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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]
In 1989, Honky entered the Royal Rumble, where he was eliminated by Tito Santana and Bushwhacker Butch. [16] In late 1989 and 1990, he and Greg Valentine , who was also managed by Jimmy Hart, aligned themselves as the tag team Rhythm and Blues in which Valentine became a Roy Orbison rip-off since Honky was an Elvis rip-off. [ 1 ]
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 1990 Royal Rumble was the third annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 21, 1990, at the Orlando Arena in Orlando, Florida .
Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987. In what has become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, which were dubbed the "Big Four". [1]
The Road to WrestleMania 40 begins with the WWE Royal Rumble 2024 being held Saturday, Jan. 27 at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET at Tropicana Field in Florida. Find out how to stream the live event, get full ...
In addition to WrestleMania in March, Royal Rumble in January, and Survivor Series in November, McMahon created an event for August, which he named SummerSlam. It was scheduled to be held on August 29, 1988, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. To keep the WWF from having a pay-per-view market monopoly, Turner began airing ...