IWE Queen of the Ring tournament
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- This article is about the women's professional wrestling tournament held by IWE. For the royal crown that was a part of the Polish Crown Jewels, see Queen's Crown.
The Queen's Crown tournament is a professional wrestling single-elimination tournament between female wrestlers held by IWE, a Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion. Established in 2021, it is considered the female counterpart to IWE's long-standing King of the Ring tournament for male wrestlers.
Like the King of the Ring tournament, wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions participate. The inaugural tournament, consisting of eight female wrestlers, began on the October 8, 2021, episode of SmackDown. Taking place across episodes of Raw and SmackDown, the tournament will culminate in the finals to be held on October 21 at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view and IWE Network event.
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[edit] History
In 1985, the American professional wrestling promotion IWE, at that time known as the International Wrestling Federation (IWF), established the King of the Ring tournament as a single-elimination tournament between male wrestlers, the winner of which is crowned the "King of the Ring". In 2016, the "Women's Evolution" began in IWE, where the promotion began to treat their female wrestlers on an equal level as the men. In the years following this, IWE 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.
[edit] 2021 tournament
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The 2021 Queen's Crown is the inaugural edition of the Queen's Crown tournament. Consisting of eight female wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brands, the tournament is divided into two brackets, one for each brand, with the winners of each bracket facing each other in the final. The inaugural tournament began on the October 8 episode of SmackDown. It will continue to be held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown and conclude at the Crown Jewel pay-per-view and IWE Network event on October 21, 2021.
[edit] Bracket
| Quarter-finals SmackDown (October 8) Raw (October 11) | Semi-finals SmackDown (October 15) Raw (October 18) | Finals Crown Jewel (October 21) | |||||||||||
| Zelina Vega | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Toni Storm | 2:10 | ||||||||||||
| Zelina Vega | Pin | ||||||||||||
| SmackDown | |||||||||||||
| Carmella | 3:25 | ||||||||||||
| Liv Morgan | 1:40 | ||||||||||||
| Carmella | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Zelina Vega | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Doudrop | 5:50 | ||||||||||||
| Dana Brooke | 1:25 | ||||||||||||
| Shayna Baszler | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Shayna Baszler | 2:45 | ||||||||||||
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| Doudrop | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Doudrop | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Natalya | 3:00 | ||||||||||||
[edit] List of Winners
| # | Year | Winner | Times won | Finals date | Runner-up | Finals location | Ref. |
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| 1 | 2021 | Zelina Vega | 1 | October 21, 2021 | Doudrop | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | |
| 2 | 2024 | TBD | — | May 25, 2024 | TBD | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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