket faced each other in the final. The inaugural tournament began on the October 8 episode of ''SmackDown'' and continued to be held across episodes of '']'' and ''SmackDown''. It concluded at the ] ] and ] event on October 21, 2021. In the final, SmackDown's ] defeated Raw's ] to become the inaugural winner.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Currier |first1=Joseph |title=KOTR, QUEEN'S CROWN TOURNAMENT MATCHES SET FOR WWE SMACKDOWN |url=https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/kotr-queens-crown-tournament-matches-set-wwe-smackdown-355651 |website=] |access-date=October 9, 2021 |date=October 7, 2021}}</ref> The 2021 Queen's Crown was the inaugural edition of the Queen's Crown tournament. Consisting of eight female wrestlers, four each from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament was divided into two brackets, one for each brand, and the winners of each bracket faced each other in the final. The inaugural tournament began on the October 8 episode of ''SmackDown'' and continued to be held across episodes of '']'' and ''SmackDown''. It concluded at the ] ] and ] event on October 21, 2021. In the final, SmackDown's ] defeated Raw's ] to become the inaugural winner.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Currier |first1=Joseph |title=KOTR, QUEEN'S CROWN TOURNAMENT MATCHES SET FOR WWE SMACKDOWN |url=https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/kotr-queens-crown-tournament-matches-set-wwe-smackdown-355651 |website=] |access-date=October 9, 2021 |date=October 7, 2021}}</ref>
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The 2024 Queen of the Ring will be the second edition of the Queen of the Ring tournament. Consisting of sixteen female wrestlers, eight each from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament is divided into two brackets, one for each brand, and the winners of each bracket faced each other in the final. The tournament will be began on the May 6 episode of '']'' and will becontinued to be held across episodes of ''Raw'' and '']''. It will be concluded at the ] ] and ] event on May 25, 2024.

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Revision as of 20:21, 4 May 2024

Recurring professional wrestling tournament by WWE This article is about the women's professional wrestling tournament held by WWE. For the royal crown that was a part of the Polish Crown Jewels, see Queen's Crown.

The Queen of the Ring tournament (previously known as Queen's Crown) is a women's professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held by WWE, a Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion. Established in 2021, the prize for winning the tournament is earning the moniker of "Queen of the Ring" (previously "Queen") and the inaugural winner was Zelina Vega. It is the female version of WWE's long-standing King of the Ring tournament for male wrestlers.

Like the King of the Ring tournament, female wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions participate. The inaugural tournament, consisting of eight female wrestlers evenly divided between the brands, began in October 2021 and culminated at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view and livestreaming event. A dedicated event was to be held in 2023 in conjunction with the men's tournament, but it was cancelled. However, it was rescheduled for 2024 titled King and Queen of the Ring.

History

In 1985, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, at that time known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), established the King of the Ring tournament as a men's single-elimination tournament, the winner of which is crowned the "King of the Ring". In 2016, the "Women's Evolution" began in WWE, where the promotion began to treat their female wrestlers on an equal level as the men. In the years following this, WWE introduced female versions of matches that were originally only contested by male wrestlers—such as the Royal Rumble match and Money in the Bank ladder match. In October 2021, WWE established a female counterpart to the King of the Ring tournament, called the Queen's Crown tournament, held between wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The inaugural tournament was announced to be held simultaneously with the 2021 King of the Ring tournament.

In March 2023, WWE scheduled an event titled King and Queen of the Ring, which would have been a dedicated event for both the men's and women's tournaments, but on April 13, it was revealed that these plans were scrapped. Fightful later reported that WWE did not have plans to reschedule King and Queen of the Ring for later that year, but the event could possibly be used for a future Saudi Arabian show. On April 7, 2024, during night two of WrestleMania XL, WWE announced plans to go ahead with the King and Queen of the Ring event in Saudi Arabia at the Jeddah Super Dome in Jeddah, officially changing the name of the tournament to Queen of the Ring. It was scheduled to be held on May 25, 2024.

Queen gimmick

Similar to the King of the Ring tournament, the prize for winning the Queen's Crown tournament is earning the title of "Queen", though unlike the King of the Ring tournament, the winner is simply called "Queen" instead of "Queen of the Ring". As several King of the Ring winners have taken on a king's gimmick with varying degrees of indulgence, inaugural Queen's Crown winner Zelina Vega adopted a queen's gimmick and began to refer to herself as Queen Zelina. She began wearing a crown, a cape, and carrying a scepter, while speaking and acting in a regal manner, though acting more like a tyrannical queen due to Vega portraying a heel. After taking a brief hiatus in mid-2022, Vega returned in October and dropped the queen gimmick.

2021 tournament

Queen's Crown (2021)
The inaugural Queen's Crown tournament winner Zelina Vega, who became known as Queen Zelina
Tournament information
SportProfessional wrestling
Location
DatesOctober 8, 2021–October 21, 2021
Tournament
format(s)		Single elimination tournament
Participants8
Final positions
ChampionZelina Vega
Runner-upDoudrop
Tournament statistics
Matches played7
← First2024 →

The 2021 Queen's Crown was the inaugural edition of the Queen's Crown tournament. Consisting of eight female wrestlers, four each from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament was divided into two brackets, one for each brand, and the winners of each bracket faced each other in the final. The inaugural tournament began on the October 8 episode of SmackDown and continued to be held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown. It concluded at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view and livestreaming event on October 21, 2021. In the final, SmackDown's Zelina Vega defeated Raw's Doudrop to become the inaugural winner.

Bracket

Quarterfinals
SmackDown (October 8)
Raw (October 11) 		Semifinals
SmackDown (October 15)
Raw (October 18) 		Final
Crown Jewel
(October 21)
         
Zelina Vega Pin
Toni Storm 2:10
Zelina Vega Pin
SmackDown
Carmella 2:40
Liv Morgan 1:40
Carmella Pin
Zelina Vega Pin
Doudrop 5:55
Dana Brooke 1:25
Shayna Baszler Pin
Shayna Baszler 2:45
Raw
Doudrop Pin
Doudrop Pin
Natalya 3:00

2024 tournament

Queen of the Ring (2024)
Tournament information
SportProfessional wrestling
Location
DatesMay 6, 2024–May 25, 2024
Tournament
format(s)		Single elimination tournament
Participants16
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
← 2021

The 2024 Queen of the Ring will be the second edition of the Queen of the Ring tournament. Consisting of sixteen female wrestlers, eight each from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament is divided into two brackets, one for each brand, and the winners of each bracket faced each other in the final. The tournament will be began on the May 6 episode of Raw and will becontinued to be held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown. It will be concluded at the King and Queen of the Ring pay-per-view and livestreaming event on May 25, 2024.

Pierwsza runda
(Raw, May 6)
(SmackDown, May 10) 		Ćwierćfinały
(Raw, May 13)
(SmackDown, May 17) 		Półfinały
(Raw, May 20)
(SmackDown, May 24) 		Finał
(King and Queen of the Ring, May 25)
        
Zoey Stark
Ivy Nile
 
 
Shayna Baszler
Zelina Vega
 
Raw
 
Lyra Valkyria
Asuka
 
 
Iyo Sky
Natalya
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SmackDown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

List of Winners

# Year Winner Times won Finals date Runner-up Finals location Ref.
1 2021 Zelina Vega 1 October 21, 2021 Doudrop Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2 2024 TBD — May 25, 2024 TBD Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Reception

The Queen's Crown tournament was heavily criticized by fans for not being on equal ground with the men's King of the Ring tournament. The length of the tournament's first six matches were a combined 13 minutes and 40 seconds, equaling an average of roughly two minutes and 15 seconds per match. This was in stark contrast to the first six matches of the King of the Ring tournament, where none were shorter than eight minutes.

References

  1. WWE (October 2, 2021). "HERE WE GO!! #SmackDown" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. Heydorn, Zack (October 1, 2021). "WWE announces Queen's Crown and King of the Ring tournaments". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on October 2, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  3. Rose, Bryan (October 1, 2021). "WWE announces King of the Ring, Queen's Crown tournaments". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Archived from the original on October 2, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  4. Lambert, Jeremy (April 13, 2023). "WWE Changes 'WWE King & Queen Of The Ring' PLE To 'WWE Night Of Champions'". Fightful. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  5. Brennan, Corey (June 10, 2023). "WWE Keeping King And Queen Of The Ring For A Future Saudi Arabia Show". BodySlam.net. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
  6. ^ Tessier, Colin (April 7, 2024). "WWE To Hold 5/24 SmackDown And WWE King And Queen Of The Ring PLE In Saudi Arabia". Fightful. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  7. Powell, Jason (October 25, 2021). "10/25 WWE Raw Results: Powell's live review of the "season premiere" with the new post draft roster, fallout from WWE Crown Jewel". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
  8. Powell, Jason (October 7, 2022). "10/07 WWE Friday Night Smackdown results: Powell's review of the season premiere, Gunther vs. Sheamus for the Intercontinental Championship, Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns and Logan Paul meet face to face, Solo Sikoa vs. Ricochet". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
  9. Currier, Joseph (October 7, 2021). "KOTR, QUEEN'S CROWN TOURNAMENT MATCHES SET FOR WWE SMACKDOWN". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
  10. ^ Powell, Jason (October 8, 2021). "10/08 WWE Friday Night Smackdown results: Powell's review of Rey Mysterio vs. Sami Zayn in a King of the Ring tournament match, Liv Morgan vs. Carmella in a Queens Crown tournament match, contract signing for Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks at WWE Crown Jewel". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
  11. ^ Powell, Jason (October 11, 2021). "10/11 WWE Raw Results: Powell's live review of Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair vs. Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks, WWE Champion Big E and Drew McIntyre meet face to face, King of the Ring and Queen's Crown opening round matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  12. ^ Powell, Jason (October 15, 2021). "10/15 WWE Friday Night Smackdown results: Powell's review of the supersized edition with Brock Lesnar, Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks in a non-title match, Finn Balor vs. Sami Zayn in a KOTR semifinal match, Carmella vs. Zelina Vega in a Queen's Crown semifinal match, Sonya Deville vs. Naomi". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 19, 2021.
  13. ^ Powell, Jason (October 18, 2021). "10/18 WWE Raw Results: Powell's live review of Charlotte Flair vs. Bianca Belair for the Raw Women's Championship, Shayna Baszler vs. Doudrop in a Queen's Crown semifinal match, Xavier Woods vs. Jinder Mahal in a KOTR semifinal match, final hype for Crown Jewel". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 19, 2021.
  14. ^ Powell, Jason (October 21, 2021). "WWE Crown Jewel results: Powell's live review of Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship, Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks vs. Bianca Belair for the Smackdown Women's Championship, Big E vs. Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship, Edge vs. Seth Rollins in a Hell in a Cell match, Goldberg vs. Bobby Lashley in a No Holds Barred match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  15. Casey, Connor (October 19, 2021). "WWE's Queen's Crown Tournament Has Been Alarmingly Short". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
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