ROYAL RUMBLE (1998)

'Royal Rumble 1998' was the eleventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on January 18 1998 at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California.

Contents

Results

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

Other on-screen talent

Notes

References

External links

Results

★ 'Vader defeated The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust (w/Luna Vachon) (7:47)'

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★ Vader pinned Goldust after a Vaderbomb while Luna was hanging on his back.

★ 'Max Mini, Mosaic and Nova defeated Battalion, El Torito and Tarantula (w/Sunny as Special Guest Referee) (7:49)'

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★ Max pinned Torito with a Cradle.

★ 'The Rock defeated Ken Shamrock by disqualification to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (10:53)'

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★ Shamrock originally pinned Rock after a belly-to-belly suplex. However, after persuasion from The Rock, the referee found a pair of brass knuckles The Rock had placed in Shamrock's trunks and Rock was given a disqualification win.

★ 'The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) defeated WWF Tag Team Champions The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) by disqualification (7:56)'

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★ NAO were disqualified after Road Dogg hit Animal with a steel chair while Animal was pinning Gunn.

★ 'Steve Austin won the 1998 Royal Rumble (55:24)'

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★ The final two participants were Steve Austin and The Rock. Steve Austin won the Royal Rumble after giving The Rock a Stone Cold Stunner and eliminating him.

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★ Mick Foley competed in the Royal Rumble match as all three of his aliases: Mankind, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack.

★ 'Shawn Michaels (w/Triple H and Chyna) defeated The Undertaker in a Casket match to retain the WWF Championship (20:37)'

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★ Michaels won when Kane chokeslammed Undertaker into the casket and closed it.

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★ During the match, Michaels took a back body drop to the outside, smashing his lower back on the casket causing him to herniate two disks and crushing one completely, leading to his four year hiatus as an active wrestler from the WWF.

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★ During the match, The New Age Outlaws and Los Boricuas interfered and attacked The Undertaker.

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★ After the match, Kane and Paul Bearer padlocked the casket with Undertaker inside it. They then poured gasoline on the casket and set it on fire.

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.

Entrant		Eliminated by		Time
1	Cactus Jack	2	Chainsaw Charlie	9:41
2	Chainsaw Charlie	6	Mankind	25:19
3	Tom Brandi	1	Cactus Jack & Chainsaw Cahrlie	0:12
4	The Rock	28	Steve Austin	51:32
5	Mosh	3	Kurrgan	13:09
6	Phineas Godwinnn	12	Mark Henry	28:48
7	8-Ball	14	Steve Austin	30:43
8	Blackjack Bradshaw	15	Dude Love	35:45
9	Owen Hart	10	by Triple H & Chyna	12:00
10	Steve Blackman	4	Kurrgan	5:58
11	D'Lo Brown	16	Faarooq	32:21
12	Kurrgan	5	8-Ball, Phinneas Godwinn, Bradshaw & Ken Shamrock	3:38
13	Marc Mero	13	Steve Austin	19:40
14	Ken Shamrock	9	The Rock	9:15
15	Thrasher	18	Steve Austin	28:08
16	Mankind	7	The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust	2:40
17	The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust	23	Chainz	26:04
18	Jeff Jarrett	8	Owen Hart	1:05
19	The Honky Tonk Man	17	Vader	19:55
20	Ahmed Johnson	11	Mark Henry & D-Lo Brown	3:18
21	Mark Henry	25	Faarooq	19:07
22	Skull	-	No showed as he was unable to compete	0:00
23	Kama Mustafa	19	Steve Austin	13:58
24	Steve Austin	-	'WINNER'	15:58
25	Henry Godwinn	22	himself	11:32
26	Savio Vega	20	Austin	9:29
27	Faarooq	27	Rock	12:05
28	Dude Love	26	Faarooq	7:53
29	Chainz	24	Austin	4:56
30	Vader	21	The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust	2:16

Triple H and Chyna were not entrants in the Royal Rumble Match.

Other on-screen talent

;Commentators ★ Jerry "The King" Lawler ★ Jim Ross;Spanish Commentators ★ Carlos Cabrera ★ Tito Santana;French Commentators ★ Jean Brassard ★ Raymond Rougeau;Interviewers ★ Michael Cole

;Referees ★ Mike Chioda ★ Jack Doan ★ Earl Hebner ★ Jim Korderas ★ Tim White;Other ★ Howard Finkel - ''ring announcer''

Notes

★ During the show, Steve Austin was seen as a marked man with The Godwinns, Nation of Domination and Los Boricuas all kayfabe trying to get him. Before the Royal Rumble match, it looked like Los Boricuas had attacked Austin with nobody entering at #22 but it turned out they attacked Skull (who was supposed to come out at that spot).

★ Mick Foley entered three times in the Royal Rumble Match. First as Cactus Jack (#1), second as Mankind (#16) and third as Dude Love (#28).

★ Jeff Jarrett was the only National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) representative in the match.

★ Owen Hart was kayfabe attacked by Jeff Jarrett and Jim Cornette before he could enter the ring. He did not return to the match until Jarrett officially entered the match later on.

★ Mike Tyson was in attendance at the show.

References

★ Pro Wrestling Illustrated presents: 2007 Wrestling almanac & book of facts

★ twnpnews.com - Royal Rumble

★ hoofco-inc.com - Royal Rumble '98 review

★ onlineonslaught.com - Royal Rumble '98 review

External links

★ Official 1998 Royal Rumble website