{"id":243522,"date":"2026-05-26T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243522\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:30:09","slug":"wwe-news-aew-news-pro-wrestling-backstage-news-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243522\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1101\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HJNgrwKWQAAma5G.jpeg\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image lazy\" alt=\"king and queen of the ring\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  data-\/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The King of the Ring and Queen of the Ring tournaments will begin on the June 1 episode of WWE Raw.<\/p>\n<p>WWE made the announcement on Monday\u2019s Raw.<\/p>\n<p>No competitors were announced for the tournament, but LA Knight said he was throwing his hat in the ring, hoping to earn a shot at Roman Reigns and the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In past years, the winners of the King and Queen tournaments have gone on to challenge for one of the two world championships at SummerSlam.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the current lineup for next Monday\u2019s Raw:<\/p>\n<p>WWE Raw (6\/1)<\/p>\n<p>King of the Ring tournament begins<br \/>\nQueen of the Ring tournament begins<\/p>\n<p>Fans can find Fightful\u2019s coverage of WWE Raw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/wrestling\/wwe-raw-results-5-25-2026-penta-vs-jevon-evans-roman-reigns-jacob-fatu-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by clicking here<\/a>. Check out the post-show podcast for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FY156DD8EVU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King of the Ring and Queen of the Ring tournaments will begin on the June 1 episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-243522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}