Royal Rumble (1993)

Royal Rumble 1993 was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 24, 1993 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.

[edit] Results

Dark match: Doink the Clown defeated Jim Powers (5:57)
- Doink forced Powers to submit.
The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated The Beverly Brothers (Blake and Beau) (10:34)
- Scott pinned Blake after a Frankensteiner.
Shawn Michaels defeated Marty Jannetty to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (14:20)
- Michaels pinned Jannetty after a Sweet Chin Music.
- Before the match, Sensational Sherri came out in a neutral role. She later later tried to hit Michaels with her shoe but ends up hitting Jannetty with it by accident.
Bam Bam Bigelow defeated The Big Boss Man (10:10)
- Bigelow pinned Boss Man after a diving headbutt.
Bret Hart defeated Razor Ramon to retain the WWF Championship (17:52)
- Hart forced Ramon to submit with the Sharpshooter.
Yokozuna won the 1993 Royal Rumble (1:06:35)
- The final two participants were Yokozuna and Randy Savage. Savage hit the Savage Elbow and went for a pinfall, despite pinfalls not counting in this match. Yokozuna's kicking out catapulted Savage over the top rope.
- The Royal Rumble match would feature the debut of Giant Gonzales, not as an official entrant, but to attack The Undertaker, causing him to eliminated from the Rumble. This would eventually set up their match at Wrestlemania IX.
- Before the Royal Rumble, "Julius Caesar" and "Cleopatra" came out to promote WrestleMania IX, which had an ancient Rome theme.

A new entrant came out approximately every 2 minutes.

↑ Giant Gonzales was not an entrant in the Rumble.

Promotional poster of Royal Rumble 1993

Before the Royal Rumble match, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan introduced "The Narcissist" Lex Luger.
This was the first Royal Rumble to feature the stipulation where the winner got a WWF Championship shot at WrestleMania.
Bob Backlund broke the record for longest lasting in a Royal Rumble, lasting 1:01:10. The record was previously held by Ric Flair who set the record the previous year.