It took place on January 19, 2003, at the Fleet Center in Boston, was the first Royal Rumble produced under the WWE name and employed talent from the Raw and SmackDown! Special shout-outs to Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, who won the Rumble two consecutive years. VIDEO: Watch the opening segment on Raw the night following Royal Rumble. They really killed Spike by doing that. Roman eliminates Edge only to eat a Claymore from McIntyre who then tosses him over the top rope for a victory almost no one saw coming. The Dudleys vs the Hardys capped off their typical CMOA match with Jeff performing a Swanton Bomb from the balcony through Buh Buh and a table. In a rare, legitimate surprise entrance, Chris Jericho reappeared in the number two slot and lasted well over 40 minutes until the final entrant had hit the ring before finally being eliminated. brands.. As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble match winner received a …

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The Royal Rumble is a pay-per-view consisting of the Royal Rumble match, title matches, and various other matches. The second version, that is— after Akio Sato left, he was replaced by Kato, aka American wrestler Paul Diamond under a mask. a Spear so powerful it nearly snapped him in two, eliminates Hardcore Holly, Chris Benoit, The Miz, Rob Van Dam, CM Punk, Carlito, and Chavo Guerrero, walking on the floor and back to the ring steps, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman, immediately hits Bray with a discus clothesline, hooking her legs to the ring post, pulling herself up, then climbing the turnbuckle, still decides to participate in the Royal Rumble, Virgil leaps up and smashes the belt into DiBiase's jaw, Then both men kept going after each getting hit by it, Then came the Pedigree onto the thumbtacks, When Flair entered the 1992 Rumble at #3, Gorilla Monsoon took great delight in. After igniting their dormant feud, Michaels had taken Triple H to the limit on an episode of Raw in December 2003, nearly winning the championship. One of the best nights of the year in WWE, regardless if the result is something you love, or something you hate, as the Royal Rumble match has always been very exciting to watch. He was pretty bland as a character, but he had a heck of a dropkick, and he got to show it off in the 2002 Rumble. Bianca Belair turning in a star-making performance, coming in at number 2 and eliminating eight compeitors to last 33 minutes, and establishing a record for most eliminations in a Women's Royal Rumble match (tied by Shayna Baszler later in the same match). So what did they do? In September of 2002, Brock had broken Holly's neck on a botched powerbomb, sending Holly to the sidelines for over a year. Despite enduring a grueling brawl with Asuka, Over in the Men's Royal Rumble, NXT's superstars once again make a name for themselves as, Mustafa Ali, in his first Royal Rumble match, makes a very impressive statement by not only eliminating. 29 after being out with injuries for months, looking like a mountain man straight out of an episode of "Alone" and winning the match in a complete stunner. The 2003 Rumble saw Scott Steiner vs. None other than. Theme song: "Nothing Left to Lose" by Puddle of Mudd One of the best nights of the year in WWE, regardless if the result is something you love, or something you hate, as the Royal Rumble match has always been very exciting to watch. At #19, Kurt Angle (the man who guaranteed a victory, and dedicated it to the armed forces) came out.

Despite the crowd hating chant due to an expected result and fast fan favorite elimination, The Rock returns to save Roman Reigns from being eliminated and beaten up by the eliminated Big Show and Kane. Find himself on the brink of elimination by about seven guys, only for, Make it to the Runner Up position, surviving the likes of The Rock, Undertaker, and, Maven eliminated The Undertaker in the 2002 Rumble — and ended up. On Raw, the favorites built up in the Royal Rumble match were Kane, who was receiving another monster push, and Goldberg who had won the right to enter the match at number 30. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Awesome/RoyalRumble. It also gave us nonsense like Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler battling as serious contenders in the extended middle section, but the finish stands out as particularly memorable if nothing else. FOLLOW: Sporting News Wrestling on Twitter, for the latest wrestling news, notes and ridiculousness. : At #13, The Undertaker’s old BONG audio hit on the sound system and took Kane out of his game and led to Booker eliminating him. As number 29 comes up, the audience is ready and then hears "You think you know me...." The place erupts as Edge makes a surprise return from injury and ends up winning the Rumble. Few would have expected her to return, as she has only made a couple of one-off appearances since her 2008 departure. The team proceeded to clear the ring, and the match stopped so everyone could show off their dance moves…until Rikishi once again proved that it was every man for himself, turning on his friends and throwing them out.

Just to top everything off, the last two competitors were The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels, and the resulting battle could easily be considered a separate match by itself. DiBiase snaps about Virgil's family and the man kneels to get the belt.

Which didn’t happen, I remind you. Edit: Sped up Video was the only one I could find. Granted, he had a great feud with Chris Jericho in 2003, but spent most of 2006 in a goofy feud with Vince McMahon and the Spirit Squad as a part of the reunited D-X. Shawn Michaels won the 1995 Rumble from the #1 spot (although to be fair, because that Rumble only had one-minute-apart entrances; it went a little over half an hour), but what really makes this Moment of Awesome can be summed up in nine words—"Only ONE of Shawn Michaels' feet hit the floor.".

Holly returned with a vengeance and a full-nelson finisher, promising to break Brock's neck. Top to bottom it was an excellently told story even if the Roman walking out was a shit thing to do.). Here, they would face off in a last man standing match. In Saudi Arabia, no less. Kofi continues his string of amazing Rumble feats by using. He managed to land onto Rusev's back and make it onto the barricade, then jump back to the ring despite the bad position, much to the announcer's disbelief. It is what got me addicted to watching wrestling. This year's surprise entrant? As impressive as Bianca Belair gaining the record of 8 eliminations was, it took her a half hour plus change to do it. Top to bottom I would put it below 1992 (the best one ever) but its right up there 1997, 2001, 2002, 2007 (the one that finishes with a HBK/Taker match that was fucking amazing) and 2016. It is the PPV that led me to be a Chris Benoit fan. Although the sale of WCW to the WWF hadn’t fully occurred in January '01 — when the Royal Rumble was held — the writing was definitely on the wall that the end was near for WCW. Daniel Bryan set a record at the Greatest Royal Rumble by entering at #1 and surviving for one hour and sixteen minutes, breaking Rey Mysterio's record by a good fourteen minutes.

Goldberg once again proves he has Brock Lesnar's number by, Once again Kofi makes another miracle elimination dodge. It also marks the symbolism of Vince's boys (represented by Reigns and Cena) vs Triple H's boys (represented by Nakamura and Balor). However it seems that Jinder was blocking Kofi from getting back in. Right after Naomi was eliminated, Corey Graves claimed that no one could stop the one that did the deed, Nia Jax. History Event.