Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The main event was the 2002 Royal Rumble match, which was won by Triple H, who last eliminated Kurt Angle. In other prominent matches, Chris Jericho defeated The Rock to retain the Undisputed WWF Championship, Ric Flair defeated Vince McMahon in a Street Fight, and William Regal defeated Edge to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
The Undertaker won his first Royal Rumble match on January 28, in doing so becoming the first man to enter the Rumble at number 30 and win the match, after lastly eliminating Shawn Michaels. [168] On the February 5 episode of Raw , The Undertaker elected to face World Heavyweight Champion Batista at WrestleMania 23 on April 1, before attacking ...
The 1996 Royal Rumble was the ninth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 21, 1996, at the Selland Arena in Fresno, California .
The main event was the 2003 Royal Rumble match, which was won by SmackDown!'s Brock Lesnar, who last eliminated The Undertaker, also from SmackDown!. The primary main event from the Raw brand saw Triple H versus Scott Steiner for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Steiner won by disqualification resulting in Triple H retaining the ...
A 4-man Royal Rumble took place on the January 8, 2004 episode of SmackDown, when Paul Heyman pit Chris Benoit against the three members of the F.B.I. Benoit won the match. A 15-man Royal Rumble was held during the January 29, 2004 episode of SmackDown to crown a contender for Brock Lesnar's WWE Championship at No Way Out.
The 1–2–3 Kid and Holly advanced to the finals, as did Ted DiBiase's team of Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka. The match to determine the new champions was scheduled to take place at the Royal Rumble. [13] The Undertaker had been feuding with DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation since his return to
Michaels and Undertaker resumed the feud at Badd Blood in October 1997 in the first-ever Hell in a Cell match, which ended with the debut of Undertaker's brother, Kane, giving Michaels the unfair win by delivering a tombstone piledriver on Undertaker, allowing the battered and bloody Michaels to steal the win. [10] In an effort to mock ...
[22] [4] Mysterio broke the record for lasting the longest in a Royal Rumble match, 1:02:12. The previous record was 1:01:30, set by Chris Benoit at the 2004 Royal Rumble. Finally, Mysterio was the second person to win from the #2 slot, the first being Vince McMahon in the 1999 Royal Rumble. Edge as WWE Champion.