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Royal Rumble (1998)
The 1998 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the 11th annual Royal Rumble and took place on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California. Six matches were contested on the event's card. The event was based around the men's Royal Rumble match and since 1993, the winner receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 1998 event, the winner received a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV. This was the first Royal Rumble of the Attitude Era.
The main event was a casket match between Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker for the WWF Championship, which Michaels won to retain the title. The main match on the undercard was the 1998 Royal Rumble match, which "Stone Cold" Steve Austin won by lastly eliminating Rocky Maivia, becoming the third person to win two Royal Rumble matches and back-to-back, after Hulk Hogan in 1990 and 1991 and Shawn Michaels in 1995 and 1996. Additionally, The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) defeated The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn) by disqualification, therefore did not win the WWF Tag Team Championship, and "The Rock" Rocky Maivia defeated Ken Shamrock to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling event, produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988; that first event was a television special before it became an annual pay-per-view (PPV) beginning in 1989. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four", and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs with the addition of King of the Ring in 1993. It is named after and centered on the men's Royal Rumble match. The 11th Royal Rumble event was scheduled to be held on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California.
The Royal Rumble match is a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time, and the match generally features 30 wrestlers. Since 1993, the winner earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 1998, the winner earned a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV.
The event comprised six matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by the WWF's writers, while storylines were produced on WWF's weekly television show, Raw is War.
In the weeks leading up to the pay-per-view, Ken Shamrock had been facing various members of the Nation of Domination ahead of his booked match against Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia (The Rock), defeating Kama Mustafa and Faarooq with his ankle lock submission, despite interference from other Nation members. The final Raw is War before the Rumble saw Shamrock team up with Mark Henry against Maivia and D'Lo Brown. However, just as Shamrock looked to apply his ankle lock submission on The Rock, Henry turned on him, joining the Nation in giving him a post-match beat down.
After winning the team's first tag team title, the New Age Outlaws further humiliated the former champions, the Legion of Doom, by shaving one of Hawk's mohawks, and, with the help of D-Generation X, powerbombing Animal through the announcer's table, damaging his back. Although he was advised not to compete by doctors, Animal rested through the first few weeks of the year, while the Outlaws ran roughshod through the tag division before this pay-per-view.
The buildup to the Royal Rumble match itself focused almost entirely on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Austin declared that going into the Rumble, he would live by the motto "Do unto others before they do unto me". This led to Austin interfering in matches regularly on Raw is War, or appearing just as matches finished, delivering the Stone Cold Stunner to anyone in sight, as well as leaving other wrestlers backstage buried under tables, and chairs. In the final segment of the Raw is War preceding the event, all competitors of the Royal Rumble were in the ring, waiting to draw their number of entries, when Austin ran in through the crowd and began to throw punches all over the ring, sparking a brawl between the various wrestlers feuding in the ring, and kicking the number generator out of the ring.
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Royal Rumble (1998)
The 1998 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the 11th annual Royal Rumble and took place on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California. Six matches were contested on the event's card. The event was based around the men's Royal Rumble match and since 1993, the winner receives a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For the 1998 event, the winner received a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV. This was the first Royal Rumble of the Attitude Era.
The main event was a casket match between Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker for the WWF Championship, which Michaels won to retain the title. The main match on the undercard was the 1998 Royal Rumble match, which "Stone Cold" Steve Austin won by lastly eliminating Rocky Maivia, becoming the third person to win two Royal Rumble matches and back-to-back, after Hulk Hogan in 1990 and 1991 and Shawn Michaels in 1995 and 1996. Additionally, The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) defeated The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn) by disqualification, therefore did not win the WWF Tag Team Championship, and "The Rock" Rocky Maivia defeated Ken Shamrock to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
The Royal Rumble is an annual professional wrestling event, produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988; that first event was a television special before it became an annual pay-per-view (PPV) beginning in 1989. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four", and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs with the addition of King of the Ring in 1993. It is named after and centered on the men's Royal Rumble match. The 11th Royal Rumble event was scheduled to be held on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California.
The Royal Rumble match is a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time, and the match generally features 30 wrestlers. Since 1993, the winner earns a world championship match at that year's WrestleMania. For 1998, the winner earned a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV.
The event comprised six matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by the WWF's writers, while storylines were produced on WWF's weekly television show, Raw is War.
In the weeks leading up to the pay-per-view, Ken Shamrock had been facing various members of the Nation of Domination ahead of his booked match against Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia (The Rock), defeating Kama Mustafa and Faarooq with his ankle lock submission, despite interference from other Nation members. The final Raw is War before the Rumble saw Shamrock team up with Mark Henry against Maivia and D'Lo Brown. However, just as Shamrock looked to apply his ankle lock submission on The Rock, Henry turned on him, joining the Nation in giving him a post-match beat down.
After winning the team's first tag team title, the New Age Outlaws further humiliated the former champions, the Legion of Doom, by shaving one of Hawk's mohawks, and, with the help of D-Generation X, powerbombing Animal through the announcer's table, damaging his back. Although he was advised not to compete by doctors, Animal rested through the first few weeks of the year, while the Outlaws ran roughshod through the tag division before this pay-per-view.
The buildup to the Royal Rumble match itself focused almost entirely on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Austin declared that going into the Rumble, he would live by the motto "Do unto others before they do unto me". This led to Austin interfering in matches regularly on Raw is War, or appearing just as matches finished, delivering the Stone Cold Stunner to anyone in sight, as well as leaving other wrestlers backstage buried under tables, and chairs. In the final segment of the Raw is War preceding the event, all competitors of the Royal Rumble were in the ring, waiting to draw their number of entries, when Austin ran in through the crowd and began to throw punches all over the ring, sparking a brawl between the various wrestlers feuding in the ring, and kicking the number generator out of the ring.