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To celebrate the release of WWE Royal Rumble 2016 on DVD and Blu-Ray, we’ve teamed up with WWE to offer you the chance to win one Blu-Ray and an Exclusive A3 sized printed Road to WrestleMania Infographic.
This year’s Royal Rumble was a bit different to normal as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was on the line for the first time ever. The 1992 event saw a vacant title up for grabs, but this was the first time a Superstar had been forced to defend his gold against 29 other men.
Unlucky, Roman Reigns.
As well as the Rumble match itself, this was the pay per view that saw Dean Ambrose defend his Intercontinental Championship against Kevin Owens in a Last Man Standing match; The New Day defended their Tag Team Championships against The Usos; Kalisto challenge Alberto Del Rio for the United States Championship; while Charlotte and Becky...
To celebrate the release of WWE Royal Rumble 2016 on DVD and Blu-Ray, we’ve teamed up with WWE to offer you the chance to win one Blu-Ray and an Exclusive A3 sized printed Road to WrestleMania Infographic.
This year’s Royal Rumble was a bit different to normal as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship was on the line for the first time ever. The 1992 event saw a vacant title up for grabs, but this was the first time a Superstar had been forced to defend his gold against 29 other men.
Unlucky, Roman Reigns.
As well as the Rumble match itself, this was the pay per view that saw Dean Ambrose defend his Intercontinental Championship against Kevin Owens in a Last Man Standing match; The New Day defended their Tag Team Championships against The Usos; Kalisto challenge Alberto Del Rio for the United States Championship; while Charlotte and Becky...
- 3/21/2016
- by Ross Tweddell
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The Royal Rumble has long been one of the most interesting and exciting concepts created by the WWE and provides the opportunity for examples of showmanship and spectacle that most matches don’t. Since its inception in 1988, it has been won by some of the biggest stars in wrestling history, but it’s not always the winners that steal the show.
Pat Patterson is credited with creating that match and coming up with the idea to have entrants enter one at a time which leaves matches tending to last for at least an hour. Initially there were only twenty competitors, and once there were forty, but more often than not there are thirty superstars in a traditional Royal Rumble match.
The Royal Rumble match offers up-and-coming superstars to show off everything they can do, and main event players can remind people why they have that spot. More than any other wrestling match,...
The Royal Rumble has long been one of the most interesting and exciting concepts created by the WWE and provides the opportunity for examples of showmanship and spectacle that most matches don’t. Since its inception in 1988, it has been won by some of the biggest stars in wrestling history, but it’s not always the winners that steal the show.
Pat Patterson is credited with creating that match and coming up with the idea to have entrants enter one at a time which leaves matches tending to last for at least an hour. Initially there were only twenty competitors, and once there were forty, but more often than not there are thirty superstars in a traditional Royal Rumble match.
The Royal Rumble match offers up-and-coming superstars to show off everything they can do, and main event players can remind people why they have that spot. More than any other wrestling match,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Kieran Shiach
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The old Christmas song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” is very fitting when it comes to the first pay per view of the WWE each year, the Royal Rumble. It is the official beginning to the “Road To Wrestlemania” as the winner of the Rumble match has a guaranteed shot at the title at Wrestlemania a couple months later. Though we have Battle Royal matches a few times throughout the year, nothing is like the Royal Rumble match, and that is why it is a special time.
Each year (with the exception of a couple), 30 superstars will enter the match, and only one will become victorious. One great thing that is associated with the Royal Rumble are the stats that come with it. While we’ll review those stats and numbers later on this month, on this article, we are going to focus on...
The old Christmas song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” is very fitting when it comes to the first pay per view of the WWE each year, the Royal Rumble. It is the official beginning to the “Road To Wrestlemania” as the winner of the Rumble match has a guaranteed shot at the title at Wrestlemania a couple months later. Though we have Battle Royal matches a few times throughout the year, nothing is like the Royal Rumble match, and that is why it is a special time.
Each year (with the exception of a couple), 30 superstars will enter the match, and only one will become victorious. One great thing that is associated with the Royal Rumble are the stats that come with it. While we’ll review those stats and numbers later on this month, on this article, we are going to focus on...
- 1/7/2015
- by Jeremy Bennett
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The 1990 Royal Rumble came at a time when it felt like WWE was ready to make some big changes. Even though Hulk Hogan was still the man, it was the 1990s and there were questions about how long he was going to keep being featured as the top guy.
The Ultimate Warrior was really catching fire and gaining popularity while Hogan was in his sixth year as the top guy. Both were in the Rumble match, so if we were looking at it the way we look at wrestling 25 years later, the smart thinking would be for Warrior or somebody else to win the match. That’s not what happened, though.
It was also a time when the roster wasn’t really that good on the heel side. There were the likes of Mr. Perfect, Ted Dibiase and Randy Savage in heel roles. They are some of the best heels ever,...
The 1990 Royal Rumble came at a time when it felt like WWE was ready to make some big changes. Even though Hulk Hogan was still the man, it was the 1990s and there were questions about how long he was going to keep being featured as the top guy.
The Ultimate Warrior was really catching fire and gaining popularity while Hogan was in his sixth year as the top guy. Both were in the Rumble match, so if we were looking at it the way we look at wrestling 25 years later, the smart thinking would be for Warrior or somebody else to win the match. That’s not what happened, though.
It was also a time when the roster wasn’t really that good on the heel side. There were the likes of Mr. Perfect, Ted Dibiase and Randy Savage in heel roles. They are some of the best heels ever,...
- 1/4/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The 1989 Royal Rumble was a historic show because it was the first time the Rumble was a pay-per-view show. The previous year’s Rumble was a three hour event on USA Network that was done as a counter to an Nwa PPV on the same night. After the success of that show in 1988, WWE decided to make it an annual PPV event.
With the launch of the Rumble as an annual January PPV event, it meant that WWE would have four standard PPVs every year with the Rumble starting the year off, then WrestleMania in late March or early April, SummerSlam in August and Survivor Series in November. They became known as the “big four” events in the WWE year until King of the Ring started in 1993 and monthly PPVs began in 1995.
The WWE Champion going into the show was Randy Savage, who held the title for nearly ten months at this point.
The 1989 Royal Rumble was a historic show because it was the first time the Rumble was a pay-per-view show. The previous year’s Rumble was a three hour event on USA Network that was done as a counter to an Nwa PPV on the same night. After the success of that show in 1988, WWE decided to make it an annual PPV event.
With the launch of the Rumble as an annual January PPV event, it meant that WWE would have four standard PPVs every year with the Rumble starting the year off, then WrestleMania in late March or early April, SummerSlam in August and Survivor Series in November. They became known as the “big four” events in the WWE year until King of the Ring started in 1993 and monthly PPVs began in 1995.
The WWE Champion going into the show was Randy Savage, who held the title for nearly ten months at this point.
- 1/2/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The Royal Rumble is one of WWE’s biggest shows of the year. For a lot of fans, it’s second only to WrestleMania. WWE likes to bill it as one of their “big four” because it’s an event that goes back to 1988 as a regular January show that was a great way to build things up to WrestleMania in the spring.
Throughout the month of January, I’ll be posting “7 Things You Should Know” about every Royal Rumble event starting with the first one in 1988 right up to the 2014 event. A new one will be posted every day leading up this year’s Royal Rumble on January 25. Since there are 27 of them in all, there will be a couple of days with two posts that go up. Be sure to visit WhatCulture daily to see all of the Royal Rumble features this month.
To start it all off,...
The Royal Rumble is one of WWE’s biggest shows of the year. For a lot of fans, it’s second only to WrestleMania. WWE likes to bill it as one of their “big four” because it’s an event that goes back to 1988 as a regular January show that was a great way to build things up to WrestleMania in the spring.
Throughout the month of January, I’ll be posting “7 Things You Should Know” about every Royal Rumble event starting with the first one in 1988 right up to the 2014 event. A new one will be posted every day leading up this year’s Royal Rumble on January 25. Since there are 27 of them in all, there will be a couple of days with two posts that go up. Be sure to visit WhatCulture daily to see all of the Royal Rumble features this month.
To start it all off,...
- 1/1/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
We are back again for our second live blog of the 2013 awards season and tonight it's the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards and it's sort of fun to say that tonight there is actually a reason to watch and pay attention for anyone the least bit interested in the awards race. Will Best Ensemble go to Lincoln? Argo? Silver Linings Playbook? Will it be Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) or Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) taking home Best Actress? And what about Supporting Actor? will it be Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) or Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)? I think it's safe to assume Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) and Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) will go home winners tonight, but otherwise it's a wide open show. You can check out the full list of nominees for both movies and television right here and the results of the RopeofSilicon reader predictions here.
- 1/27/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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