Royal Rumble (1993)

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Royal Rumble 1993 was the eighth Royal Rumble event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 3rd January 1993

## Background

The main match heading into the show is the Royal Rumble Match, in which the winner will be getting a WWF Championship shot at Wrestlemania 9.

At Survivor Series, Ric Flair defeated Hulk Hogan and became WWF champion, with this result Four Horsemen were all traded to RAW. In their first show, they invaded every match injuring half of the RAW roster, the week afterwards new GM of RAW Harley Race decided to hold a supershow even with only half of the roster as he had a battle royal take place to determine the NO1 contender to the title, surprisingly Men on a Mission's Mabel was the winner. Mabel has pretty much managed to get Flair down everytime they meet each other but no one believes Mabel will become champion

In an episode of RAW after Summerslam, a fatal 4 way was set to determine the NO1 contender to Koko B.Ware's WWF Championship, Mr.Perfect perfectplexed Hogan right onto Owen Hart and posed to the camera as he didn't realize Hogan was pinning Owen because of this as he got the win, Koko decided to add Perfect to the match as he should have won, Hulk Hogan ended up winning the WWF Championship at In Your House 4. Perfect sets his sights on Hogan as he wants to beat what was once the greatest star WWF had to offer. At RAW 53, he turned heel during a 4 vs 4 between Empire vs Hulk Hogan, Perfect, Owen Hart and Roddy Piper as he beat up Hogan. Eventually he would cost Hogan a chance at getting back the WWF championship he lost to Ric Flair and this match was made.

After Summerslam with Big Boss Man losing his policeman position because he let Nailz run from his sentence, he had to revert back to his Big Bubba name and became homeless, an altercation happened between him and Nailz on the streets which led to both men getting arrested on the same cage. On it, Nailz revealed to Bubba that he didn't beat him fairly at Summerslam, he took fivestarmeth, it's not illegal as it's not technically a drug, it just makes you wrestle better than your opponent and he knows how to cook it. After this Nailz and Bubba began to regularly team up as they got closer and closer. At RAW 62, they were involved in a tag team turmoil for NO1 contendership of the RAW tag titles, they took an insane amount of fivestarmeth and defeated The Bushwhackers, Natural Disasters and Luger and Bret Hart, respectively. Doctors have warned Nailz that if he takes much more, he might collapse really soon but tonight they face Headbangers for the RAW tag titles

During the RAW that half of the roster was injured, Lex Luger, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels faced 3 local talent due to the lack of the roster. Shockingly, one of the talent rolled up Shawn and they managed to win as Harley Race signed them all to RAW contracts. Those 3 men were Sean Waltman, Tony Halme and Bryan Clark. They kept getting beat up by Four Horsemen every week after that but they decided that wasn't enough as they challenged the Lucky Trio to another 6 men tag team match tonight, Sean Waltman was the one who got the surprise rollup and got the most popularity being renamed "The Kid"

At Survivor Series, Men on a Mission and Strike Force defeated Headshrinkers and Natural Disasters in the classic 4 on 4 Survivor Series tag team match. Tonight, they face each other with the winner getting their own brand's tag title match at Wrestlemania, since Mabel was involved in the WWF Championship match, their manager Oscar will fill in for him tonight

## Results

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### Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

Barry Horowitz disappeared through the lights after eliminating IRS

## Details

* Backstage, business is booming for Big Bubba and Nailz who continue selling their drug, even Big Boss Diesel shows up and buys some, Nailz passes out
* Tony Halme and Bryan Clark beat up The Kid after the match for having gained more popularity than them
* The medical staff say Nailz took too much fivestarmeth and is in no condition to wrestle tonight, Big Bubba has to win the tag titles handicap
* Demolition Smash debuts a new gimmick at number 1 as Repo Man
* Barry Horowitz comes back from the dead but with a new outfit as this is clearly a brainwashed and dark Barry Horowitz, he eliminates IRS before disappearing through the lights
* Luger and Bret both eliminated each other and touched the floor at the same time, Harley Race came out and declared both men as the winners of the Royal Rumble