King of the Ring LIVE
 

Who else is watching this?

They made it seem like a big deal/PPV event with that opening video and that awesome voice over guy they use for PPVs.

And all three of these matches should be good.

Wonder if they're gonna have a filler match between the rounds like they usually do with one night tournaments or if the winner of Barrett vs Truth is just gonna stay in the ring and have back-to-back matches. Seems a little unfair.

Going to attempt to watch this on shitty airport wifi right now in between flights. We'll see how this goes.

I think this is only an hour long. I wouldn't be surprised if they only had the tournament matches.

Seamus has been king already what.. 3/4 of the entrants are from UK..

KING BARRETT needs no rest, only Bull Hammers.

lets go Rtruth

Currently streaming in HD. Well played, McCarran. For now.

Would not be COMPLETELY surprised if R-Truth wins and just uses being king as a comedy gimmick of some sort. It's not like they invested much hype into this tournament.

They continue to forget Mabel and Billy Gunn. BURIED.

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I believe.

Bad new Barret will win.. sigh

Ambrose: "So you couldn't have done THAT on Raw, Ziggler. You dumb fuck."

And now I'm here to collect. You're going to take what you owe me out of my ass.

Wait...

Oh damn.

Now it's a blood feud.

OUCH!

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There goes the chances of King R-Truth. Can't see any way they do a Neville-Truth finals.

Actually like that, very cool that Sheamus didn't just run away, but went back angry, nice touch. Makes it seem like things are getting out of control. Simple booking, the little things, but makes me want to see the feud.

KANG TRUTH~!

CONQUEROR OF SPIDERS AND THEY CHIRREN

R-Truth is just a little ROCKET FUEL IN THE ROCKET SHIP away from being the 2015 version of Ultimate Warrior.

It seems pretty clear Barrett will win this match, but Truth is pretty entertaining right now.

"Truth is America's last hope"

That's a thing to take out of context.

NOW WHO WILL STOP THE SPIDERS?

I'm fine with either finalist being King.

"Referee couldn't see it"

The ref was looking directly at it!

Do ppl like Bad News Bears Barrett, is he a good heel, just seems mostly generic

Can they shut the fuck up about spiders now?

Verne :(

They've got a good 15 minutes or so now for another match or just a shit ton of filler.

That sounds exactly like what a spider would say.

I'm on to you.

Just about all heels not named Brock Lesnar are generic in the way they're booked. Barrett himself is pretty good though. If they actually followed through with the character when he came back with those badass street fighter vignettes instead of having him instantly become the typical heel pussy character a week later, he would have been great.

Did Ziggler just threaten to kick his own arse?

Yes.

He's so enraged by the affront to his dignity on Sunday, he's a danger even to himself!

I like that Neville continued to sell the ribs during his entrance instead of just pretending that he was magically healed by the twenty minute break.

It's not like this is WWE 2K15.

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OFF WITH HIS HEAD.

Yet another accolade for Barrett, which if tradition is any indication, will lead to him jobbing harder than ever.

I'll keep hope alive for at least a week.

All hail King BNB.

ALL HAIL KING BARRETT!

King Bad News Barrett

Guy's stacking up the gimmicks.

ALL HAIL KING BAD NEWS!

I really like these little live specials they do on the Network, this and Rusev/Sheamus from a while ago, and probably a couple others.

It's a nice value add for the Network, and I mean, shit, they're already at the arena for tapings. I hope they keep doing more like this.

All right, I'm going to go get ready to stand in line to cram onto a (hopefully mostly empty) metal tube shooting through the sky.

If you don't hear from me again, allow me to leave you with this last, parting wisdom:

SlickyTrickyDamon is a god damn spider; don't trust him.

Never did

Ended up missing the show. Who faced Barrett in the finals?

Neville

Neville.

Nice. Hopefully the crown actually leads to something meaningful for Barrett.

If they did little specials every couple months or so with a gimmick that doesn't necessarily strongly follow storylines, I might enjoy those more than the stuff that does at this point in time.

They should bring back Battle Bowl as a network special though they'd have to make it more than one hour and probably wouldn't be able to just film it before Smackdown.

I liked the start to the show. It made the King of the Ring seem important. I still find it a bit odd that R-Truth got to advance. I'd probably enjoy things more if they had the KOTR exist within a little bubble. I'd probably have had Cesaro in there instead of Truth or something. New Day could have attacked him in a backstage segment to advance that storyline.

The brawl between Ziggler and Sheamus really advanced things, but the terrible booking on RAW means Dean Ambrose has to get involved or look like a pussy. I guess damage control could have Ziggler and Ambrose fight on television with someone taking issue with Ambrose and setting up a match with him at Payback. Whatever.

Now that Barrett is king, I think they need to focus now on giving him some spotlight. Don't just let this fall wayside like Cesaro's Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal win did. Barrett should open up RAW next week and talk about how he is now immortalized and wants to be the first British World Champion in WWE history. Scrapping together a random match for Payback, how about Sheamus vs. Barrett vs. Ziggler vs. Ambrose -- Barrett against the three guys who all have a claim to being screwed in the tournament.

Holy shit I can't believe I called Neville's run. Awesome show, glad they did this.

DAKINGOFNANORTH

Just watched this... some good matches... don't agree with Bad News Barrett winning... feel like he is at the point of his career where "nothing can help him anymore" and he should just be written off as a "lost cause", by which I mean continue to just have good mid-card matches that don't mean anything forever....

Neville really could have used the win to give himself some credibility on the main roster.

I love BNB, so I'm cool with the result, but I think that the real MVP of this tournament was Sheamus.

You're so serious!!!