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Royal Rumble (1993) was the sixth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on January 24, 1993 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California.
[edit] Results
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- 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)
- Shawn Michaels defeated Marty Jannetty to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (14:20)
- Michaels pinned Jannetty after the superkick.
- Before the match, Sensational Sherri came out in a neutral role. She later tried to hit Michaels with her shoe but ended up hitting Jannetty with it by accident.
- Bam Bam Bigelow defeated The Big Boss Man (10:10)
- Bret Hart defeated Razor Ramon to retain the WWF Championship (17:52)
- Yokozuna won the 1993 Royal Rumble (1:06:35)
- The final two participants were Yokozuna and Randy Savage. Savage hit the Savage Elbow and instinctively went for a pinfall, despite pinfalls not counting in this match. Yokozuna "kicked out" of the pinfall, and in the process, catapulted Savage over the top rope, winning the Royal Rumble.
- The Royal Rumble match would feature the debut of Giant Gonzalez, not as an official entrant, but to attack The Undertaker, eliminating him 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.
[edit] Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations
A new entrant came out approximately every 2 minutes.
^ Giant Gonzalez was not an entrant in the Rumble.
[edit] Other on-screen talent
- Commentators
- Referees
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- Interviewers
- Other
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- This was the first Royal Rumble match to feature the stipulation of the winner receiving a WWF Championship shot at WrestleMania.
- Bob Backlund (who was slammed on the concrete floor by The Berzerker and remained there for a short period) broke the record for longest lasting in a Royal Rumble, lasting 1:01:10. The record was previously held by Ric Flair who had set the record in 1992.
- Before the Royal Rumble match, Bobby Heenan introduced Lex Luger.
- Tito Santana competed in the Rumble for a sixth consecutive year, making him the only wrestler to appear in all 6 Rumbles to that point.
- According to Bret Hart during an interview with the Below the Belt show, the WWF was actually preparing to have a Hart/Warrior match at Royal Rumble 1993. Warrior was replaced by Razor Ramon after he left.
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