old carney focused on getting himself over

His mic skills really went downhill when he left after 1987. He's very annoying as a face.

1992
Very popularly considered to be the best ever, and the first time the Royal Rumble actually MEANT something specific. With the vacated title on the line, the event was suddenly much more than the "money and prestige" event that Monsoon had pushed it in the past. A lot of the participants were in no way even outside contenders to win - Repo Man, Berzerker, I'm looking at you specifically - but there were enough viable competitors in Savage, Flair, Sid, Undertaker, et al, that there was enough uncertainty in the air to make you glue your eyes to that screen. I, and I beleive many others, had kind of assumed that this was Hogan's time to get the title back, and I was straight-up astounded when Flair, the consummate NWA/WCW champion, became the man in the land of Hulkamania. Though, I honestly did have it in the back of my head that "they're really hyping Flair's early entry, maybe there's something to that" but by the time the match ended I had concluded that they were just trying to beef up Hogan's victory. My personal favorite moment in the match is when Flair tosses the only other guy currently in the match and Heenan screams "FLAIR DID IT! FLAIR'S THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD!" When barely half of the field had entered the match.
And for crying out loud if you don't think the commentary on this Rumble is the best in the history of the PPV then clearly you have an ass for a brain. Heenan and Monsoon's exchanges, especially Heenan's anguished cries throughout the show and his insufferable celebration at the end. Just Flair's entrance carries more commentary gold than several entire Rumbles.

Match: A+
Commentary: A+
Winner: A+

He was better than shiovanne

1993
God this sucks.
They made the right decision by making the Rumble a battle for the title shot at Wrestlemania, since after last year, going back to the "A WINNER IS YOU" format would have been a letdown. That being said THIS RUMBLE IS ASS. The competitors were boring, the pacing was bad, and the ending was retarded. I think - or at least I WANT to think that Savage was supposed to just stay on top of Yokozuna to get kicked out over the top and forgot, leading to him just returning to the pinfall position, but we have what we have and it's dumb as hell. The only points of relief in the match came of course from the commentary - Heenan's (oddly historically ironic) questioning whether Ric Flair could be arrested for beating up the elderly Bob Backlund (whose record-setting endurance run was also boring and Monsoon and Heenan marveling over Giant Gonzalez - "Who is this guy?" "As far as I'm concerned he can be whatever he wants!" And of course Yokozuna went on to win the title at Wrestlemania and I'm not even going to talk about that because fuck you that's why.

Match: D
Commentary: A
Winner: D

I can't agree with that at all. At least Tony seemed to know where he was and what he was looking at.

Also I'm pretty sure Piper called the event the Survivor Series at one point.

I was at least entertained by pipers unpredictable rantings, in a a so bad its good sort of way. Tony just bores the shit out of me.

Yeah but Jesse ripping into him on numerous occasions at least made me laugh.

Tony Schiavone on WWF tv/ppv is just too bizarre.

I still find it odd seeing him on those old ppv's.

But did WWE ruin him too?

go drown your sorrows elsewhere.

Are you going to claim you changed then call me an asshole two seconds later?