WWE King of The Ring Finals Confirmed

Xavier Woods defeated Jinder Mahal on this week's Monday Night Raw in the second semifinal match of this year's King of the Ring tournament. The 11-time tag team champion will now take on Finn Balor at Crown Jewel with the crown, cape, throne and scepter on the line. Woods beat "The Modern-Day Maharaja" by enduring his Khalas finisher then hitting his top-rope elbow drop from across the ring onto the former WWE Champion. Woods has talked about how much the King of the Ring has meant to him for years and released several fiery video promos ahead of this year's tournament

"Seeing things dealing with the medieval times and the medieval era and anything that has those kinds of vibes, there's usually a situation where the king is like, challenged to a fight or somebody wants to like challenge or authority, whatever. The king selects a champion to fight for him," Woods said in a recent interview with the Into The Danger Zone podcast. "That tells me champions don't have kings. But kings have champions. Making kings have more power than the champion, a champion works for a king, a king works for no one. Think about the long, long, long, long lineage of people that have held the Heavyweight Championship that's a lot. Even to this point, the Universal Championship. That's a lot of people.

"To me, the crown is a representation of passing the test. The Heavyweight Championship is a representation of climbing the mountain and beating the person on top, extremely important. As an academic. I want to be tested. I want my test, my Scantron, to do my essay. Let me present in front of the class, test me. Test me so I can know if I will pass or fail, so I know," he continued. "I don't necessarily think that I've earned anything because I have yet to be tested in the way that I feel a king would be tested. That's why I want it so bad. Because, yeah, it's cool to have the crown and do a gimmick and all this stuff with it. But on a deeper note as like a human as Austin Watson, I want that test so that I can know. So I've talked all this stuff about King of the Ring and all this stuff. But if I went out and just underperformed. Alright, cool. I know now and I'll shut up. But like, you want a draw? That to me is it. Winning one match? Anybody can win one match on a given day, winning a full tournament on one night? That's not something that happens at random to anyone."

Check out the updated lineup for Crown Jewel below:

  • WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar
  • WWE Championship: Big E vs. Drew McIntyre
  • SmackDown Women's Championship: Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks
  • Raw Tag Team Championships: RK-Bro vs. AJ Styles & Omos
  • Goldberg vs. Big E (No Holds Barred)
  • Edge vs. Seth Rollins (Hell in a Cell)
  • King of the Ring Final (Finn Balor vs. Xavier Woods)
  • Queen's Crown Final (Zelina Vega vs. Shayna Baszler/Doudrop)
  • Mansoor vs. Mustafa Ali
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