Former WWE star Wade Barrett (real name Stu Bennett), recently spoke with WrestleZone Radio to promote his upcoming film: Vengeance. During the interview he spoke on a wide variety of topics. We already covered his thoughts on his ‘Bad News Barrett‘ character and the WWE’s missed opportunity. The next topic he spoke about was the ‘King Barrett’ character.
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Wade won the 2015 King of The Ring Tournament after defeating Neville in the finals. He adopted the ‘King Barrett’ persona that he used until he left the company back several months ago.
He spoke about the minimal effort put into the character by the WWE in the planning for the King of the Ring tournament and his booking afterwards:
“It was thrown together very last minute. I think we did the quarter finals the week before and then we came back the next week and did the actual semi-finals and the finals on a one hour special on the WWE Network. Probably about forty minutes before the show went live we didn’t even know who was winning the tournament. We knew that it was going to be me and Neville in the finals. It all honesty, a complete lack of thought had gone into it. I was given Booker T’s old outfit from ten years earlier. Obviously it didn’t look great. There was no follow up to it with a storyline or anything like that. If it was meant as an attempt to push me or get me over I think there really wasn’t any effort put in from the word, Go” (Source: Wrestlezone Radio).
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Not surprising. Just felt like the tournament was thrown together with no real long term planning. Let us know what you think in the comment section below!