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The 1988 Royal Rumble was the inaugural Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 24, 1988, at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada .
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 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 ...
At the first Royal Rumble supercard on January 24, 1988, Hogan and André signed a contract for a WrestleMania III rematch. [11] Their WWF title rematch took place on The Main Event I on February 5, 1988, where André controversially defeated Hogan for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. [12] [13] However, his reign was short lived.
The 1988 event followed suit and featured the same four match types that filled the card. It was the second event in the Survivor Series chronology, establishing it as an annual November event, becoming one of the promotions original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, which were dubbed the "Big Four". It ...
A screenshot from a Tagged Classics release showing the WWF scratch logo that was censored mostly from 2002 to 2012.. The tagged classics dvds released prior to 2012 were unique as they were, for the most part, free from the former well-documented legal restraints imposed by the federal lawsuits initiated by the World Wildlife Fund in 2002 that prohibited the referencing and use of the scratch ...
The event took place on January 24, 1988 from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York in direct competition with the WWF's Royal Rumble television special. In the main event , Dusty Rhodes won a Steel Cage Bunkhouse Stampede .
Ritter made his debut for the National Wrestling Alliance at Clash of the Champions IV on December 7, 1988, during an altercation between The Russian Assassins and Ivan Koloff, saving the latter. [18] At Clash of the Champions VI on April 2, 1989 he defeated former rival Butch Reed. Before the match, he was accompanied to the ring by a jazz ...