>>7900557Serious reason is that he has asthma and can't work a singles match without getting gassed within a minute.
That's why he worked so well in the tag team division, he wouldn't be working the entire match by himself.
>I guess King of the Ring died with him.Kurt Angle used it for his main event push the following year and then Edge used it to break away from the tag team division after that but yeah the writing was on the wall by that point and it was relegated to the undercard on its own PPV.