Best Royal Rumble Undercard

[Xero]

Which Royal Rumble do you feel had the strongest undercard? And by "undercard", I mean everything but the Rumble itself.

Results as followed, from http://prowrestling.about.com/od/ringresults/a/royalrumble.htm :

Royal Rumble 1988 - Copps Coliseum; Hamilton, Ontario 1/24/1988
- Ricky Steamboat beat Rick Rude by DQ
- WWF Women's Tag Team Title: The Jumping Bomb Angels beat Lelani Kai & Judy Martin in a best of 3 falls match to win the titles
- Dino Bravo bench pressed a record 712 pounds
- Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan signed a contract to fight on NBC
- Best of 3 falls match: The Islanders beat The Young Stallions

Royal Rumble 1989 - The Summit; Houston, TX 1/15/89
- Best of three falls: The Hart Foundation & Jim Duggan beat Dino Bravo, and The Rougeau Brothers 2 falls to 1
- Women's Title: Champion Rockin' Robin pinned Judy Martin
- Posedown Challange: Ultimate Warrior & Rick Rude flexed their muscles for the crowd, Rick Rude attacked Ultimate Warrior before a winner could be announced
- Winner gets "King's Crown": Haku beat Harley Race

Royal Rumble 1990 - Orlando Arena; Orlando, FL 1/21/90
- The Bushwhackers pinned The Rougeau Brothers
- Brutus Beefcake & Lanny Poffo fought to a double-DQ
- I Quit Match: Ron Garvin forced Greg Valentine to submit
- Jim Duggan beat The Big Bossman by DQ

Royal Rumble 1991 - Miami Arena; Miami, FL1/19/1991
- The Rockers beat The Orient Express
- Big Bossman beat The Barbarian
- The Mountie pinned Koko B. Ware
- Ted DiBiase & Virgil beat Dusty & Dustin Rhodes
- WWF Title Match: Sgt. Slaughter won the title from The Ultimate Warrior

Royal Rumble 1992 - Knickerbocker Arena; Albany, NY 1/19/92
- Owen Hart & Jim Neidhart beat The Orient Express
- I-C Title: Roddy Piper pinned The Mountie to win the title
- The Beverly Brothers beat The Bushwhackers
- Tag Team Title: The Natural Disasters beat the Champs Legion of Doom by count out

Royal Rumble 1993 - Arco Arena; Sacramento, CA 1/24/93
- The Steiner Brothers beat The Beverly Brothers
- I-C Title: Champion Shawn Micheals pinned Marty Jannetty
- Bam Bam Bigelow beat Big Bossman
- WWF Title: Champ Bret Hart beat Razor Ramon by sumbmission

Royal Rumble 1994 - Providence Civic Center; Providence, RI 1/22/94
- Tatanka pinned Bam Bam Bigelow
- Tag Team Title: Champions The Quebecers beat Owen & Bret Hart when the ref decided that Bret Hart was to injured to continue. After the match, Owen attacked his brother.
- I-C Title: Champion Razor Ramon beat Rick Martel
- Casket Match for WWF Title: Champion Yokozuna beat The Undertaker

Royal Rumble 95 - Sun Dome; Tampa, FL 1/22/95
- I-C Title: Jeff Jarrett wins the title from Razor Ramon
- The Undertaker pinned IRS
- WWF Title: Champion Diesel & Bret Hart wrestled to a draw
- Tag Team Title Tournament Final: The Kid & Bob Holly beat Bam Bam Bigelow & Tatanka to win the vacant title. After the match Bam Bam Bigelow shoved Lawrence Taylor.

Royal Rumble 96 - Convention Center; Fresno, CA 1/21/96
- Duke Droese beats Hunter Hearst Helmsley by reverse decision to enter the rumble last and Hunter had to enter first
- Ahmed Johnson beat Jeff Jarrett by DQ
- Tag Team Title: Champs The Smokin' Guns beat The Bodydonnas
- I-C Title: Goldust beat Razor Ramon to win the title
- WWF Title: The Undertaker beat Champion Bret Hart by DQ.

Royal Rumble 1997 - Alamo Dome; San Antonio, TX 1/19/97
- La Parkita & Mascarita Sagrada beat Mini Vader & Mini Mankind
- I-C Title: Champion Hunter Hearst Helmsley beat Goldust
- Ahmed Johnson beat Farooq by DQ
- Vader beat The Undertaker
- Hector Garza, Perro Aguayo, & Canek beat Jerry Estrada, Fuerza Guerrera, & Heavy Metal
- WWF Title: Shawn Michaels beat Sid to regain the title

Royal Rumble 1998 - San Jose Arena; San Jose, CA 1/18/98
- Vader beat Goldust
- Max Mini, Nova, & Mosaic beat Tarantula, El Torito, & Battalion
- I-C Title: Champ The Rock beat Ken Shamrock by DQ
- Casket Match for WWF Title: Shawn Michaels beat The Undertaker. During the match, Shawn landed incorrectly on the coffin & suffered a back injury that would lead to him being out of the ring for 5 years.

Royal Rumble 1999 - Arrowhead Pond; Anaheim, CA 1/24/99
- Big Bossman beat Hardcore champ Jesse James in a non-title match
- I-C Title: Champ Ken Shamrock beat Billy Gunn
- European Title: Champ X-Pac beat Gangrel
- Women's Title: Champ Sable beat Luna in a strap match
- I Quit Match for WWF Title: The Rock beat Mankind to win the title

Royal Rumble 2000 - Madison Square Garden; New York, NY 1/23/00
- In his WWF debut Tazz beat Kurt Angle
- Tables Match: The Hardy Boyz beat The Dudley Boyz
- Mae Young won the Miss Royal Rumble contest
- I-C Title: Co-champ Chris Jericho beat co-champ Chyna & Bob Holly to become undisputed champ
- Tag Team Titles: Champions The New Age Outlaws beat The APA
- Street Fight for WWF Title: Champion Triple H beat Cactus Jack

Royal Rumble 2001 - New Orleans Arena; New Orleans, LA 1/21/01
- Tag Team Title: The Dudley Boyz beat Edge & Christian to win the belts
- Ladder Match for I-C Title: Chris Jericho beat Chris Benoit to win the title
- Women's Title: Champ Ivory beat Chyna
- WWF Title: Champ Kurt Angle beat Triple H

Royal Rumble 2002 - Philips Arena; Atlanta, GA 1/20/02
- Tag Team Title: Champs Tazz & Spike Dudley beat The Dudley Boyz
- I-C Title: William Regal beat Edge to win the title
- Women's Title: Champ Trish Stratue beat Jazz. Jacquelyn was referee.
- Streetfight: Ric Flair beat Vince McMahon
- WWF Title: Chris Jericho beat The Rock to retain the title

Royal Rumble 2003 - Fleet Center; Boston, MA 1/19/03
- Royal Rumble Qualifying Match: Brock Lesnar beat The Big Show
- Raw Tag Team Title: The Dudley Boyz beat Lance Storm & William Regal to win the titles - Torrie Wilson beat Dawn Marie
- World Heavyweight Title: Scott Steiner beat Champ Triple H by DQ.
- WWE Title: Champ Kurt Angle beat Chris Benoit

Royal Rumble 2004 - Wachovia Center; Philadelphia, PA 1/25/04
- Table Match for World Tag Team Titles: Champions Ric Flair & Batista beat The Dudley Boyz
- Cruiserweight Title: Champion Rey Mysterio Jr. beat Jamie Knoble
- Eddie Guerrero beat Chavo Guerrero
- WWE Title: Champion Brock Lesnar beat Bob Holly
- Last Man Standing for World Heavyweight Title: Champion Triple H & Shawn Michaels fought to a draw

Royal Rumble 2005 - Save Mart Arena; Fresno, CA 1/30/05
- Edge beat Shawn Michaels
- Casket Match: The Undertaker beat Heidenreich
- WWE Title: Champ JBL beat Kurt Angle & The Big Show
- World Heavyweight Title: Champ Triple H beat Randy Orton

Royal Rumble 2006 - American Airlines Arena; Miami, FL 1/29/06
- Cruiserweight Open Invitational: Gregory Helms beat Champ Kid Kash, Funaki, Paul London, Nunzio, and Jamie Knoble
- Mickie James beat Ashley. Trish Stratus was guest referee
- The Boogey Man beat JBL
- WWE Title: John Cena beat Edge to win the title
- World Heavyweight Title: Champ Kurt Angle beat Mark Henry

Royal Rumble 2007 - AT&T Center; San Antonio, TX 1/28/07
- The Hardy Boyz beat MNM
- ECW Title: Champion Lashley beat Test by count out
- World Heavyweight Championship: Champ Batista beat Kennedy
- Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Title: Champ John Cena beat Umaga

Royal Rumble 2008 - Madison Square Garden; New York, NY 1/27/08
- Flair’s Career on the Line: Ric Flair beat MVP
- JBL beat Chris Jericho by DQ
- World Heavyweight Title: Champion Edge beat Rey Mysterio
- WWE Championship: Champion Randy Orton beat Jeff Hardy

Royal Rumble 2009 - Joe Louis Arena; Detroit, MI 1/25/09
- ECW Title: Champion Jack Swagger beat Matt Hardy
- Women’s Title: Melina won the title from Beth Phoenix
- World Heavyweight Championship: Champion John Cena beat JBL
- No DQ Match for the WWE Championship: Edge beat Jeff Hardy to win the title

Royal Rumble 2010 - Philips Arena; Atlanta, GA 1/31/10
- ECW Championship: Champion Christian beat Ezekiel Jackson
- US Championship: Champion The Miz beat MVP
- WWE Championship: Champion Sheamus beat Randy Orton by DQ
- Women's Championship: Mickie James beat Michelle McCool to win the title
- World Heavyweight Championship: Champion The Undertaker beat Rey Mysterio

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Royal Rumble 2001. Even the match with Chyna was short, sweet and furthered her feud with Ivory.

Honorable mention to Royal Rumble 1988 for the 2 out of 3 fall tag team match with the Jumping Bomb Angels and the Glamour Girls.

[Fox]

Torn here between 2000 and 2003.

2000 had a brilliant undercard. Tazz' debut, Hardyz/Dudleyz tables match, a few fillers and then the incredible Cactus Jack/HHH Street Fight.

2003 had some basic shit but then Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit was an absolute 5 star classic.

[MoFo]

2001, I still mark for that Walls of Jericho over the top of the ladder......

[CSL]

1991 is the first one that came to mind because I'm such a huge bitch for The Rockers/Orient Express match. After skimming the list, I'd probably say 2000.

[XCaliber]

2001 since I felt it was the most soild of all them.

[Rollermacka]

I'm actually gonna say 1996. Very solid matches that had the IC, Tag Team and World titles all on the line

[dhellova guy]

1994 is always what I think of when I think about the Royal Rumble. Taker vs Yoko, while corny, was memorable, and the Bret vs Owen fued really took off from here.

[VSG]

2000, I was really into the street match and the rest of the card only accentuated the whole event. It was in fuckin' MSG and had the Tazz debut as well. No complaints there.

[Nicky Fives]

2000 or 2001

[Londoner]

2000 easily for me.

[thedamndest]

1994 is wrong. Razor beat IRS.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

2000 has to be disqualified for seeing the fake nude (Something about Mary style) of Mae Young.

[Jeritron]

2000, I think.

[Rammsteinmad]

2001 and 2001 were very solid, entertaining shows from top to bottom, but I'll probably have to go with 2003. Mainly for the Benoit/Angle match. The Steiner/HHH match, whilst far from being a technical classic, wasn't as bad as people make it out to be (ok, it wasn't brilliant, but I can tolerate it).

[Volare]

I actually went with 98. Mike Tyson was there, hinting all night that he was going to be on RAW and that he had something to do with Wrestlemania 14. Everyone and their mom was waiting on Austin's music to hit that night, as he was the "human target" in the rumble match.

Vader vs Goldust was a solid match to open the PPV and got everything rolling perfectly.

The 6 man mini match was good, but that's only cause Sunny was the ref.

Rock vs Ken Shamrock was actually a good match, and I did enjoy it. Especially during the dusty finish with the placed knucks in Shamrock's trunks. (Random fact, in 98 Rock vs Shamrock was on all the Big PPV's (RR, WM, KOTR, SSeries) minus Summerslam, that was Rock vs HHH in the Ladder match for the IC Title. Funny how they kept pairing Shamrock with Rock that whole year. (Rock won at RR and WM, and SSeries. While Shamrock's main win vs Rock was KOTR when he beat Rock in the finals.

[Loose Cannon]

fuck, this is tough. some really good one's. And they are all in the 2000-2004 era

[Loose Cannon]

2001 yea. that's mine

[bigslimjj]

I actually went with 98. Mike Tyson was there, hinting all night that he was going to be on RAW and that he had something to do with Wrestlemania 14. Everyone and their mom was waiting on Austin's music to hit that night, as he was the "human target" in the rumble match.

Vader vs Goldust was a solid match to open the PPV and got everything rolling perfectly.

The 6 man mini match was good, but that's only cause Sunny was the ref.

Rock vs Ken Shamrock was actually a good match, and I did enjoy it. Especially during the dusty finish with the placed knucks in Shamrock's trunks. (Random fact, in 98 Rock vs Shamrock was on all the Big PPV's (RR, WM, KOTR, SSeries) minus Summerslam, that was Rock vs HHH in the Ladder match for the IC Title. Funny how they kept pairing Shamrock with Rock that whole year. (Rock won at RR and WM, and SSeries. While Shamrock's main win vs Rock was KOTR when he beat Rock in the finals.
I totally agree with you. Plus Vader did the vaderbomb on Goldy with Luna Vachon on his back. It's still one of my favorite spots ever.

[St. Jimmy]

2004

[Anybody Thrilla]

- Duke Droese beats Hunter Hearst Helmsley

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[Attitude99]

2000 Was Awesome

[Joesgonnakillyou]

It has to be 2000 for me, a few of them have one amazing match and a couple of good ones but nothing beats the debut of Tazz (unfortunately the highlight of his WWE career), that table match and the street fight. I fucking love that street fight.

[loopydate]

Royal Rumble 1994 - Providence Civic Center; Providence, RI 1/22/94
- Tatanka pinned Bam Bam Bigelow
- Tag Team Title: Champions The Quebecers beat Owen & Bret Hart when the ref decided that Bret Hart was to injured to continue. After the match, Owen attacked his brother.
- I-C Title: Champion Razor Ramon beat <s>Rick Martel</s> IRS
- Casket Match for WWF Title: Champion Yokozuna beat The Undertaker

This one got my vote. Tatanka and Bam Bam put on a pretty solid brawl, the Razor/IRS title match was good, and the other two title matches set up huge storylines that would last the rest of the year - the disappearance of the Undertaker as well as the start of the Bret/Owen rivalry after Owen kicked Bret's leg out of his... leg.