The Rock entered the match at No. Steve Austin entered amid great speculation that he had been attacked in the backstage area. He went on an impressive run, as one would assume he would, and ended the match by tossing Rock from the ring and picking up his second consecutive Royal Rumble victory.
The Austin story built some drama for the match as there were questions as to whether Austin would be able to dodge his fellow Superstars long enough to even make an appearance in the match itself. Mick Foley was one of two MVPs in the match, appearing as Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love throughout the bout and really solidifying himself as one of the more complete performers in WWE as the company prepared for the biggest boom in its history.
A huge minute run for the self-proclaimed Great One cemented him as the breakout star in the company and one that had the potential to achieve great things in the coming 12 months. A bad Rumble from a quality standpoint but one of the signature matches of the early Attitude Era days. The match highlighted three very key members of the Attitude Era, as Steve Austin, Mick Foley and The Rock shined brightest and really captured, and held, fans' attention throughout.
Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Create a list ». Top 32 royal rumble pay per views of all time. Austin told Cole to park the car and not scratch it followed by Austin walking into the arena. The Godwinns showed up asking where Austin went. Analysis: The story was that Austin was a big favorite to win the Rumble match, so every wrestler was looking for him to try to take him out of the Rumble match.
Sunny made her entrance for the minis match. The short shorts she was wearing were popular. The minis entered for the match. Nova with a headscissors on Tarantula, who missed a charge and hit the mat.
Nova with a dropkick that sent Tarantula out of the ring. Max with three arm drags that sent Battalion out of the ring and as soon as somebody was sent out of the ring, another wrestler could go into the ring as the legal man. Torito with a press slam on Mosaic followed by Torito launching Mosaic in the air. Mosaic with an arm drag that sent Torito out of the ring. Tarantula with a running clothesline on Mosaic.
Nova with a dropkick on Battalion to send him out of the ring. Nova with a hip toss on Torito, then several arm drags. They showed Mike Tyson laughing about it. Mosaic with a headscissors on Battalion three times to send him out of the ring. Max tagged in leading to Tarantula kicking him down.
Tarantula with a clothesline on Max, who went to the apron and then up top with a headscissors. Max is 87 pounds according to JR as Max slammed Tarantula down. Max sent Tarantula out of the ring, Max slapped him to knock him and Torito kicked Max in the back. Battalion with a kick on Max. Lawler was firing off short jokes during the match.
Torito knocked down Max with a punch, then they did a comedy spot where Sunny picked up Max to help him kick the heels down. Mosaic with an arm drag followed by dive onto Battalion on the floor. Torito with a dive onto the floor. Max hit a springboard corkscrew off the middle ropes, Tarantula with a suicide dive and Nova hit a moonsault off the middle ropes.
Back in the ring, Torito missed a splash on Max, who went up top and Max hit a headscissors takeover, arm drag and a cradle pin was enough for Max to get the win at It sounds like WWE dubbed in fake crowd noise for the finish.
If you like armdrags this is the match for you because there were about 20 of them in this match. It was a match to kill time. It was filler. There were highlights shown of Ken Shamrock beating three members of the Nation of Domination three straight weeks in a row. The Rock entered to the Nation of Domination theme song.
Rock was wearing the Intercontinental Title around his waist. Rock was not joined by any Nation of Domination members for the match.
Ken Shamrock got a good pop for his entrance. Shamrock was really winning over the crowd and one of the top faces in the company. Rock was gaining a lot of momentum every week.
Ken Shamrock was the babyface challenger. There was a slow start early as Shamrock got in a punch, then Rock backed away, Rock connected with punches and Shamrock came back with a kick followed by a punch that led to Rock bumping over the top to the floor. When Rock got back in the ring, he took control with a clothesline. Shamrock came back for two clotheslines, but when he went for a hurricanrana, Rock countered by sending him into the top rope for a two count.
Good counter wrestling there. Rock stomped on Shamrock against the turnbuckle to keep the challenger grounded. They left the ring with Rock sending Shamrock into the steel steps and then back in the ring, Shamrock came back with punches. Rock countered a clothesline attempt with a tremendous floatover DDT that Rock would do many times in his career. Rock slapped on a chinlock to ground Shamrock for about a minute.
Rock tried another DDT, but Shamrock countered into an overhead suplex. Shamrock sent Rock into the ropes followed by a powerslam. Shamrock sent Rock into the turnbuckle followed by a hurricanrana, which was impressive. The referee was busy trying to free Brown, so Rock punched Shamrock with the brass knuckles on his hand.
Shamrock hit a belly to belly suplex on Rock leading to the pinfall win at The referee reversed the decision to a disqualification victory for The Rock. It was a way to keep the title on Rock, add more heat to the rivalry and build the crowd support for Shamrock. Post match, Rock left with his buddies. Shamrock grabbed referee Chioda and gave him a belly to belly suplex to a huge pop from the crowd. Shamrock slapped on the Ankle Lock on Chioda, who was quickly tapping the mat.
Analysis: It was a good post match angle that popped the crowd because they were mad that Shamrock lost. As I said above, it was a creative way to end it and the fans cheered Shamrock for attacking the referee because they know Rock was the one that cheated, not Shamrock. It worked in terms of making Shamrock more popular. I think this rivalry really benefitted both guys in the long run.
The story would continue after this. I liked the rivalry a lot. The fans were solidly behind Shamrock as a face that they wanted to see and Rock was gaining heat week after week as a heel that knew how to piss off the crowd. This feud really helped both guys in terms of being bigger stars in WWE.
I also thought the pop for Shamrock attacking the referee was ridiculously loud, which again shows how much the fans liked Shamrock at this point. Mike Tyson was shown watching the show from the press box with Shane McMahon joining him up there. The Boricuas were shown backstage looking for Steve Austin, they went into a room and attacked a bald guy.
It was one of the Disciples of Apocalypse guys, so that led to a brawl between the two crappy stables. Animal said that New Age Outlaws will get their butts kicked. LOD made their entrance to a pretty good ovation. Legion of Doom Hawk and Animal. This was two months after the New Age Outlaws first won the titles. It started out with Animal hitting a Powerbomb on Dogg for two as Gunn made the save on the pin attempt.
Gunn and Dogg tried to walk away, but LOD brought them back in the ring. Hawk with a running shoulder block on Dogg, corner clothesline and a boot to the face.
Animal tagged in with a back elbow followed by a choke as Dogg was bleeding from the mouth. Hawk tagged in with a neckbreaker. Dogg with an eye poke, Gunn tagged in and Hawk took him down with a Thesz Press followed by punches. Animal tagged in with a belly to back suplex. Dogg whipped Animal into the steel steps to make him the face in peril.
Hawk hit both Outlaws with a double clothesline even though Animal was the legal man. Hawk missed a corner charge and hit the ring post with his shoulder, which led to Hawk bumping to the floor. Dogg got handcuffs and he cuffed Hawk to the ring post that was connected to the bottom turnbuckle.
The Outlaws went after Animal, who came back with a double clothesline. Animal with a jumping shoulder tackle on Gunn for two. Gunn with an eye poke on Animal, Gunn up top and Animal turned it into a powerslam. Dogg hit Animal in the back with a chair, so that led to the DQ finish at There was a weird format to the match with LOD on offense for too much of the first half of the match, then the heels worked over Animal for a few minutes and that led to the finish.
It was a lame finish too. After the match, Dogg hit Animal in the back with a steel chair multiple times. Hawk was helpless at ringside due to being handcuffed to the turnbuckle. Gunn hit a splash off the middle ropes onto the back of Animal. Hawk broke the handcuffs, he went into the ring and hit both Outlaws in the head with chairshots.
The Outlaws left to boos while Hawk checked on Animal. Analysis: The rivalry continued after that controversial finish although it did not get much better. I thought this rivalry sucked. It was boring to watch. It did help NAO get over more, so I guess it did accomplish that goal. They gave the truck away.
The fans booed when they saw Tyson on screen again. Howard Finkel announced the rules for the Royal Rumble match. A graphic said that the intervals for entrants are 2 minutes each, but they were really between 90 to seconds. We start with Cactus Jack at 1, who comes out with trash cans. Cactus throws chairs into the ring. Charlie hits him with the back with some chair shots and they do some dueling chairshot spots. Charlie begs for a chair shot and Cactus delivers a blow to the head.
He stumbles around. Then Cactus gives Charlie a chair and he delivers two shots to his head.
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