The match to determine the new champions was scheduled to take place at the Royal Rumble. Khali then had a short feud with Big Show, culminating in a match at Backlash on 27 April, which Big Show won.[56]. Andr the Giant and Hulk Hogan signed a contract for a WrestleMania III rematch that took place on the February 5, 1988 The Main Event I. Title, Punk's Raw status confirmed, Barrett runs the gauntlet, next week's Main Event announced (w/Box Score)", "Caldwell's WWE Royal Rumble PPV Results 1/27: Complete "virtual-time" coverage of Punk vs. Rock, 30-man Rumble", "Batista won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match", "WWE Wrestlemania 30 live coverage & results: The Streak is over, Daniel Bryan's reign begins", "The Great Khali makes a shocking return during the Punjabi Prison Match", "WWE Champion Jinder Mahal def. 1 and 2 in the match.The two tag team championship partners battled brand was between Brock Lesnar and Hardcore Holly over the WWE Championship. [42], In addition to the women, wrestler Sami Zayn did not participate in the event as Zayn is of Syrian descent, and Saudi Arabia has strained relations with Syria. In May 2009, The Great Khali feuded with Dolph Ziggler, winning by disqualification after Ziggler attacked him with a steel chair. Hardy and Wyatt then performed a wheelbarrow Twist of Fate on Sheamus to win the titles. During the in-ring promo, after he signed the contract, at DiBiase's prompting to "give your stamp of approval", Andr grabbed Hogan, slammed his head into the table and then tipped the table on top of him before the heels left the ring. Haku then forced Roma to submit with a half crab to win the match in two straight falls. With Mankind lying unconscious in the ring, Rock handcuffed his hands behind his back and hit his head into the turnbuckle. After making a few appearances in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Jericho became one of the first wrestlers to sign with All Elite Wrestling in 2019. [40] Four days later on SmackDown!, Khali interfered in a Falls Count Anywhere Money in the Bank qualifying match between Kane and King Booker by costing Kane the match,[41] leading to a feud culminating in a match at WrestleMania 23, which Khali won in his first appearance at WrestleMania after slamming Kane with the Khali Bomb and choking him with a hook and chain at the end of the match. Two other title matches took place; Jeff Jarrett won the WWF Intercontinental Championship from Razor Ramon, and The 123 Kid and Bob Holly won the final match in a tournament that determined the new WWF Tag Team Champions. The match generally features 30 wrestlers. The 1995 Royal Rumble was the eighth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). Michaels performed Sweet Chin Music on Triple H but fell himself, resulting in the match ending in a draw and Triple H retained the title. [93] In February 2016, he won the CWE World Heavyweight Championship. Bryan survived until the final three, beating Rey Mysterio for the longest time spent in a single Royal Rumble match of all time at an hour and sixteen minutes. The Rock managed to stand up and clotheslined Mankind to the mat, putting a chair on his face and performing the Corporate Elbow. The two circled each other, occasionally going in for a grapple but without achieving a move. Kai & Martin were awarded the titles in August 1985 in Egypt. [41] During the event, WWE aired a promotional video, which included WWE female wrestlers. Chyna also appeared at the Royal Rumble the following year as well. When he was asked if he would quit, Mankind told Rock to go to hell, Rock told him he'd go to hell first. For 1995, the winner earned a match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XI. While demanding an explanation for these events the next week on Raw, Cena was again attacked by Kane, who revealed in the next several weeks of his desire to have Cena "embrace the hate" (his current on-screen character and T-shirt promoting otherwise) within caused by the anti-Cena crowd who continued to boo him. [10] On the January 15 episode of SmackDown!, Angle informed Eddie that the SmackDown! After hitting him again with the microphone when he would not quit, Rock was thrown inside the ring again, where Mankind stuffed a smelly sock down the Rock's throat to the point where Rock could not talk to quit, as the Rock had passed out from the mandible claw. 1) wins the Royal Rumble Match", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Rumble_(2004)&oldid=1126552998, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Angle, Gunn, Guerrero, Haas, Holly, Rikishi, Cena, Nunzio defeated Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli in a, (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match, This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 23:41. [9] Three days later on SmackDown!, Benoit defeated the Full Blooded Italians in a handicap mini Royal Rumble to retain his spot in the Royal Rumble. Goldberg speared Nunzio and then clotheslined Gunn over the top rope, eliminating him. [43] Benoit went on to win the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XX (which like this Rumble, it is also available in its entirety on the WWE Network unedited), but like his near erasure from this Royal Rumble, WWE only lists his name in the official title history but have removed the match description (this is also the case for any other WWE-owned title that he has won), as well as the match description for when Randy Orton defeated him for the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam. He has appeared in four Hollywood films, two Bollywood films and several television shows. Although The Undertaker won the match,[40] Kama, another member of DiBiase's Corporation, took possession of the urn and melted it down into a necklace. At WrestleMania XXIV on 30 March, Khali participated in a 24-man battle royal to determine a challenger for ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero that evening, but the match was won by Kane. 1993: Theodore Marvin DiBiase Sr. (born January 18, At the Royal Rumble in 1989, DiBiase purchased the #30 entrance spot from Akeem to become the final entrant in the match. Reigns alleged that there was a conspiracy against him. King Kong Bundy and Mabel, the two biggest competitors in the match, fought until Mabel eliminated Bundy. Rhyno performed a Spinebuster on Benoit and attempted to perform a Gore on Benoit but Benoit avoided the move and Rhyno instead crashed a rope hung Tajiri. The 2004 Royal Rumble was the 17th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the first in a series of WWE events held in Saudi Arabia in support of Saudi Vision 2030, the country's social and economic reform program. For the 1999 event, the winner received a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XV. [49] In July, Khali began a feud with Batista and the two were scheduled for a match at The Great American Bash. But after having some dominance, the lights went out, and when they came back up, under a blue hue, The Acolytes and Mideon had eliminated Mabel and took him to meet The Undertaker who put him in a (kayfabe) trance. The Gunns requested that they get a title shot after the tournament when Bart had recovered. On 27 May episode of SmackDown, after being defeated by Kane, Mahal came out and shoved Ranjin Singh and then Khali used his Vise Grip on Singh, thus forming an alliance with Mahal and acting as Mahal's bodyguard, assaulting Mahal's opponents after his matches. [52] Khali debuted a new finisher called the Khali Vise Grip (a two-handed clawhold) which he used to wear down Batista, Kane, and Ric Flair. [40] WWE's website has also posted photo galleries dedicated to the number one entrants and winners in the Royal Rumble history, both of which completely ignore Chris Benoit and the year of 2004. Shamrock took advantage of the time outside of the ring to drag Gunn around, throwing him face first into the ring post, steel steps and the unpadded floor before putting him back in the ring. After the match, Kane would continue his assault, hitting Cena with multiple chair shots before attacking an injured Zack Ryder, who was watching the event from a private office. [20] Mankind was sent to the hospital for his injuries, but returned to officiate in the closing minutes of the match. Sheamus - the 22nd entrant - won the match by last eliminating Chris Jericho, the 29th entrant. He hit his knee when he landed, and The Roadie then hit Ramon from behind in the knee. Early life. Jarrett gained the momentum with a series of dropkicks and then choked Ramon with a sleeper hold. was also offered a job in the Punjab Police, after his arrival in Punjab's Jalandhar, he trained in local gyms to become a wrestler[dubious discuss] and soon was selected for specialised wrestling training in the United States. Volkoff entered at #12 as Muraco clotheslined Race. The main event was the 1989 Royal Rumble match.The first Royal Rumble occurred in 1988, but it consisted of 20 men.The 1989 Royal Rumble was the second Royal Rumble but the first to have 30 men and the first to air on pay-per-view. [12] On the January 22 episode of SmackDown!, Holly attacked Lesnar during a handicap match pitting Lesnar, Big Show, Matt Morgan and Rhyno against John Cena and Chris Benoit. the One Man Gang nailed Duggan with a big splash in the corner and then the One Man Gang and Bravo began double-teaming on Muraco. The final four participants remaining in the ring were Michaels, Smith, Luger, and Crush. Michaels seemingly defeated Triple H to win the title, but the Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff declared the match a draw due to both men's shoulders being down on the mat during the pinfall. Dolph Ziggler (John Laurinaitis as Special Guest Referee)", "Sheamus won the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Rumble_(2012)&oldid=1124678736, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match, This page was last edited on 29 November 2022, at 23:43. It featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! Benoit, Angle, Jericho, Cena and Van Dam all teamed up against Big Show when Big Show picked up Cena and Angle performed a Chop Block on Big Show. [15], Another featured bout involved Daniel Bryan defending his World Heavyweight Championship in a Triple The first fall concluded when Roma was tossed over the top rope by Tama the ropes were low bridged by Haku resulting in Roma injuring his knee. Additionally, The Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) defeated The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) in a two out of three falls match to win the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship and in the opening bout, Ricky Steamboat defeated Rick Rude by disqualification. Stephen Farrelly (born 28 January 1978) is an Irish professional wrestler and actor. Brunzell dropkicked Hart but it had no great effect on Hart. [35] The following week, Kalisto earned a Cruiserweight Championship match at the Greatest Royal Rumble by winning a gauntlet match. The 1999 Royal Rumble was the 12th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; WWE as of 2002). Although Gunn put Shamrock in the corner for a ten punch, he then went to run into him and was thrown over the top rope out of the ring. Strowman also achieved the most eliminations of a single Royal Rumble match at 13, beating out a record previously held by Roman Reigns with 12. [26], On 12 May episode of SmackDown!, Khali was John Bradshaw Layfield's hand-picked opponent against World Heavyweight Champion Rey Mysterio (Khali had a height advantage of 21 inches and weight advantage of 250 pounds) and defeated Mysterio in a squash match. As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble match winner received a Patterson said that Ebersol saw the potential of the match, and Ebersol came up with the idea to add a countdown clock on the TV to build anticipation for the next entrant. [11][19][25], The WWF World Heavyweight Championship match was next, in which Diesel defended the title against Bret Hart. After the match, Eddie attacked Chavo and Chavo Sr., causing Chavo to bleed. Big Show landed on the apron. Sam Houston entered at #8 and went after Hart Foundation. Benoit eliminated A-Train and Benjamin tried to perform a Superkick on Orton, but Orton ducked the move and eliminated Benjamin. When the match returned to the ring, Schyster was in control. At one point, Bigelow held the Kid for Tatanka to attack, but Tatanka accidentally hit Bigelow instead. McMahon mistimed a clothesline and Austin punched him into the corner, stomping a mudhole. Instead of using the opportunity of eliminating the knocked out Benoit and Orton, Miller and his manager Lamont danced to Miller's entrance theme. All the wrestlers continued to beat each other until Ron Bass entered at #14. The main event was the 2012 Royal Rumble match. [64] It was later revealed that Ranjin Singh was Khali's brother, while the feud with Kane resulted in matches at SummerSlam on 23 August and Breaking Point on 13 September, both of which Khali lost.[65][66]. [20][21], Beginning with the 1989 Royal Rumble, the Royal Rumble became an annual January pay-per-view for the WWF, which was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002. [105], Rana's training schedule consists of two hours of weight training, morning and evening, every day, but his diet is unclear, as in some interviews it was claimed he maintains his size on a vegetarian diet[106] and in other interviews it was claimed he consumes vast quantities of chicken. Triple H vs. Kane in a No Disqualification Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship", "Keller's WWE Raw Report 5 yrs. Cesaro and Sheamus demanded their titles back, but Raw General Manager Kurt Angle instead scheduled them to face the winner of the four-team Tag Team Eliminator tournament for the vacant titles at the Greatest Royal Rumble. [23], On March 26, WWE scheduled a ladder match between then-champion The Miz, Seth Rollins, Finn Blor, and Samoa Joe for the Intercontinental Championship. [38] Dreamer then chased Daivari backstage, but Khali appeared and caught Dreamer, planting him on the steel ramp with a chokebomb. [41][42], The pay-per-view and the Royal Rumble match, however, exist in their entirety on the WWE Network unedited. With the Rock claiming it was an unfair win, the two faced each other again, and in hopes of finding a definitive champion the match was booked as a "Last Man Standing" match at St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Austin explained that even more than a WWF Championship match, he wanted another chance to fight McMahon without any legal ramifications so much that he would risk his WrestleMania title shot for the chance. Michaels and Smith, the first two entrants, were the last two wrestlers remaining. [1] APW was found liable for recklessness after less than a day of deliberations, awarding the Ong family for damages of over $1.3 million. As a result, Chavo turned heel. Hart won the match after the referee determined that Backlund had conceded defeat. Read latest breaking news, updates, and headlines. The rivalry could be dated back to September 12, 2002, episode of SmackDown!, when Lesnar defeated Holly in a non-title match and injured him by breaking his neck, putting him out of action for over a year. [14][15] Andr sold the title to Ted DiBiase in exchange for a large sum of money but figurehead WWF President Jack Tunney vacated the title, making Andr the shortest reigning WWF Champion (at the time) with a reign of 45 seconds. Mr. McMahon won the match by last eliminating Austin. She instantly targeted Mark Henry, delivering forearms before throwing him over the top rope, but before she had time to celebrate Austin immediately clotheslined her over the top rope, for which Triple H attacked him, and in addition, this latter took both Val and Jarrett out. [11] The event has also been rated by customers at Amazon.com, who have given the event four and a half out of five stars. When Commissioner Shawn Michaels allied himself with The Corporation, one of the first things he did was to book the Tag Team Champions, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn, in a title defense against Corporate members Ken Shamrock and The Big Boss Man. Michaels scratched Crush's eyes, which enabled Smith to eliminate Crush. [73] On 26 April, Khali was drafted back to SmackDown as part of the 2011 supplemental draft. Gunn gained momentum and eventually went for a move from the turnbuckle. Schyster performed a clothesline to knock The Undertaker out of the ring, where he and the druids attacked The Undertaker. Ramon ran at Jarrett but was thrown over the top rope. Volkoff prevented from Brunzell eliminating Davis. Benoit battled A-Train, while Shelton Benjamin entered at #17. [24] At WrestleMania 34, The Miz lost the Intercontinental Championship to Rollins in a triple threat match that also included Blor, thus making Rollins the defending champion. Diesel recovered and performed the Jackknife power bomb on Hart. [44], Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a militant group offshoot of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, issued a warning to bin Salman and criticized the WWE event stating that "Disbelieving wrestlers exposed their privates and on most of them was the sign of the cross, in front of a mixed gathering of young Muslim men and women. [13], The Undertaker had been feuding with DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation since his return to the WWF from an injury in August 1994. After the match, Los Guerreros finally ended when Chavo attacked Eddie and caused him to bleed. As per the match stipulations, Ziggler's tag team partner Jack Swagger and manager Vickie Guerrero were both banned from ringside. The Canadian Online Explorer gave Royal Rumble a 6.5 out of 10, with the Royal Rumble match receiving the same rating. Rock-Foley [is] awesome, but as usual the show lives or dies with the Rumble match. On 1 July edition of SmackDown, Ranjin Singh revealed that Mahal was their brother-in-law and that if Khali did not obey Mahal, then he would divorce Khali's sister and put his family back into poverty. The 2020 Royal Rumble was the 33rd annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event produced by WWE.It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.The event took place on January 26, 2020, at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.. [39] On 19 February episode of Raw, Khali demanded better competition after easily defeating The Highlanders. The main event of the card was the 1999 Royal Rumble match. Mankind ran for recovery up the walkway but was chased by The Rock who lost control when his opponent began head-butting him. The Undertaker kicked out and attempted to perform the Tombstone Piledriver. "[16], On Raw Is War the following night, Mr. McMahon awarded The Rock the $100,000 bounty for helping him eliminate Austin in the Royal Rumble, and also announced that he was officially forfeiting his title shot at WrestleMania, the first time ever a Royal Rumble winner had done so, so as to not make The Rock defend his WWF Championship against McMahon. [75] Khali returned on 3 February episode of SmackDown, saving Justin Gabriel from Rhodes, Hunico and Hunico's bodyguard Camacho, then being announced as the replacement to Mark Henry in the Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event. He also found the inconclusive ending to the WWF World Heavyweight Championship match frustrating and rated the match between The Undertaker and Irwin R. Schyster as a "dud". Bret Hart and Diesel brawled until Bret rolled Diesel up for a pinfall. [25] The following night on Raw, Strowman and Nicholas relinquished the titles due to Nicholas being a fourth grader. Big Show had not entered the match before assisting in eliminating Swagger. [20] Singh suffered his first loss in a tag team match at Wrestling World 2002 in January 2002 after Hiroyoshi Tenzan pinned him with a cradle. [10] Meanwhile, as well as tensions from the tag team feuding, Billy Gunn gained the ire of Ken Shamrock when his sister Ryan appeared at ringside, only to have her sibling affection distracted when Gunn lived up to his nickname by flirtatiously mooning Ryan after Val Venis had already danced for her. [29] Due to reasons not entirely clear, Rusev was temporarily replaced by Chris Jericho[30] this was explained with Rusev's wife Lana complaining about her husband competing in a casket match[31] but eventually reinserted back into the match. The Undertaker's feud with Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation also escalated, as DiBiase's men stole the urn that was said to give The Undertaker his power. They went to do the same on Duggan. [19] The Undertaker would have a "Hell in a Cell" match against Big Boss Man at WrestleMania XV which ended with The Brood passing rope from the roof to hang Boss Man with. Luger attacked Crush but was eliminated by Michaels. The matches resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters to build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. In the end, Hardy distracted Sheamus, allowing Wyatt to perform a Sister Abigail on him. [37], Jeff Hardy then defended the United States Championship against Jinder Mahal. Upon returning to the WWE on the December 12 edition of Raw, after an absence of nearly four months, Kane interrupted Cena's match against Mark Henry, and though it was Henry who put him out of action, he bypassed him and attacked Cena, chokeslamming him before revealing his new mask. Goldberg was distracted and when he recovered, Angle eliminated him from behind. Jericho was restored to his original participation in the Greatest Royal Rumble match. Austin ordered someone to replace Test and gave him the #21 entry number. Towards the latter part of the match Punk had Ziggler beaten, but the referee was knocked out and unable to make the count. brand divisions. [6][7] It was the first Royal Rumble held since the end of the first brand split in August 2011. [102] He was a disciple of Indian spiritual guru Ashutosh Maharaj. Foley and Orton numerously attacked each other, where Foley was about to perform a Mandible Claw on Orton until Nunzio entered at #23 and Foley turned his focus on Nunzio and performed a Mandible Claw on Nunzio, knocking him down. Benoit eventually landed on the apron while applying a front headlock on Big Show. Ramon won the match by disqualification but did not win the title. [4][5], The card consisted of four matches. Hart hit Santana in the corner. The Miz, Finn Blor and Samoa Joe (Ladder Match)", "WWE Champion AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura ended in a Double Count-out", "The Undertaker def. After the match, Tajiri tried to assault Nidia, but Mysterio rescued her. Booker attacked Steiner and then performed a Scissors Kick on Orton. [15] The feud between The Undertaker and Schyster escalated when Schyster performed a series of vignettes in which he repossessed such items as tombstones and burial plots from people he claimed had not paid their taxes before dying. [13], The main rivalry heading into the event from the Raw brand was between Triple H and Shawn Michaels over the World Heavyweight Championship. However, Benoit jumped on the apron and eliminated Bradshaw instead. Bass surprisingly attacked the Junkyard Dog and eliminated him from behind while Muraco surprisingly clotheslined Bass over the top rope as the final four left Muraco, Duggan, Bravo and OMG. Mideon, Faarooq, and Bradshaw (themselves not official entrants) eliminated Mabel and would indoctrinate him into the Ministry of Darkness as "Viscera" on the following Raw. The event received 443,000 pay-per-view buys, slightly down from 446,000 buys the previous year's event received. The Rock then came to ringside taunting Austin with the WWF Championship, climbing up to the apron. Early in the WrestleMania card, Wight and Mankind fought for the referee position in a match which saw Wight disqualified for chokeslamming Mankind through a pair of steel folding chairs. The 1999 event was the 12th event in the Royal Rumble chronology and was scheduled to be held on January 24, 1999, at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim, California. The Gunns won the match and the WWF Tag Team Championship. Results were predetermined by WWF's writers, with storylines produced on their weekly television shows, Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, and Prime Time Wrestling. [9] Three days after Survivor Series, Diesel faced Backlund and won the title belt. He cites that most of the Royal Rumble participants' gimmicks and the lack of main event wrestlers (such as Jeff Jarrett, Scott Hall and The Undertaker) as his reasons for including the match in the list. Meanwhile, clips were shown of Austin being lifted onto a gurney and eventually being taken to hospital. The matches resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters to build tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [51] Khali dominated and defeated both Batista and Kane in a triple-threat match at The Great American Bash on 22 July. [9] After pinning the champions, The Jumping Bomb Angels signed a contract for the Royal Rumble challenging The Glamour Girls for the titles.[10]. The event featured five matches on its card. On 14 March episode of Raw, after Khali defeated The Miz by disqualification, Miz assaulted Khali with a steel chair, injuring him. Shortly after entering the match, Mabel took out Blackman, Severn, Singh, Meanie and Droz, and started a clash with Road Dogg, who was just fresh and took Edge out, having the upper hand. From these tryouts, eight were selected to receive training by WWE, which would include an opportunity to earn a spot at the Greatest Royal Rumble event itself. Bam Bam Bigelow attacked National Football League Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor, who was sitting in the crowd; this set up a match between the two at WrestleMania. Beginning with the pay-per-view broadcast in 1989, the Royal Rumble became one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were dubbed the "Big Four". He suffers from acromegaly, which among other symptoms causes gigantism and chin protrusion. IGN is the leading site for PC games with expert reviews, news, previews, game trailers, cheat codes, wiki guides & walkthroughs The World Heavyweight Championship match and the John Cena vs. Kane match were rated a 5 out of 10 and the Divas' tag-team match a 3 out of 10. Royal Rumble: Albany, NY: 1 77: 77 This was the Royal Rumble match in which Flair last eliminated Sid Justice to win the vacant title. After a minor absence, Women's Champion Sable returned to Raw with an open invitation on December 28, but before the match a fan came into the ring, later identified as Tori to give her a rose. The 2010 Royal Rumble was the 23rd annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). [37], After that, The Bludgeon Brothers defended the SmackDown Tag Team Championship against The Usos. [110][111], He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 10 February 2022. The referee ordered the match to continue, and the match went back and forth until Hart used the Sharpshooter submission hold to place pressure on Diesel's injured leg. [30] Big Show chokeslammed Benoit and fought Angle. Chris Benoit and Randy Orton were the first two entrants. Benoit then tossed Henry over the top rope, eliminating him. He collapsed under Jarrett's weight, however, and Jarrett pinned him to win the title. [11][24], The Undertaker faced Irwin R. Schyster in the next match. It took place on January 22, 1994, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.Six matches were contested at the event, including one dark match.This was the last Royal Rumble event that was held on a Hardy performed a Swanton Bomb on Mahal to retain the title. For the 1995 event, the winner received a match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XI. [49], Bam Bam Bigelow challenged Lawrence Taylor to a match, which Taylor accepted after initially refusing. [60] Instead of a large cut out of the WWE logo, the center plate was modeled with an Arabic pattern with the WWE logo in the center. It took place on January 22, 1995, in the USF Sun Dome located in Tampa, Florida. [37], WWE had been criticized for holding the event without female wrestlers, who were unable to perform at the event due to the limited rights women have in Saudi Arabia. 2018 WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming event, Promotional poster featuring 71 WWE wrestlers, Greatest Royal Rumble match entrances and eliminations, WWE Greatest Royal Rumble Trophy and Championship, WWE Cruiserweight Championship tournament final, limited rights women have in Saudi Arabia, "First-ever WWE Greatest Royal Rumble wows 60,000 in Jeddah", "Chris Jericho's last WWE match was a GREATEST of all time", "Statistical survival breaking down the Royal Rumble", "WWE news, rumors: 'Greatest Royal Rumble,' NXT injury, Jericho-NJPW done? Eventually Road Dogg became trapped in the corner and Boss Man punched him. Next was the match the event was based on the Royal Rumble match. It was the first Royal Rumble held since the end of the first brand extension in August 2011. Triple H for 30 minutes, Lita & Trish & Stacy, Mick Foley and Steve Austin", "Smackdown: Hardcore Holly keeps his job", "Smackdown! Before the referee could count the pinfall, Shawn Michaels ran to the ring and attacked Diesel. Commissioner Michaels over-rode his decision and put McMahon at #2, and set up the aforementioned Corporate/DX mini-Rumble for the now vacant #30 position. Christian started attacking Big Show. In addition, it was proven that Ong did not receive protective gear or supervision by All Pro Wrestling (APW) staff and this second concussion ultimately proved fatal for him. Diesel began the match by clotheslining Hart, but Hart gained the advantage by focusing on injuring Diesel's knee. bunlarn hepsi itilaf devletleri deil miydi zamannda? Orton recovered and backdropped Rico over the top rope, eliminating him. Hart hit a jumping piledriver on Santana while Harley Race entered at #6. 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Jarrett and Ramon continued to feud for several months, and Bret Hart targeted Bob Backlund because of Backlund's interference in the WWF World Heavyweight Championship match. Mankind faced The Rock again at Rock Bottom: IYH and won the match, but Mr. McMahon stepped in and announced that while Rock lost the match by falling unconscious to the mandible claw, he did not technically submit and thus the WWF Championship would not change hands. [12] On the January 19 episode of Raw, Goldberg, Randy Orton, Rob Van Dam, Booker T, Mark Henry and Chris Jericho won matches to qualify for a Battle Royal to determine the #30 entrant of the Royal Rumble match. The match ended when Alexander countered a Salida Del Sol attempt into a Lumbar Check to retain the title. Dalip Singh Rana (born 27 August 1972) is an Indian professional wrestler and wrestling promoter better known by his ring name The Great Khali. Reigns crashes Lesnar to some cage walls and performed three Spears for a near-fall. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions.The event took place on January 31, 2010, at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble [32], At WrestleMania 34, Jinder Mahal won the United States Championship. The tournament brackets were: A new entrant came out approximately every minute. A druid interfered to prevent the move, but The Undertaker performed a chokeslam on Schyster to gain the pinfall victory. Terry Eugene Bollea was born in Augusta, Georgia on August 11, 1953, the son of construction foreman Pietro "Peter" Bollea (December 6, 1913 December 18, 2001) of Italian descent and homemaker and dance teacher Ruth V. (ne Moody; 1922 January 1, 2011) Bollea of Scottish and French descent. John Cena entered at #28 but instead of entering the ring, he focused on Nunzio, who was sitting in the ringside. On the following night's episode of Raw, during a confrontation between Triple H and Shawn Michaels, the Raw Sheriff Stone Cold Steve Austin intervened and announced that even though he could not make a match between the two (Austin having lost his Co-General Manager powers at Survivor Series in November), he would "uphold the law" and announced that Michaels would not get the next shot at Triple H because he did not win the Royal Rumble. On 9 September episode of SmackDown, Khali and Mahal went against WWE Tag Team Champions Air Boom (Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston) in a losing effort after Khali pushed Mahal, allowing Kingston to hit his finishing move onto Mahal and after the match he walked away from Mahal, thus ending their alliance. As a result, Triple H retained the title. [42] On 30 April episode of Raw, Khali attacked Edge, Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels (all three top contenders to the WWE Championship at the time) backstage. 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