Royal Rumble (1991)

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Royal Rumble 1991 was the sixth Royal Rumble event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 6th January 1991

## 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 V.

Haku has been completely dominating since he won the WWF Championship, going through legends easily defeating Ultimate Warrior at G1 Finals 1990, Hulk Hogan at Survivor Series 1990, Ted Dibiase at SNME December 1990 and WCW Heaviweight Champion Ric Flair at WAR 1, he steps it up a notch tonight as he has challenged himself to face a tag team in a handicap match to retain the WWF Championship, the team that stepped up was Legion of Doom

At Summerslam 1990, Mr.Perfect and Texas Tornado tried to get British Bulldog to join The Ringmasters and they could reach heights unimaginable in wrestling, Bulldog responded with a lowblow to Perfect and Dusty Rhodes attacked Tornado with these 2 aligning themselves, since then Ringmasters have feuded with this new team, starting at Survivor Series Jim Neidhart also attacked Perfect which caused Bret Hart to come out for the save as those 2 have been feuding since Wrestlemania 6, the rivalries clash tonight in a big 3 on 3 match

Roddy Piper defeated Koko B.Ware to win the Intercontinental Championship at SNME December which made the crowd hate him as everyone loves Koko, Piper turned heel slapping Koko right on the face when he issued his rematch for tonight

Rick Martel has been the biggest advocate for the New Generation of talent helping in any way he could, he took it a step too far at Summerslam 1990 as when Undertaker was about to tombstone Hulk Hogan in a match for the WWF Championship, Rick Martel put a chair there to help without Taker seeing and Hogan landed right on his head on the chair as Undertaker defeated him to win the WWF Championship, this caused controversy in President Gorilla Monsoon's eyes, he demanded a rematch between the 2 and that rematch ended in a double count-out, with 2 controversial finishes Monsoon decided to strip the WWF Championship off Undertaker, since this Undertaker has chokeslammed Rick Martel at any chance he gets because his help was useless and it just made him lose the title, Martel has called Taker ungrateful and he's not afraid of him so he challenged him tonight

## Results

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### Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

Randy Savage was not a participant in the match

## Details

* Roddy Piper is celebrating his win when Randy Savage returns for the first time since Wrestlemania 3 where Roddy Piper ended his career, Savage says he wants his damn career back and that he has waited way too long to wrestle again but he gets thrown out by security as Piper laughs
* Haku decides after his match that he wants to be the first ever man to win the Royal Rumble as WWF Champion and choose his challenger
* Randy Savage eliminated Roddy Piper without being a participant in the match
* Final 4 were: Andre The Giant, Haku, The Undertaker and British Bulldog
* Haku broke the record of most eliminations in a Royal Rumble set by Hulk Hogan in 1987 with 7, Haku eliminated 10. He also broke the record for longest time in a single rumble set also by Hulk Hogan in 1987 with 43:15, Haku was in it for 44:27

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