BWE Uncovered: Royal Rumble Edition!

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Now here's your host, David Funk!!!!
Funk: Welcome everyone to BWE Uncovered! This is a show where we look at pro wrestling from the past and now in the present. This is a show I did on my Sporting News blog as Big Sooners fan over two years ago. And what a show we have for you tonight! Since WWE's Pay-Per-View is this Sunday, this show will be about the Royal Rumble both past and present.
-News and card for the Royal Rumble
-BWE Recall flashes back to some facts about past Royal Rumble events.
-PPV Vault flashes back to the very first Royal Rumble event.

So now let's look at the news regarding this Sunday's PFV.....


Here are the announced participants: Fit Finlay, Mark Henry, CM Punk, R-Truth, Carlito, The Brian Kendrick, Triple H, Big Show, Vladimir Kozlov, Shelton Benjamin, Undertaker, Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, The Miz, John Morrison, Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase Jr, Santino Marella, Kane. There are nine other participants in the match that have not been announced or will be known on Sunday. Shawn Michaels is likely going to be one of them.

-World Heavyweight Champion John Cena defends the title against JBL. I'm thinking they'll have Cena retain because I see no point in JBL holding the title now.

-WWE Champion Jeff Hardy defends the title against Edge. I think we finally will find out who's been out to setup Jeff Hardy at this event. I see Edge getting the title back.

-ECW Champion Jack Swagger defends the title against Matt Hardy. I think Swagger likely retains here.

-WWE Women's Champion Beth Phoenix defends the title against Melina. This is interesting here. Beth has been a great heel in the women's division while Melina has come all the way back. It's great to see the sexiest entrance in wrestling from Melina again though!

Notes on the event.....
-Melina will host a live Royal Rumble BLOG on Sunday before the event that starts at 6:30pm est. She'll be on taking questions at 7:30pm est.
-The event takes place in Detroit and gets underway at 8pm est live on Pay-Per-View. This is the promotion's 22nd Royal Rumble event.

OK, now we got to our first commercial break. Coming up later, we look back at the first Royal Rumble event in 1988. But coming up next, some facts and numbers in the Pay-For-View's history!

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We're back on BWE Uncovered for this special Royal Rumble edition! Now here's some facts about the Royal Rumble that you may not know about....


Here is the list of those who won the past event matches....

1988: "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan
1989: Big John Studd
1990: Hulk Hogan
1991: Hulk Hogan
1992: Ric Flair
1993: Yokozuna
1994: Bret Hart & Lex Luger
1995: Shawn Michaels
1996: Shawn Michaels
1997: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
1998: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
1999: Vince McMahon
2000: The Rock
2001: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
2002: Triple H
2003: Brock Lesnar
2004: Chris Benoit
2005: Batista
2006: Rey Mysterio
2007: Undertaker
2008: John Cena

-Most match wins: Steve Austin with three
-Longest time in a match: Rey Mysterio lasted 1:02:12 in 2006.
-Shortest time in a match: Warlord lasted two seconds in 1989.
-Most overall eliminations: Steve Austin with 36 total.
-Most eliminations in one match: Kane with 11 in 2001.
-Most consecutive match appearances: Kane with 10(1999-2008). It will be 11 this year.
-Longest match: 2002 event lasted 1:09:23.
-Shortest match(30 participants): 1995 event lasted about 38 minutes.

-Only three times in match history has the heel won: Ric Flair, Yokozuna, and Batista. Batista turned babyface before that year's WrestleMania took place.
-The 2004 match is not listed on the previous winners page on WWE as Benoit was the winner. This is due to the circumstances surrounding his death in 2007.
-Chyna is still the only woman to ever compete in the match having done so in 1999.
-The 2005 match was supposed to see Batista clothes-lining Cena out of the ring to win. But he over-rotated, and both fell to the floor at the same time. McMahon came out, and ordered the match to be restarted as Batista won. McMahon also tore his quadriceps coming to the ring.
-Out of the previous match winners, three are now deceased: Big John Studd, Yokozuna, and Chris Benoit.
-Ric Flair is the only man in history to win the elimination match with the WWF/E Title on the line.

Now let's take our last commercial break. When we return, we flashback to the first ever Royal Rumble event! Back after this!

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We're back on BWE Uncovered! Now let's take a look back at the first ever Royal Rumble event that happened in 1988.....


-Date: January 24, 1988
-Location: Copps Coliseum; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
-Attendance: 18,000

Here are the match results and elimination order for the Royal Rumble event:

-Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat defeated Rick Rude by DQ after Rude pulled the referee into him while Steamboat jumped off the top rope.

-The Jumping Bomb Angels defeated The Glamour Girls in a 2 out of 3 falls match to win the WWF Tag Team Titles.

-The Islanders defeated The Young Stallions in a 2 out of 3 falls match.

Here is the elimination order for the participants in the Royal Rumble match(when they entered listed with them):

1. Butch Reed(3)
2. Tito Santana(2)
3. Boris Zhukov(10)
4. Harley Race(6)
5. Jim Brunzell(7)
6. Jim Neidhart(4)
7. Sam Houston(8)
8. Bret Hart(1)
9. B. Brian Blair(15)
10. Jake "The Snake" Roberts(5)
11. Nikolai Volkoff(12)
12. Hillbilly Jim(16)
13. Danny Davis(9)
14. Ultimate Warrior(18)
15. The Junkyard Dog(20)
16. Ron Bass(14)
17. Don Muraco(11)
18. Dino Bravo(17)
19. One Man Gang(19)
Winner-"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan came in at No.13.

Notes: This was shown on live TV on the USA network, then became a PPV event the next year. This is also the only time that 20 participants were in the Royal Rumble event when there has been 30 every other time. This event was very unique in that every minute, another wrestler enters the ring in this elimination battle royal. Now it is every 90 seconds. You have no idea who is coming out next either, and the booker cleverly picks the order of entry to make the event interesting.

WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson is credited with coming up with the concept of an elimination match. His idea was pointed out just weeks before the event took place.

This was the biggest accomplishment for Duggan other than being crowned at one time because he never held a WWF title while he wrestled there. The One Man Gang is given credit for eliminating the most wrestlers for this event with six. Duggan eliminated three wrestlers with One Man Gane being the last one. The two had a long feud in Mid-South/UWF Wrestling before coming to the WWF/E.

This event also saw the contract signing between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant in a rematch for the WWF Title from WrestleMania III on the next Main Event telecast. That show was where Hogan's initial reign as champion came to and end.

The Young Stallions tag team was Paul Roma and Jim Powers. They were preliminary jobbers for the most part, and Roma went on to be a member of the Four Horseman in WCW while Powers jumped ship, too.

Steamboat and Rude would later have an intense feud in WCW after both had left the company. Steamboat would fair better in WCW winning their promotion's championship while Rude was often a main eventer there, too.

The Glamour Girls(Lelani Lai and Judy Martin) would win the belts back, but the titles would be retired the next year after the lack of crowd responses in women's matches. Now only two titles exist in WWE with one on each brand.

That's our show for this edition of BWE Uncovered! Thanks for tuning in! We'll see you for the next edition! So long everybody!

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