Royal Rumble 1995

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Royal Rumble 1995
Promotion	WWF
Date	January 22, 1995
Venue	The Sundome
City	Tampa, Florida, USA
Attendance	10,000
Last Event	Survivor Series
Next Event	WrestleMania XI

Contents 1 Show events 2 Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations 3 Trivia 4 DVD and video releases 5 External links and references

Show events

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Jeff Jarrett (w/The Roadie) defeated Razor Ramon to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship (18:03)
  • Jarrett pinned Ramon with a small package.
  • Originally, Jarrett won by countout, but Ramon agreed to restart the match.
• The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) defeated Irwin R. Schyster (w/Ted DiBiase) (12:20)
  • Undertaker pinned IRS after a chokeslam.
  • After the match, King Kong Bundy attacked Undertaker while IRS stole his urn, setting up Bundy and Taker's match at WrestleMania.
• WWF World Heavyweight Championship Match: Diesel fought Bret Hart to a draw (27:18)
  • The match was declared a draw after interference from Owen Hart and Bob Backlund, who attacked Bret, and Shawn Michaels, Jeff Jarrett, and The Roadie, who attacked Diesel.
• Bob Holly and The 1-2-3 Kid defeated Tatanka and Bam Bam Bigelow (w/Ted DiBiase) to win the vacant WWF Tag Team Championship
  • The Kid pinned Bigelow after Tatanka accidentally knocked him off of the top rope.
  • This was the finals in a tournament to declare the new tag team champions.
  • After the match, Bigelow knocked NFL star Lawrence Taylor, who was sitting at ringside laughing at him, to the ground, setting up their match at WrestleMania.
• Shawn Michaels won the 1995 Royal Rumble (38:41)
  • The last (and first) two competitors were Shawn Michaels and The British Bulldog. Bulldog threw Michaels over the top rope and thought he had won the match. However, referees noted that only one of Michaels' feet touched the floor making him still technically in the match. Michaels then re-entered the ring and eliminated the Bulldog (who was celebrating on the second rope, facing the crowd) to win the Royal Rumble.
  • Bret Hart attacked Owen Hart and Bob Backlund during their entrances, leading to their quick eliminations.

Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

A new participant came in aproximately every 1 minute

Entrant		Eliminated by		Time
1	Shawn Michaels	-	WINNER	38:41
2	The British Bulldog	29	Michaels	38:41
3	Eli Blu	9	Seone	10:00
4	Duke Droese	3	Michaels	8:13
5	Jimmy Del Ray	1	British Bulldog	1:25
6	Seone	10	Eli Blu	6:50
7	Tom Prichard	6	Michaels	5:30
8	Doink the Clown	7	Kwang	4:50
9	Kwang	8	Seone	4:01
10	Rick Martel	5	Seone	2:29
11	Owen Hart	2	British Bulldog	0:03
12	Timothy Well	4	British Bulldog	0:23
13	Luke Williams	11	Michaels	0:12
14	Jacob Blu	12	Michaels	0:17
15	King Kong Bundy	14	Mabel	3:00
16	Mo	13	Bundy	0:03
17	Mabel	16	Luger	1:58
18	Butch Miller	15	Michaels	0:19
19	Lex Luger	27	Michaels and Crush	18:51
20	Mantaur	18	Luger	9:33
21	Aldo Montoya	23	Michaels	13:21
22	Henry Godwinn	26	Luger	14:40
23	Billy Gunn	20	Crush and Murdoch	7:25
24	Bart Gunn	19	Crush and Murdoch	6:19
25	Bob Backlund	17	Luger	0:16
26	Steven Dunn	21	Montoya	4:29
27	Dick Murdoch	25	Himself	5:08
28	Adam Bomb	22	Crush	5:20
29	Fatu	24	Crush	5:32
30	Crush	28	British Bulldog	8:51

Trivia

• This is the only Royal Rumble to have one minute intervals.
• This was the first Royal Rumble in which the first participant in the match (Shawn Michaels) won the Royal Rumble, this didn't happen again until the 2004 event when Chris Benoit won from the #1 position. However, that Rumble had 90 second intervals, making the challenge much harder.

DVD and video releases

This PPV was released as part of The Royal Rumble Anthology DVD Set.

External links and references

• Royal Rumble 1995 (Official Website)

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