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For 2000, the winner earned a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania 2000. The 2000 event was the 13th event in the Royal Rumble chronology and was scheduled to be held on January 23, 2000, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. [10] [11]
A 30-man Royal Rumble on January 17, 1994, at Madison Square Garden was won by Owen Hart, last eliminating Fatu. An 18-man Royal Rumble match took place on May 9, 1994, in Osaka, Japan and was won by The Undertaker, last eliminating Bam Bam Bigelow. There was a tag team Royal Rumble on the June 15, 1998 episode of Raw.
The Royal Rumble match was created by wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson and the event was established by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the match was first tested at a house show in October 1987, [1] the first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live as a television special on the USA Network. [2]
The 2005 event was the 18th Royal Rumble and was scheduled to be held on January 30, 2005, at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. It featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown! brands. [4][5] The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a world championship match at that year's ...
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The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were dubbed the "Big Four", [2] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring. [3]
Royal Rumble (1999) The 1999 Royal Rumble (marketed as Royal Rumble: No Chance in Hell) was the 12th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 24, 1999, at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim in Anaheim, California.
The 2002 event was the 15th event in the Royal Rumble chronology and was scheduled to be held on January 20, 2002, at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. [6] [7] The Royal Rumble match generally features 30 wrestlers. Traditionally, the winner of the match earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania.