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The 1989 Royal Rumble was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the inaugural event aired as a television special, the 1989 event aired on pay-per-view (PPV), thus becoming one of the WWF's original four annual PPV events, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which would become ...
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]
WWF: Royal Rumble: Houston, Texas: Big John Studd won the Royal Rumble match by last eliminating Ted DiBiase [1] January 29 UWA: UWA 14th Anniversary Show: Naucalpan, Mexico: El Canek (c) defeated Konnan in a singles match for the UWA World Heavyweight Championship [2] February 16 WWF: Saturday Night's Main Event: Hershey, Pennsylvania: Hulk ...
The very first Royal Rumble match took place at a house show in St. Louis, Missouri on October 4, 1987, where the One Man Gang won a 12-Man Royal Rumble, last eliminating the Junkyard Dog, to earn a WWF World Heavyweight Championship match against Hulk Hogan at the following month's St. Louis house show.
The main singles match on the card was between Ravishing Rick Rude versus The Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship. They had a "Super Posedown" at the Royal Rumble in January 1989 which was won by Warrior, prompting Rude to angrily attack him with a steel workout bar. [11]
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The event's main featured match is a battle royal-type match, also titled the Royal Rumble. It is regarded as one of the "Big Four", as along with WrestleMania , SummerSlam and Survivor Series , as it was one of the original four annual WWE pay-per-views.
This Royal Rumble set a record for the highest viewed wrestling program on cable TV at the time with an 8.2 rating. [21] [22] Beginning with the 1989 Royal Rumble, the Royal Rumble became an annual January pay-per-view for the WWF, which, in 2002, was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, which became an orphaned initialism in April 2011).