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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. The tag line for this event was "Pain! Just a 4 Letter Word."
[edit] Results
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Vader defeated The Artist Formerly Known As Goldust (w/Luna Vachon) (7:47)
- 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)
- Max pinned Torito with a Cradle.
- The Rock defeated Ken Shamrock by disqualification to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (10:53)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)
- Michaels won when Kane chokeslammed Undertaker into the casket and closed it.
- 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.
- During the match, The New Age Outlaws and Los Boricuas interfered and attacked The Undertaker.
- 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. After the fire was extinguished and the casket was opened, The Undertaker had disappeared.
[edit] Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations
A new entrant came out approximately every 90 seconds.
^ Triple H and Chyna were not entrants in the Royal Rumble Match.
[edit] Other on-screen talent
- Commentators
- Spanish Commentators
- French Commentators
- Interviewers
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- Referees
- Other
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- 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.
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