Xavier Woods Wants To Prove Himself In A WWE King Of The Ring Tournament

Xavier Woods has been campaigning for King Of The Ring to return for months, even announcing himself as the first contestant in the as-yet-unannounced tournament. 

Woods was the first guest on Chris Denker's Into The Danger Zone Podcast, and the New Day man revealed he wants King Of The Ring to come back so he can prove himself within the industry. 

"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. 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," Woods said.

"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. 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," he continued.

"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."

Woods reportedly will get his wish soon and the tournament is set to return in October before the final at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia. 

H/T to Fightful