Not only did TNA use this format to crown their first champion, but in the early days, they used it to figure out the Knockouts Championship, the X-Division Championship, and even Tag Team Championship when each was vacated. Otherwise, they tend to be for the 1 contender spot of whatever title. As of this writing, there are 21 in the can. Only one of them involves Toby Keith suplexing Jeff Jarrett, though. I wrote a whoooooole thing on its history.
The short of it is that it was an over-the-top show featuring high-fliers from the indies and known wrestlers who were unwanted by the likes of both WWE and TNA. In the first episode ten in total, though only nine would air , about half of it was built around the WSX Rumble to figure out who would be the inaugural champion.
Keep in mind, the show was only a half hour with commercials and they also had a musical guest and an opening match, so they had to rush this baby for ten minutes.
By the time they hit the end of the match, the show cut right to the credits. The man Rumble featured lots of hazards set up around the warehouse. Ladders, tables, explosives, and so on, just to give the eliminations an extra shot in the arm. Once the tenth competitor hit the ring, two contracts would lower from the ceiling. While over-the-top-rope eliminations were still in effect, to actually win, you had to be one of two to climb up a ladder and retrieve a contract.
The two winners would face off for the title the following week. Since this was filmed during the pilot, four of the ten men involved would be long gone from the show as of episode 2.
Plus, from what I hear, it was more of a gauntlet match instead of a straight-up Rumble. A year later, they did an aired Honor Rumble with tag teams involved, though unlike most tag-based battle royals, a team is only eliminated when both members are gone. From there, the match type became kind of a crapshoot.
Sometimes it would be on TV. Sometimes it would be on PPV. Sometimes it was just a house show attraction. Not bad. It was nothing more than a filler opener featuring a bunch of novelty names from the past including Botchamania favorite Dragon Dragon and midcarders with nothing going on.
In , they introduced a match called the Infinite Gauntlet. Because comics. Elimination comes from going over the top rope to the floor, pinfall, and submission. Other notable entrants include a one-off appearance by Gene Snitsky and a local news anchorman.
Oh man, this is a mindless good time. Back in , three Japanese promotions got together and decided to have the biggest Royal Rumble match ever. They started this during the latter moments of , meaning that at one point everyone ran out to the ring to count down the New Year, celebrate, and then run back to the locker room.
Just watch it for the bizarre hilarity of seeing a guy get eliminated, then him finding out another one of his personas is the next entrant, so he washes the makeup off his face. Then again, Jonathan Coachman lasted 14 minutes that year. In , he would sign to WWE and debut without a mask, eventually forming the Mexicools stable alongside Super Crazy and Juventud Guerrera and never winning the Cruiserweight Championship.
The following year, Noble would mostly retire from in-ring competition and take a backstage position with WWE. He, too, would end up in WWE as part of the Invasion storyline, getting a brief push in that included two minutes in the Royal Rumble and a feud with Rikishi before being relegated to Velocity. His last name is slightly easier to pronounce than it looks.
Is this interesting? Final Royal Rumble appearance for Hulk Hogan. Ric Flair became the 1st man ever to enter as one of the first 5 entrants and win the Royal Rumble. Shawn Michaels' first PPV match as a singles wrestler, as he had split with his Rockers tag team partner Marty Jannetty a week earlier.
V of the Natural Disasters as a heel tag team. Their manager Jimmy Hart would form the team of Money Inc the following month and would ditch the Disasters team. The only rumble match in history where 30 superstars were wrestling for the vacated WWF title. Spoilers The trivia item below may give away important plot points. In , Triple H became the second person to do so, behind his mentor Ric Flair who did so at this event.
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