5 best Royal Rumble performances of all time
The Royal Rumble is about to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The high-profile match is one of the most recognizable and unique matches in all of pro wrestling.
The unpredictable nature of a new Superstar entering the match every two minutes makes it so special. There have been many great individual performances in the history of the Royal Rumble, and these are the five best.
# 1 Yokozuna -1993
The 1993 Royal Rumble was the first Rumble in which the winner gets to face the world champion in the main event of Wrestlemania. This is something that WWE fans automatically associate with the Royal Rumble today, but when the Royal Rumble was first created there was no prize for the winner of the match.
Except for the pride of being the winner of the winner of the Royal Rumble and maybe a crown. It wasn't until five years after the first Rumble that the tradition of the winner earning a world title shot at Wrestlemania.
The winner that year, the giant Yokozuna. Even though he entered late in the contest at number 27 he still had a dominating performance. Seven eliminations en route to a Rumble victory makes his performance one of the most dominant by a Royal Rumble winner. Yokozuna's seven eliminations were not the most in a single Rumble or even the most by the eventual winner of the Royal Rumble.
What makes his performance so dominating and impressive is that he entered at number 27. When he entered the match there were already seven other men in the match. Two more Superstars entered after him. Meaning that he eliminated all but two of the Superstars he could have eliminated.
With the last Superstar he eliminated being the Macho Man Randy Savage because for some reason Savage tried to pin Yokozuna. Yokozuna almost instantly threw Savage off of him and out of the ring to win the 1993 Royal Rumble match.