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To do the job to photographers, having exploding cameras, welcome to the history of the King of the Ring, 1993, right here on the wrestling history channel.

I'm Seafall, and boy, we have a show for you today because the 1993 King of the Ring, some people love, some people hate, and we'll

discuss the historical facts all around this event. And one of the big ones is around this time,

WCW has expanded its pay-per-views. No longer are they sitting on just Halloween Havoc and Starcades

and Superbrawl and things of that nature?

They keep adding more and adding more and adding more.

Well, suddenly, WWE only has Roy Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, the Big Four.

Traditionally, we've been used to this.

But now the WWF has realized, whoops, we are losing some of our paper review buy rates to WCW.

So let's up the ante.

So he add King of the Ring 9-193 to the pay-review lineup, starting this sort of the big four, I guess the Big Five.

Up until 2002, King of the Ring was a annual paper review and people really looked forward

to it because if you weren't watching early WWF, we weren't really seeing tournaments on

television that much.

We got to see the wrestling classic, which is the second ever WWF pay-per-view, have a 16-man tournament.

WrestleMania 4 had a tournament for the vacated world title,

but reality, tournaments weren't a big thing.

And now it's a pay-per-view.

And I really enjoyed having another event to watch as a kid, as an adult,

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