Royal Rumble Anthology

[Tastycles]

Getting it in the morning from the post office. Which one shall I watch first?

[Murfishes Can Use Calculus and Physics]

the one from 1966

[Harthan]

I'd go in order from the beginning.

Just a note, on the first Rumble, there's a tag team match afterwards - unless you're a profound fan of old school wrestling, I would skip it and get on to '89.

[TM]

and miss the 2 out of three? ridiculous.

[Harthan]

and miss the 2 out of three? ridiculous.

The match was just plain boring. Should have been done before the Rumble.

[TM]

no one knew how big the rumble would be

[Murfishes Can Use Calculus and Physics]

I was lying, the '49 one is a good one to start with.

[Harthan]

no one knew how big the rumble would be

Fair enough, but one could imagine that it would have been bigger than a two out of three falls tag title match that featured two teams who'd never even held a title nor would they ever do so.

[Tastycles]

no one knew how big the rumble would be

I think Duggan's victory would suggest that

[TM]

Ahhh, back then the first match was the most important anyways. Back in 1888.

[Harthan]

If you want to deprive yourself of 15 minutes you could be watching an extraordinary better six man tag team two out of three falls match from '89, then watching the Islanders vs Stallions.

If not, proceed to disc 2.

[Tastycles]

To be honest, my aim is to watch it all by the Royal Rumble. Chronologically seems the wave of the future, so that's what I'll do. I'm a student, so I can easily manage it all.

[Shadowmancer]

watch the one that has Hart Vs. Razor, I forget the year

[Showtime 24/7]

Honest answer, 07. Watching Khali Brain Chop 15 wrestlers and shouting out "Brain Chop" every time he does it is the most entertaining thing on there. Oh and after Micheals hits his flying forearm on Taker and they lie there for a good 30 seconds giving the fans plenty of time to know they'll both do their signature sit ups... fuck I've gotten myself excited about it, I'm going to go watch it now

[Pippen loves M_F]

Well i have always wanted to see RR01 because of the hardy's and kane dominating.

[Mighty NorCal]

the first rumble was laborious

[TheOneBigWill]

Why buy the COMPLETE Anthology, if you aren't going to start from beginning to end?

[TM]

watch it in this order.

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21.

Then return them to the store.

[TheOneBigWill]

If I'm honest. My top 5 favorite Rumbles were in this order.

1995
1996
1993
1994
1992

[The Mark of Zur-En-Arrh]

Well i have always wanted to see RR01 because of the hardy's and kane dominating.

I'm not sure if you meant that the you want to watch the Hardy's and Kane dominate, or if you wanted to see the Hardy's in that particular Rumble, as well as Kane dominating, but if it's the first, then i'm sorry to burst that bubble Scottie, but the Hardy's were numbers 1 and 3 and eliminated each other by the time entrant number 5 got to the ring, who was in fact Drew Carey.

However, 2001 has always been one of my favourite Rumbles for a number of reasons:

1) Kane comes in number 6 and is the last man eliminated after establishing the current RR record of 11 eliminations. At the time i was hoping and praying that he'd actually win it instead of Austin, because i've always marked out for the Big Red Machine, and this was when Glen was in his prime imo.

2) There was a nice period after RAven came in, where things started getting out of control. Al Snow ran down before his number came up to attack Raven, and then the two proceeded to have a Hardcore match in the iddle of the RR, which everyone else joined in on as they entered.

3) Tazz was eliminated in about 8 seconds, nearly as fast as the Warlord.

4) There were about 4 mystery entrants, most of which were awesome.

-Drew Carey was the first.

-Then the HonkeyTonk Man came out, and asked Kane to step aside so he could sing his entrance music, and then was unceremoniously smashed in the head with his guitar by Kane.

-Big Show made his return to the ring after a few months of injury with absolutely no hype, so everyone's jaw dropped when his music played, and the announcers played up the shock vale as much as possible as well, and i believe it was also not that long after The Rock had entered, so everyone was thinking we were going to get a repeat of '00's rumble confrontation between those two, he chokeslammed near enough everyone and then the Rock eliminated him seconds afterward.

-......... And then Haku came out, and everyone just thought 'obviously WCW don't want Meng anymore then' and that was it.

Overall, the PPV was great as well. I don't remember off the top of my head what the other matches were, but i do remember the WWE title match between HHH and Kurt Angle was great because it involved a great match accompanied by Steph and Trish having a massive cat fight half way through, and this is when Trish was Vince's slutty mistress and it was just great.

Otherwise, 2004 was a great RR imo if you can look past the fact that the winner killed himself and his family some 3 years later, and had a very similar bit to the Honky's appearance in '01, where about 2/3rds of the way through, Ernest 'The Cat' Miller and his midget butler asked the crowd to 'call their momma's' and did a ridiculous dance routine, and were then eliminated by Orton and Benoit (the first 2 competitors, and only other surviving contenders at the time). But the funniest part was, Benoit grabbed the midget by the hair to throw him out, but it was a cheap wig, so Benoit launced the wig out of the ring, but the midget went nowhere. C-l-a-s-s-i-c. Also, a nice little brawl between Orton and Foley towards the end as well, because they'd played up the fact that Foley wasn't in the crowd like he said he'd be.

LMS match between HHH and HBK was great, Hardcore Holly v Brock Lesnar was not, tag title table match between Evolution and Dudleys also not.

'07 is the Rumble where i marked the fuck out, but then i would because Taker won it.

And i never saw the '05 Rumble, but want to, just to see Vince run down to the ring, slide in, and then never make it to his feet again. :lmao:

[klunderbunker]

92 is great based just on the commentary alone.

On a totally random note that proves my geekiness, today is 20 years to the day since the 89 rumble.

[Uncle Sam]

Watch the 2007 one. Return it.