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The 1998 Royal Rumble was the 11th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California .
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 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.
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 1997 Royal Rumble: December 16, 2016 3h 5m 21 Mr. Perfect: December 23, 2016 3h 17m 22 #LoveToKnow (Q&A from fans) December 30, 2016 2h 23m 23 The Million Dollar Man: January 6, 2017 3h 8m 24 "Ravishing" Rick Rude: January 13, 2017 2h 21m 25 1994 Royal Rumble: January 20, 2017 1h 57m 26 Kurt Angle: January 27, 2017 3h 0m 27 The nWo in the WWE
The 1997 Royal Rumble was the 10th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 19, 1997, from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas .
It was released on DVD in North America as part of WWE's Complete Royal Rumble Anthology on November 27, 2007. [34] In the United Kingdom, it was released on VHS in 1993. [35] On June 6, 2005, it was packaged together with Royal Rumble 1994 as part of WWE's Tagged Classics line for its United Kingdom DVD release. [36] This was followed by the ...
The main event was the 1992 Royal Rumble match. This Royal Rumble match was notable as for the first time, the winner would win the WWF Championship, which had been vacated in December 1991. Ric Flair would start at number 3, Sid Justice would enter at number 29 while The Undertaker and Hulk Hogan would enter at numbers 20 and 26 respectively.