The then "WWF" started a gem event in 1988 when they came up with the "Royal Rumble" event the headline and attraction is a battle royal type, with the only difference is that with 20 grapplers they draw an ordered number, in which they enter the ring then ever 2 minutes another contestant enters! And when a wrestler is thrown over the top rope they are out of the match and the last man standing is the winner! It was wild ring action it was hard to watch as many wrestlers duked it out at the same moment! And the bad guys would help the bad guys fight against the good guys! The key to a victory was to draw a late number! Anyway this first one from Canada(and oddly enough televised on the "USA" cable network before the rumbles would later become annual "PPV" events) was well remembered and fun as mister "Hi Oh!" "Hacksaw Jim Duggan would be the winner as he was clever and a brute and he outsmarted the One Man Gang to become the first ever Rumble winner!
The 88 Royal Rumble had it teases as it featured bad guy Dino Bravo trying to break the world bench press record(you make the call I believe he got a little help from ex wrestler and bad guy commentator Jesse Ventura). And the program featured a contract signing for a world title rematch between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant.
Other undercard matches were pretty good as the opening grudge match was full of action between Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and the now late Rick Rude, which ended in a DQ victory for the Dragon. And two tag matches that involved winner take two out of three falls, the last match(which was oddly after the main attraction of the Royal Rumble battle) a tag match that featured the Islanders winning against the injured duo of the Young Stallions. And very memorable and exciting high flying fun was the second match that being a women's world tag team championship match between The Glamour Girls and The Jumping Bomb Angels. As the Japanese duo angels(who were attractive and could do some athletic moves) would become world tag team champs, really this match was a wild card treat. Overall well done "WWF" event the classic first one which started the yearly tradition of "The Royal Rumble".
The 88 Royal Rumble had it teases as it featured bad guy Dino Bravo trying to break the world bench press record(you make the call I believe he got a little help from ex wrestler and bad guy commentator Jesse Ventura). And the program featured a contract signing for a world title rematch between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant.
Other undercard matches were pretty good as the opening grudge match was full of action between Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and the now late Rick Rude, which ended in a DQ victory for the Dragon. And two tag matches that involved winner take two out of three falls, the last match(which was oddly after the main attraction of the Royal Rumble battle) a tag match that featured the Islanders winning against the injured duo of the Young Stallions. And very memorable and exciting high flying fun was the second match that being a women's world tag team championship match between The Glamour Girls and The Jumping Bomb Angels. As the Japanese duo angels(who were attractive and could do some athletic moves) would become world tag team champs, really this match was a wild card treat. Overall well done "WWF" event the classic first one which started the yearly tradition of "The Royal Rumble".