It was the first of ten King of the Ring events produced as pay-per-views; an 11th exclusively aired on the company's livestreaming service, the WWE Network.

He was attacked by Jerry Lawler during a coronation ceremony, which led to a feud that lasted more than two years.

These early tournaments were held as special non-televised house shows in an effort to boost attendance at these events.

[1] In 1993, the WWF began to produce the King of the Ring tournament as a self-titled pay-per-view (PPV).

The inaugural PPV, which featured the seventh tournament, took place on June 13, 1993, at the Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio.

Lex Luger was the first wrestler to qualify, as he defeated Bob Backlund in a match televised on the May 2 episode of Wrestling Challenge.

[3] Six days later, Razor Ramon was added to the tournament after he defeated Tito Santana on WWF Superstars.

[4] On May 9, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan pinned Papa Shango on Wrestling Challenge to become the fourth entrant.

Perfect and Doink the Clown wrestled three qualifying matches against each other, before a decisive winner could be found to advance in the tournament.

They first faced each other on the May 1 episode of WWF Superstars, but the match was declared a draw when the time limit expired.

[3] Crush faced WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels several times in early 1993 but was unable to win the title belt.

[16] The pair also faced each other in a qualifying match for the King of the Ring tournament on the May 22 episode of WWF Superstars.

Before the live PPV broadcast began, a dark match took place between Owen Hart and Papa Shango.

Papa Shango pinned Hart to retain the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship, which was being defended in the WWF as part of a talent exchange program between the WWF and the United States Wrestling Association (USWA).

Hart performed several of his signature moves, including a Russian legsweep and an elbow drop from the second rope.

Perfect then performed a dropkick on Hart and followed it up by pushing him off the edge of the ring into the steel barricade on the arena floor.

Hart wore down Perfect's leg with a figure four leglock and attempted to perform the Sharpshooter, his finishing maneuver.

Yokozuna controlled the beginning of the match until he ran at Hogan in the corner but missed an avalanche splash.

As Hogan prepared to attempt to body slam Yokozuna, manager Harvey Wippleman, disguised as a planted photographer,[23] jumped up onto the edge of the ring.

This enabled Billy Gunn to surprise DiBiase with a small package pinfall to win the match.

Crush controlled the early portion of the match by performing several dropkicks on Michaels, which he followed with a military press slam and a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.

He had been using the nickname "The King" since defeating Jackie Fargo for the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship in 1974 and did not want to share the title.

Writing for Online Onslaught, columnist Adam Gutschmidt stated that the event is the best King of the Ring show to watch.

[32] Packaged together with King of the Ring 1994, it was released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of the WWE Tagged Classics line on July 5, 2004.

[33] For the remainder of the summer, Hulk Hogan resumed his feud with Yokozuna on the international house show circuit.

While filming the show, he was offered a contract with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the WWF's main competitor.

Shawn Michaels was stripped of the Intercontinental Championship in September 1993, which set up a battle royal in which Razor Ramon became the next champion.

[41] They were supposed to wrestle against each other at Survivor Series 1993 in an elimination match, but Lawler was unable to appear because he had been charged with rape and sodomy in real life.

[47][48] King of the Ring continued as the annual June PPV until the 2002 event,[49] which was the same year that the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

[51] Although the promotion ceased producing the event as a PPV after the 2002 event, WWE has continued to periodically hold the tournament across their weekly television programs, Raw and SmackDown, with the finals being held on an episode of Raw or at another PPV, such as Judgment Day for the 2006 tournament.