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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 ...
Studd held a number of championships over his career, including the NWA American Heavyweight Championship, NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship, NWA Canadian heavyweight title and was the winner of the 1989 Royal Rumble. He was posthumously inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame in 1995 and the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2004.
The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were dubbed the "Big Four". [2]
[5] [6] In the WWF/WWE, he is a three-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, [7] nine-time WWE Hardcore Champion, [8] one-time World Tag Team Champion, and two-time WWE Tag Team Champion. [9] Runnels has also appeared in the fourth most Royal Rumble matches, at 13. Runnels headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WWE (then WWF) and WCW during ...
Rhodes returned to WCW in 1991 as a member of WCW's booking committee, making his first appearance only 11 days after his last WWF appearance at the Royal Rumble. [38] On the May 25 edition of World Championship Wrestling he launched an interview segment called "The Bull Drop Inn". [54]
The two teams staged an epic two out of three falls match at the first Royal Rumble event in 1988, with the Bomb Angels capturing the gold. [2] Kai and Martin recaptured the title months later in Japan before the belts were once again abandoned. [2] In 1989, Martin wrestled Rockin' Robin for the WWF Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble. She ...