The History Of The Royal Rumble

The Royal Rumble is normally the main event of the pay per view, except in 2006 when it was in the middle of the card. The pay per view Royal Rumble besides the rumble match normally has WWE and World championship matches with various other matches. The Royal Rumble is one of the most anticipated pay per views for any wrestling fan there is no denying that. Its importance to the WWE superstars is almost just as important as Wrestlemania.

Lets not look at the pay per view as a whole though but the rumble match its self.   Winning the rumble is like winning a championship for superstars its in many cases the match of their career. Most of the greatest ever have won rumble matches. Hulk Hogan in 90 and 91, Ric Flair in ’92, Bret Hart in ’94, Shawn Micheals ’95,’96, Steve Austin ’97,98,’01, The Rock in 2000, Triple H ’02, Chris Benoit in ’04 and The Undertaker in ’07.  Looking at this list most of them went on to Wrestlemania to become champions. Normally the winner of this match goes on to main event Wrestlemania and get a title shot. In the past it was only the WWE (was WWF) championship now the winner gets to pick between ECW, World and WWE championships they want to go after at Wrestlemania.

Every winner since 1993 has used their title shot they won at The Royal Rumble at Wrestlemania except this last year John Cena used his before Wrestlemania. Cena still went on to be in the Wrestlemania main event but it was in a match later won at Raw. 

We’ve seen big men like Kane go in there eliminate 11 people on his own and some superstars that are in and out of the rumble like Take Michinoku. We see men like Benoit, and Shawn Micheals come in at number one and win the rumble. Until ’07 no man had won that came in at the 30th spot until The Undertaker did. In fact that was Taker’s first rumble win in his illustrious career that started in 1990. The rumble is where dreams can be made and where we see the best the WWE has to offer in one ring at one time. 

As we go forward into the Road to Wrestlemania and the superstars prepare for the rumble its time to keep on eye on who has the momentum. As long as our injured stars come back and the WWE can stay injury free this could be on of the biggest rumbles yet. HBK, CM Punk, Edge, Taker, Big Show, Kane, Cena, Batista, Orton, Jeff Hardy, Mark Henry, Finlay... the list can go on and on but the question will be answered in January.... Who will be heading to wrestlemania’s main even and become apart of history.

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