Royal Rumble

The Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every January by professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The event was created in 1988 with the inaugural event held on January 24, 1988 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. The event however was not a pay-per-view but was originally shown as a television special on USA Network. The following year's event was the first Royal Rumble pay-per-view event. The first Royal Rumble match was won by Jim Duggan. The event's main feature is a Battle Royal-type match, entitled the Royal Rumble. The pay-per-view is a part of WWE's "Big Four", along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series. The Royal Rumble has been classified as being one of WWE's most popular pay-per-view events.
==History==
===Match===
The match is based on the traditional battle royal match, in which 30 participants, aim at eliminating their competitors by tossing them over the top rope, with both feet touching the floor. The winner of the event is the last participant remaining after all others have been eliminated. The inaugural match in 1988 featured 20 entrants. At the 2011 Royal Rumble, for the first time 40 entrants were scheduled to compete; the most in the history of the event.
The Royal Rumble differs from a battle royal as the contestants do not enter the ring at the same time but instead are assigned entry numbers, usually via lottery, although they can win guaranteed, desirable spots via a number of other means, the most common being winning a match. This usually takes place before the Rumble begins. The match begins with the two participants who have drawn entry numbers one and two, with the remaining competitors entering the ring at regular timed intervals, either ninety seconds or two minutes, according to their entry number. These peculiarities are credited to Pat Patterson.
The match has no stipulations or rules other than that elimination must occur by a participant being placed over the top rope and both feet touching the floor. If they have any other part of the body touching they are out as well. A wrestler who exits the ring without going over the top rope is not eliminated from the contest. For example, during the 1999 Rumble match, both Vince McMahon and Steve Austin left the ring, only to return later in the match. Elimination is also valid if brought about by an external force (such as a non-participant or a previously eliminated participant). For instance, in 2006, Shawn Michaels was eliminated from the match by Shane McMahon, who was never admitted in the match and simply was interfering to eliminate Michaels. It also happened in the 1998 match match when Triple H and Chyna worked together to eliminate Owen Hart. In the 1994 match, the last two participants Bret Hart and Lex Luger were declared co-winners when it was decided that both of their feet touched the floor at exactly the same time. A similar situation occurred in the 2005 match, however the match was restarted after Batista and John Cena eliminated each other at the same time. Batista eliminated Cena afterwards to win the match. Though various referees are charged with observing the match, some eliminations have remained unnoticed with the eliminated participant sneaking back into the ring to continue. For example, Stone Cold Steve Austin was eliminated this way during the 1997 event but re-entered and eventually won the match.
The reward for the 1992 Royal Rumble was the WWF Championship. The tradition of granting a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania started in 1993. Despite being introduced in late 2002, it was not until 2004 that a winner had the option to choose a match for the World Heavyweight Championship instead of the WWE Championship at WrestleMania. With the revival of the ECW World Championship in mid-2006, the title became a third option for the winner to choose since the 2007 event. From 2001 to 2007, the Royal Rumble match winner had gone on to win a World Championship title at WrestleMania. After winning the 2008 match, John Cena became the first winner to use his championship opportunity at an event (No Way Out 2008) other than WrestleMania. He also became the first man since 2000 to win the Royal Rumble match but fail to win the title in his championship opportunity as a result.
The Rumble winner may also put his championship opportunity on the line in a match, if he chooses. This was first done in 1999, when Stone Cold Steve Austin offered to forfeit his title opportunity to the Big Boss Man, who won third place in the Rumble (Austin was actually the runner-up in that rumble, but the winner - Vince McMahon himself - had voluntarily given up his title opportunity) if Vince McMahon could beat him in a cage match at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House, which Austin would go on to win. The second time that this happened was in 2006, when Randy Orton goaded Rey Mysterio into putting his main event spot at WrestleMania 22 on the line at No Way Out, which Orton would go on to win. Mysterio was eventually reinserted into the main event at WrestleMania and went on to win the World Championship match.
===Event===
The Royal Rumble is a pay-per-view consisting of the Royal Rumble match, championship matches, and various other matches. The first Royal Rumble took place on January 24, 1988 and was broadcast live on the USA Network. The following year, the event was rebranded as a pay-per-view. It is part of WWE's "classic four" pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Survivor Series, and SummerSlam. The 2008 Royal Rumble was the first WWE pay-per-view to be available in high-definition.
The Royal Rumble match is usually located at the top of the card, though there have been exceptions such as the 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, and 2013 events.
The first Rumble match featured only twenty men, It lasted approximately thirty-three minutes of the two-hour broadcast. The modern Rumble matches are much longer, with the longest match, at the Royal Rumble 2011, lasting over one hour and nine minutes of an approximately three-hour pay-per-view(with 40 entrants).
With the brand extension introduced in mid-2002, the 30 entrants from 2003 to 2006 consisted of 15 wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown brands. At first, the winner of the match received a shot at their brand's champion. Starting in 2004, the Rumble winner had the option of challenging any brand's champion. For instance, Chris Benoit switched brands in 2004 and won the World Heavyweight Championship. From 2007 to 2010, participants from the ECW brand competed along with the Raw and SmackDown brands, while the ECW World Championship became available for the winner to challenge for regardless of their designated brand. During ECW's participation, the entries for each brand were not evenly divided.
== Royal Rumble match ==
The first Royal Rumble took place on January 24, 1988 in Hamilton, Ontario. Jim Duggan won, and the first pay-per-view Rumble occurred a year later. Pat Patterson has been credited with "inventing" the match.
===Rules===
The Royal Rumble is comprised of 30 men; beginning with two men in the ring, and at regular timed intervals (usually, but not always, every 90 seconds), one of the remaining 28 wrestlers enters the ring. Participants must eliminate all other opponents and the winner of the event is the last wrestler remaining after all others have been eliminated. Referees are situated at each side of the ring to validate eliminations.
A wrestler is eliminated when leaving the ring over the top rope, and then having both feet touch the floor (although this latter specification was not specified until the 1995 Royal Rumble, where the "both feet" stipulation played a crucial role in the final moments of the match). Going out between the second and third rope or under the bottom rope is not a valid elimination. A referee must witness an elimination in order for it to be valid (in 2000, X-Pac was eliminated by The Rock but since it was not seen by any of the referees, X-Pac re-entered the ring and continued the match until he was officially eliminated by The Big Show).
An elimination can also occur when a wrestler is thrown off the top rope by a non-competing opponent, or by one who had already been eliminated, or when the participant deliberately jumps over the top rope, outside the ring. In other words, if a wrestler goes over the top rope, regardless how it happened, that wrestler is out. Other wrestlers can be de facto eliminated due to interference preventing the wrestler from entering the ring (examples being Spike Dudley in 2004 and Scotty 2 Hotty in 2005).
===Rewards for winning===
Since the 1993 event, the winner has officially been given the chance to challenge the WWE Champion at WrestleMania. The stipulation stemmed from 1992, when the Royal Rumble decided who would win the then-vacant WWF Championship (Ric Flair won the match).
With the introduction of the brand extension and separate brand championships in 2002, the possibility of a World Heavyweight Championship shot instead of the WWE Championship was added to the reward in 2003's match. Due to the revival of the ECW World Championship as a brand championship in mid-2006, the 2007 event added this championship to the winning stipulation.
This championship match is often the last event on the WrestleMania card according to principles in the WWE that states that "the Royal Rumble winner gets a first-class ticket to WrestleMania", which means that the Royal Rumble winner gets to be in the 'first class' top spot in the main event at WrestleMania. In some cases, this can be part of a stipulation for a match between the Rumble and WrestleMania, where the winner may lose his WrestleMania spot by losing another match.
In the 2016 Rumble, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was defended, when then-champion Roman Reigns, as the #1 entrant, put his title on the line against 29 other competitors. Triple H won the match and thus the championship after entering the match at the coveted #30 spot. It was Triple H's second Rumble victory of his career.
===Brand extension===
With the brand extension introduced in mid-2002, the 30 entrants from 2003 to 2006 consisted of 15 wrestlers from the RAW brand and 15 from the SmackDown! brand. This makes it therefore, one of the few pay-per-view events (and certain combined non-televised shows held around WrestleMania time) with inter-brand competition on a regular basis. The official declaration for the first post-brand extension event in 2003, was that the Rumble winner faced their brand's champion at WrestleMania, but starting in 2004, due to a supposed "loophole" in the Rumble's stipulations, the Rumble winner has the option of challenging either brand's champion (Chris Benoit switched brands in 2004 and won the World Heavyweight Championship, which was the basis for a storyline the following year when Batista won the Rumble, but ultimately remained on RAW).
The 2007 Royal Rumble marked the first year participants from the 2006-established ECW brand competed along with the RAW and SmackDown! brands. Unlike previous years where each brand got an even split of wrestlers, the 2007 Rumble featured 13 wrestlers from RAW, 10 from SmackDown! and 7 from ECW. The winner of the Royal Rumble now also has the option to challenge for the ECW World Championship.
== Royal Rumble dates and venues ==
Event 	Date 	City 	Venue
Royal Rumble 1988	January 24, 1988	Hamilton, Ontario 	Copps Coliseum
Royal Rumble 1989	January 15, 1989	Houston, Texas 	The Summit
Royal Rumble 1990	January 21, 1990	Orlando, Florida 	Orlando Arena
Royal Rumble 1991	January 19, 1991	Miami, Florida 	Miami Arena
Royal Rumble 1992	January 19, 1992	Albany, New York 	Knickerbocker Arena
Royal Rumble 1993	January 24, 1993	Sacramento, California 	ARCO Arena
Royal Rumble 1994	January 22, 1994	Providence, Rhode Island 	Providence Civic Center
Royal Rumble 1995	January 22, 1995	Tampa, Florida 	USF Sun Dome
Royal Rumble 1996	January 21, 1996	Fresno, California 	Selland Arena
Royal Rumble 1997	January 19, 1997	San Antonio, Texas 	Alamodome
Royal Rumble 1998	January 18, 1998	San Jose, California 	San Jose Arena
Royal Rumble 1999	January 24, 1999	Anaheim, California 	Arrowhead Pond
Royal Rumble 2000	January 23, 2000	New York, New York 	Madison Square Garden
Royal Rumble 2001	January 21, 2001	New Orleans, Louisiana 	New Orleans Arena
Royal Rumble 2002	January 20, 2002	Atlanta, Georgia 	Philips Arena
Royal Rumble 2003	January 19, 2003	Boston, Massachusetts 	Fleet Center
Royal Rumble 2004	January 25, 2004	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wachovia Center
Royal Rumble 2005	January 30, 2005	Fresno, California 	Save Mart Center
Royal Rumble 2006	January 29, 2006	Miami, Florida 	American Airlines Arena
Royal Rumble 2007	January 28, 2007	San Antonio, Texas 	AT&T Center
Royal Rumble 2008	January 27, 2008	New York, New York 	Madison Square Garden
Royal Rumble 2009	January 25, 2009	Detroit, Michigan 	Joe Louis Arena
Royal Rumble 2010	January 31, 2010	Atlanta, Georgia 	Philips Arena
Royal Rumble 2011	January 30, 2011	Boston, Massachusetts 	TD Garden
Royal Rumble 2012	January 29, 2012	St. Louis, Missouri 	Scottrade Center
Royal Rumble 2013	January 27, 2013	Phoenix, Arizona 	US Airways Center
Royal Rumble 2014	January 26, 2014	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 	CONSOL Energy Center
Royal Rumble 2015	January 25, 2015	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wells Fargo Center
Royal Rumble 2016	January 24, 2016	Orlando, Florida 	Amway Center
Royal Rumble 2017	January 29, 2017	San Antonio, Texas 	Alamodome
Royal Rumble 2018	January 28, 2018	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Wells Fargo Center
Royal Rumble 2019	January 27, 2019	Phoenix, Arizona 	Chase Field
Royal Rumble 2020	January 26, 2020	Houston, Texas 	Minute Maid Park
Royal Rumble 2021	January 31, 2021	St. Petersburg, Florida 	Tropicana Field
Royal Rumble 2022	January 29, 2022	St. Louis, Missouri 	The Dome at America's Center
Royal Rumble 2023	January 28, 2023	San Antonio, Texas 	Alamodome
Royal Rumble 2024	January 27, 2024	St. Petersburg, Florida 	Tropicana Field
==Royal Rumble Winners==
Year	Winners 	Entry	Runner-Ups
1988	Hacksaw Jim Duggan 	13 	One Man Gang
1989	Big John Studd 	27 	Ted Dibiase
1990	Hulk Hogan 	25 	Mr. Perfect
1991	Hulk Hogan 	24 	Earthquake
1992	Ric Flair 	3 	Sycho Sid
1993	Yokozuna 	27 	Randy Savage
1994	Bret Hart 	27 	Shawn Michaels
1994	Lex Luger 	23 	Fatu
1995	Shawn Michaels 	1 	British Bulldog
1996	Shawn Michaels 	18 	Diesel
1997	Stone Cold Steve Austin	5 	Bret Hart
1998	Stone Cold Steve Austin	24 	The Rock
1999	Vince McMahon 	2 	Stone Cold Steve Austin
2000	The Rock 	24 	Big Show
2001	Stone Cold Steve Austin	27 	Kane
2002	Triple H 	22 	Kurt Angle
2003	Brock Lesnar 	29 	The Undertaker
2004	Chris Benoit 	1 	Big Show
2005	Batista 	28 	John Cena
2006	Rey Mysterio 	2 	Randy Orton
2007	The Undertaker 	30 	Shawn Michaels
2008	John Cena 	30 	Triple H
2009	Randy Orton 	8 	Triple H
2010	Edge 	29 	John Cena
2011	Alberto Del Rio 	38 	Santino Marella
2012	Sheamus 	22 	Chris Jericho
2013	John Cena 	19 	Ryback
2014	Batista 	28 	Roman Reigns
2015	Roman Reigns 	19 	Rusev
2016	Triple H 	30 	Dean Ambrose
2017	Randy Orton 	23 	Roman Reigns
2018	Shinsuke Nakamura 	14 	Roman Reigns
2018	Asuka 	25 	Nikki Bella
2019	Seth Rollins 	10 	Braun Strowman
2019	Becky Lynch 	28 	Charlotte Flair
2020	Drew McIntyre 	16 	Roman Reigns
2020	Charlotte Flair 	17 	Shayna Baszler
2021	Edge 	1 	Braun Strowman
2021	Bianca Belair 	3 	Natalya
2022	Brock Lesnar 	30 	Drew McIntyre
2022	Ronda Rousey 	28 	Charlotte Flair
2023	Cody Rhodes 	30 	Gunther
2023	Rhea Ripley 	1 	Liv Morgan
2024	Cody Rhodes 	15 	CM Punk
2024	Bayley 	3 	Liv Morgan
==Royal Rumble to WrestleMania Story==
Year	Winner 	Winner	Following WrestleMania	Opponent at WrestleMania 	Winner 	Championship Won
1988	Jim Duggan 	13 	WrestleMania IV 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
1989	Big John Studd 	27 	WrestleMania V 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
1990	Hulk Hogan 	25 	WrestleMania VI 	The Ultimate Warrior 	The Ultimate Warrior	WWF Championship
1991	Hulk Hogan 	24 	WrestleMania VII 	Sgt. Slaughter 	Hulk Hogan 	WWF Championship
1992	Ric Flair 	3 	WrestleMania VIII 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
1993	Yokozuna 	27 	WrestleMania IX 	Bret Hart 	Yokozuna
1 	WWF Championship
1994	Bret Hart 	27 	WrestleMania X 	Yokozuna 	Bret Hart 	WWF Championship
1994	Lex Luger 	23 	WrestleMania X 	Yokozuna 	Yokozuna 	WWF Championship
1995	Shawn Michaels 	1 	WrestleMania XI 	Diesel 	Diesel 	WWF Championship
1996	Shawn Michaels 	18 	WrestleMania XII 	Bret Hart 	Shawn Michaels 	WWF Championship
1997	Steve Austin 	5 	WrestleMania XIII 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
1998	Steve Austin 	24 	WrestleMania XIV 	Shawn Michaels 	Steve Austin 	WWF Championship
1999	Vince McMahon 	2 	WrestleMania XV 	N/A 	N/A 	N/A
2000	The Rock 	24 	WrestleMania XVI 	Triple H (c), Mick Foley & The Big Show 	Triple H 	WWF Championship
2001	Steve Austin 	27 	WrestleMania XVII 	The Rock 	Steve Austin 	WWF Championship
2002	Triple H 	22 	WrestleMania XVIII 	Chris Jericho 	Triple H 	WWF Undisputed Championship
2003	Brock Lesnar 	29 	WrestleMania XIX 	Kurt Angle 	Brock Lesnar 	WWE Championship
2004	Chris Benoit 	1 	WrestleMania XX 	Triple H (c) & Shawn Michaels 	Chris Benoit 	World Heavyweight Championship
2005	Batista 	28 	WrestleMania XXI 	Triple H 	Batista 	World Heavyweight Championship
2006	Rey Mysterio 	2 	WrestleMania XXII 	Kurt Angle (c) & Randy Orton 	Rey Mysterio 	World Heavyweight Championship
2007	The Undertaker 	30 	WrestleMania XXIII 	Batista 	The Undertaker 	World Heavyweight Championship
2008	John Cena 	30 	WrestleMania XXIV 	Randy Orton (c) & Triple H 	Randy Orton 	WWE Championship
2009	Randy Orton 	8 	WrestleMania XXV 	Triple H 	Triple H 	WWE Championship
2010	Edge 	29 	WrestleMania XXVI 	Chris Jericho 	Chris Jericho 	World Heavyweight Championship
2011	Alberto Del Rio 	38 	WrestleMania XXVII 	Edge 	Edge 	World Heavyweight Championship
2012	Sheamus 	22 	WrestleMania XXVIII 	Daniel Bryan 	Sheamus 	World Heavyweight Championship
2013	John Cena 	19 	WrestleMania XXIX 	The Rock 	John Cena 	WWE Championship
2014	Batista 	28 	WrestleMania XXX 	Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton 	Daniel Bryan 	WWE World Heavyweight Championship
2015	Roman Reigns 	19 	WrestleMania XXXI 	Brock Lesnar 	Seth Rollins 	WWE World Heavyweight Championship
2016	Triple H 	30 	WrestleMania XXXII 	Roman Reigns 	Roman Reigns 	WWE World Heavyweight Championship
2017	Randy Orton 	23 	WrestleMania XXXIII 	Bray Wyatt 	Randy Orton 	WWE Championship
2018	Shinsuke Nakamura	14 	WrestleMania XXXIV 	AJ Styles 	AJ Styles 	WWE Championship
2018	Asuka 	25 	WrestleMania XXXIV 	Charlotte Flair 	Charlotte Flair 	WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
2019	Seth Rollins 	10 	WrestleMania XXXV 	Brock Lesnar 	Seth Rollins 	WWE Universal Championship
2019	Becky Lynch 	28 	WrestleMania XXXV 	Ronda Rousey (c; Raw) and Charlotte Flair (c; SmackDown)	Becky Lynch 	WWE Raw Women's Championship & WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
2020	Drew McIntyre 	16 	WrestleMania XXXVI 	Brock Lesnar 	Drew McIntyre 	WWE Championship
2020	Charlotte Flair 	17 	WrestleMania XXXVI 	Rhea Ripley 	Charlotte Flair 	NXT Women's Championship
2021	Edge 	1 	WrestleMania XXXVII 	Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan 	Roman Reigns 	WWE Universal Championship
2021	Bianca Belair 	3 	WrestleMania XXXVII 	Sasha Banks 	Bianca Belair 	WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
2022	Brock Lesnar 	30 	WrestleMania XXXVIII 	Roman Reigns 	Roman Reigns 	WWE Championship & WWE Universal Championship
2022	Ronda Rousey 	28 	WrestleMania XXXVIII 	Charlotte Flair 	Charlotte Flair 	WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
2023	Cody Rhodes 	30 	WrestleMania XXXIX 	Roman Reigns 	Roman Reigns 	WWE Championship & WWE Universal Championship
2023	Rhea Ripley 	1 	WrestleMania XXXIX 	Charlotte Flair 	Rhea Ripley 	WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
1 Immediately after Yokozuna's match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania IX, Hulk Hogan defeated Yokozuna, marking the second shortest WWF/E Championship reign in history.
2 The match was originally Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XXXI but Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract while the match was still in progress and it turned into a Triple Threat Match.
==Records, statistics and trivia==
* Steve Austin has won the most Royal Rumble matches, with three victories (the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Rumbles).
* Rey Mysterio has spent the longest time in a Royal Rumble when in 2006 he lasted a time of 1:02:12. Conversely, Santino Marella has spent the shortest time in a Royal Rumble when in 2009 he lasted a time of 1.7 seconds, after being eliminated by Kane.
* The longest Royal Rumble match was held in 2011 with a time of 1:10:10, the longest with 30 entrants was the 2002 Royal Rumble at 1:09:22. The shortest Royal Rumble match was held in 1988 with a time of 33:00. It should be noted that that match only had 20 entrants. The shortest Royal Rumble with 30 entrants was the 1995 Royal Rumble at 38:39, where entrants entered at 60 second intervals.
* Kane currently has the most consecutive appearances in the Rumble with 17 appearances from 1999 to 2016.
* In 1998, Mick Foley made the most appearances in a single Rumble, when he entered as Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love.
* Kane has the record for the most overall eliminations with 44. Kane passed Shawn Michaels for most eliminations in the 2016 Royal Rumble.
* Brock Lesnar has the record for the most eliminations in a single Royal Rumble, eliminating 13 superstars in the 2020 event. Roman Reigns had previously held the record, eliminating 12 superstars in the 2014 event.
* Viscera holds the record for most opponents necessary to eliminate him, with eight other wrestlers directly involved with lifting him over the top rope in the 2007 Royal Rumble. He also holds the record for second most as Mabel, who was eliminated by seven wrestlers in the 1994 Royal Rumble. Earthquake (1990), Rikishi (2000), and Muhammad Hassan (2005) share the third most, each having been eliminated by six men.
* 48% of all Royal Rumble Winners went on to win a World title at WrestleMania.
* Nine wrestlers have won two Royal Rumble matches. They are Hulk Hogan (1990 & 1991), Shawn Michaels (1995 & 1996), Steve Austin (1997 & 1998), Triple H (2002 & 2016), Brock Lesnar (2003 & 2022), Batista (2005 & 2014), John Cena (2008 & 2013), Randy Orton (2009 & 2017) and Edge (2010 & 2021).
* Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit, Edge and Rhea Ripley have won the Royal Rumble at #1, and Rey Mysterio and Vince McMahon have won it at #2, the two entry numbers theoretically least likely to allow someone to win the Rumble (since the Rumble does not begin until the first two slots are in the ring, both #1 and #2 start the match at the same time).
* Kane holds the quickest elimination of another competitor at 1.7 seconds, eliminating Santino Marella.
* Despite #30 being the best possible number to draw before the 2011 Royal Rumble, only The Undertaker (2007), John Cena (2008), Triple H (2016), Brock Lesnar (2022) and Cody Rhodes (2023) have won the Rumble from that entry number.
* The #27 slot has given more wins than any other slot, with Big John Studd, Yokozuna, Bret Hart and Steve Austin each winning a Rumble from that entry number.
* Rey Mysterio is not only the shortest winner of the Royal Rumble, but he is also the only masked wrestler to win.
* Chyna, Kharma, Beth Phoenix and Nia Jax are the only women who have ever participated in the Men's Royal Rumble and all have managed to successfully eliminate at least one superstar in the matches they competed in.
* The competitors to win the Royal Rumble match in their debut are Big John Studd, Ric Flair, Yokozuna, Lex Luger, Vince McMahon, Brock Lesnar, Chris Benoit, Alberto Del Rio and Shinsuke Nakamura. 
* John Cena spent the shortest time in a Rumble to win in 2008; entering at #30, he spent 8 minutes and 27 seconds in the match.
* The record for most consecutive eliminations is seven, set by Diesel (1994), Rikishi (2000) and The Great Khali (2007).
* Shawn Michaels currently has the longest combined time in the Royal Rumble match with a total time of 2:49:03, close runners up include Chris Benoit with 2:37:19, Steve Austin with 2:34:12, and Triple H with 2:32:25.
* Every winner of the Royal Rumble has won at least one title in the company except for Jim Duggan.
* Every winner of the Royal Rumble except for three (Jim Duggan, Lex Luger and Big John Studd) has won at least one World title in WWE.
* The record for the most consecutive wins of an entry number is the #30 slot in 2007 (The Undertaker), 2008 (John Cena), 2016 (Triple H), 2022 (Brock Lesnar) and 2023 (Cody Rhodes).
* Alberto Del Rio is the quickest newcomer to become the Royal Rumble winner after debuting at 163 days.
* Yoshi Tatsu was the last ECW entrant in the Royal Rumble match.
* No ECW superstar has won the Royal Rumble match.
* Hornswoggle is the smallest wrestler to compete in the Royal Rumble match at 4 ft 4 in tall.
* Yokozuna is the heaviest superstar to win the Royal Rumble, at over 500 pounds and The Great Khali being the tallest, at 7 ft 3 in tall.
==Video box set==
WWE released a complete DVD box set of every Royal Rumble event in its entirety (in similar fashion to the WrestleMania Anthology released in 2005). Note that the 1988-1999 events had never been released on DVD in North America (All except the 1999 event were released as Tagged Classics in UK). Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology was released on March 13, 2007.
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File:Royal Rumble 2012 Cover.png|2012
Royal rumble 2013.jpg|2013
Royal rumble 2014.jpg|2014
Royal rumble 2015.jpg|2015
Royal Rumble 2016 DVD.jpg|2016
==Event Cap Gallery==
File:RR89_cap.jpg|1989
File:RR90_cap.jpg|1990
File:RR91_cap.jpg|1991
File:RR92_cap.jpg|1992
File:RR93_cap.jpg|1993
File:RR94_cap.jpg|1994
File:RR95_cap.jpg|1995
File:RR96_cap.jpg|1996
File:RR97_cap.jpg|1997
File:RR98_cap.jpg|1998
File:RR99_cap.jpg|1999
File:RR00_cap.jpg|2000
File:RR01_cap.jpg|2001
File:RR02_cap.jpg|2002
File:RR03_cap.jpg|2003
royalrumble2004.jpg|2004
File:RR05_cap.jpg|2005
File:RR06_cap.jpg|2006
File:RR07_cap.jpg|2007
File:RR08_cap.jpg|2008
File:RR09_cap.jpg|2009
File:RR10_cap.jpg|2010
File:RR2011Cap.jpg|2011
File:Royal Rumble 2012.72.jpg|2012
File:RR 2013.26.jpg|2013
File:Royal_Rumble_2014.60.jpg|2014
RR15 Photo 237.jpg|2015
Royal Rumble 2016.56.jpg|2016
Royal Rumble 2017.76.jpg|2017
Royal Rumble 2018.66.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2018
Royal Rumble 2018.100.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2018
RR 2019 70.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2019
RR 2019 48.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2019
Royal Rumble 2020 64.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2020
Royal Rumble 2020 30.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2020
RR 2021 52.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2021
RR 2021 32.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2021
Royal Rumble 2022.55.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2022
Royal Rumble 2022.19.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2022
Royal Rumble 2023 Men's Royal Rumble6.jpg|Men's Royal Rumble 2023
Royal Rumble 2023 Women's Royal Rumble6.jpg|Women's Royal Rumble 2023
==Logos==
RoyalRumbleLogo1.jpg
WWE-Royal-Rumble-Logo.png
RoyalRumbleLogo2.jpg
RoyalRumbleLogo3.gif
RoyalRumbleLogo4.jpg
Royal Rumble 2011 Logo.jpg
WWE Royal Rumble 2016 Logo.jpg
Rumble.gif
WWE-Royal-Rumble-Logo 2017.png
Royal Rumble 2022 logo.png
==External links==
*Royal Rumble Official Website
*Official Twitter
*WWE.com: Royal Rumble match description
* Royal Rumble on WWE Network
Royal Rumble
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