Royal Rumble (1994)

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Royal Rumble 1994

Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	January 22, 1994
Venue	Providence Civic Center
City	Providence, Rhode Island
Attendance	14,500
Pay-per-view chronology
Survivor Series 1993	Royal Rumble 1994	WrestleMania X

Royal Rumble 1994 was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 22, 1994 in the Providence Civic Center located in Providence, Rhode Island.

1 Results
2 Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations
3 Other on-screen talent
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Results

Dark match: The Brooklyn Brawler defeated Jim Powers
Tatanka defeated Bam Bam Bigelow (w/Luna Vachon) (8:12)
- Tatanka pinned Bigelow after a high cross body off the top rope.
The Quebecers (Jacques Rougeau and Pierre Ouellet) (w/Johnny Polo) defeated Bret Hart and Owen Hart to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship (16:48)
- Referee Tim White stopped the match after he considered Bret unable to continue due to a knee injury (kayfabe) he suffered during the match.
Razor Ramon defeated Irwin R. Schyster to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (11:30)
- Ramon pinned I.R.S after a Razor's Edge.
- During the match, referee Joey Marella was knocked out. Shawn Michaels came out and hit Ramon with his fake IC title. IRS pinned Ramon, however, referee Earl Hebner came down and told Marella about what just happened and the match was restarted.
Yokozuna (w/Mr. Fuji and Jim Cornette) defeated The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) in a Casket match to retain the WWF Championship (14:20)
- Yokozuna locked Undertaker in the casket with the help of Crush, The Great Kabuki, Tenryu, Bam Bam Bigelow, Adam Bomb, Jeff Jarrett, The Headshrinkers and Diesel.
- After the match, the wrestlers wheeled the casket to the back. However, green mist came out of the casket and Undertaker appeared on the video screen, saying that they would see his rebirth soon.
Bret Hart and Lex Luger co-won the 1994 Royal Rumble (55:08)
- The final two participants were Bret Hart and Lex Luger. The two were declared co-winners of the Royal Rumble by WWF President Jack Tunney when they both eliminated each other at the same time.

[edit] Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.

Entrant		Eliminated		Time
1	Scott Steiner	4	by Diesel	9:00
2	Samu	1	by Scott Steiner	3:13
3	Rick Steiner	2	by Owen Hart	3:57
4	Kwang	6	by Diesel	5:57
5	Owen Hart	5	by Diesel	4:10
6	Bart Gunn	3	by Diesel	2:30
7	Diesel	13	by Bigelow, Mabel, Plugg and Crush	17:41
8	Bob Backlund	7	by Diesel	0:41
9	Billy Gunn	8	by Diesel	0:14
10	Virgil	9	by Diesel	0:32
11	Randy Savage	11	by Crush	4:38
12	Jeff Jarrett	10	by Randy Savage	1:19
13	Crush	16	by Luger, Plugg and Bret Hart	25:03
14	Doink the Clown	12	by Bigelow	1:48
15	Bam Bam Bigelow	23	by Lex Luger	30:12
16	Mabel	14	by Valentine, Tatanka, Kabuki, Crush, Bigelow, Plugg and Michaels	9:57
17	Sparky Plugg	17	by Bret Hart and Michaels	21:33
18	Shawn Michaels	27	by Luger	29:17
19	Mo	21	by Fatu	22:46
20	Greg Valentine	18	by Martel	20:39
21	Tatanka	22	by Bigelow	20:07
22	Great Kabuki	15	by Luger	2:46
23	Lex Luger	-	CO-WINNER	21:58
24	Genichiro Tenryu	25	by Bret Hart and Luger	17:21
25	Bastion Booger	-	Unable to compete	0:00
26	Rick Martel	19	by Tatanka	11:22
27	Bret Hart	-	CO-WINNER	15:08
28	Fatu	26	by Bret Hart	13:04
29	Marty Jannetty	24	by Michaels	8:18
30	Adam Bomb	20	by Luger	4:55

[edit] Other on-screen talent

Promotional poster of Royal Rumble 1994

Commentators

Interviewers

Referees

Other

Howard Finkel - ring announcer

[edit] Trivia

This was the first Royal Rumble to have 90 second entrance intervals rather than the traditional 2 minute intervals. It was announced by commentator Vince McMahon that WWF President Jack Tunney reduced the interval times for timing constraints. The following year would go one step further and reduce the time intervals to only a minute each.
A similar situation to this Royal Rumbles ending happened at the 2005 event when the final two participants (Batista and John Cena) fell out of the ring at the same time. However, unlike the 1994 event they were not declared co-winners, instead the match was restarted with just the final two participants. It should also be noted that the ending of the 2005 match was botched, unlike the 1994 match which was booked to end this way.
Ludvig Borga was scheduled to be Tatanka's opponent (as well as compete in the Rumble match), but was unable to due to (legit) injury.