Talking Shop w/ The Boss & The Boss, News Spliff: History of The Royal Rumble




 Talking Shop w/ The Boss & The Boss, News Spliff: History of The Royal Rumble

By Mike Vanek

The History of the Royal Rumble

The Royal Rumble was the brainchild of the late Pat Patterson and the first one was originally an episode of Saturday Nights Main Event on 2/21/1987 and was won by the mighty Hercules and was one of the go-home events for WMIII... The storyline was Andre eliminated Hogan easily where it took 8 men to eliminate Andre The Giant... 

The Royal Rumble is a pay-per-view consisting of the Royal Rumble match, title matches, and various other matches. The first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live on the USA Network. The following year, the event started to be broadcast on pay-per-view and thus became one of WWE's "big four" pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Survivor Series, and SummerSlam.



The men's Royal Rumble match is usually located at the top of the card, though there have been exceptions, such as 1988, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006, 2013, and 2018 events. Due to the Rumble match taking up a large amount of time (most Rumble matches last roughly one hour), the Rumble event tends to have a smaller card than most other pay-per-view events, which routinely have six to eight matches per card. The 2008 Royal Rumble was the first WWE pay-per-view to be available in high-definition. The 2018 Royal Rumble was the first to include a women's Royal Rumble match, which was the main event for that year; it is now standard for the event to include a men's and women's match. Since 2019, the Royal Rumble has been usually held in baseball stadiums


1987 Royal Rumble on Saturday Nights Main Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uioTsmL2keE&t=953s

Source Material Via Wikipedia, Conrad Thompson, & Dave Meltzer



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