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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).
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]
Here is the full list of men's Royal Rumble winners from each year: 1988: “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan. 1989: Big John Studd. 1990: Hulk Hogan. 1991: Hulk Hogan (second win) 1992: Ric Flair. 1993 ...
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. A 22-man Royal Rumble match took place ...
The journey to WrestleMania is officially underway, and two spots have been secured. The 2025 Royal Rumble officially kicked off the start of WWE's biggest time of the year, as the iconic first ...
January 24 - WWE Royal Rumble was aired on USA Network against the NWA Bunkhouse Stampede that aired live on Pay Per View. March 27 - Clash of the Champions I was aired on free TV via TBS against the WWE pay-per view event WrestleMania IV. April 3 - WCW Main Event Premiered on TBS.
The show's name also referred to the ECW brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform, complementary to WWE's other brands, Raw and SmackDown. It debuted on June 13, 2006 on Sci Fi Channel in the United States and ran for close to four years until it aired its final episode on February 16, 2010 on the rebranded Syfy .
One of WWE’s most popular events, the Royal Rumble, returns for 2024 on Saturday evening as the ‘Road to Wrestlemania’ begins in earnest.Although Wrestlemania is WWE’s biggest annual event ...