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Welcome to the Royal Rumble
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The Royal Rumble, the most
unique and often considered the
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most fun event in all of Sports
Entertainment.
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The only time of the year that
you can see 30 of the top stars.
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30 big-time wrestlers, yeah,
with reputations to match.
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I don't understand the Royal
Rumble.
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Beginning with two
competitors, and eventually 30,
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the Rumble is pure adrenaline
and excitement as all
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competitors vie to toss their
opponents over the top rope
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and remain the last
person standing.
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No.
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I can't believe it.
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The single goal in the Royal
Rumble is to prove what is the
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strongest force in the WWE.
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This is WWE's greatest
moments.
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Acknowledge me.
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My God.
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Stone Cold with the beer bath.
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This is surreal.
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Look at this.
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He slammed him.
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Welcome, everyone, to WWE's
greatest moments.
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A celebration of those core
memories from
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Sports Entertainment's
vast incredible history.
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I'm Michael Cole, and on this
edition, we shout out the
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defining moments from the early
era of Royal Rumble matches.
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Beginning in 1988, the Royal
Rumble concept
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was fresh and exciting.
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With 30 superstars potentially
occupying the ring at the same
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time, the possibilities were
endless.
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And when the first Rumble
broadcast went live,
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fans and traditionalists
alike were blown away
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by the format and
the presentation.
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January 24th, the night of the
big happening, the Royal Rumble.
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20 men are gonna
be involved
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in this first-ever
spectacular.
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Well, this ought to be
Duggan's style of a match.
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I didn't think it was going to
work.
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Who knows what we're gonna
wind up with.
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The last man's coming in.
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Oh, the Junkyard Dog.
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And halfway through it, I
went, "Okay, I get it.
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I'm-I'm the knuckle head.
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Here comes The Gang right at
him.
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Oh, my.
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The final two men in that
first Royal Rumble,
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"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan and
the One-man Gang.
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How does he get The Gang over
the top?
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He just did a little spot
where I come charging
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at him for a clothesline.
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I pulled the top rope down and
Big One Man Gang
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went over the top-
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Oh, yes.
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That's it.
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He pulled the top rope down.
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-and I won.
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My expression says it all.
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The winner of the Royal
Rumble, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan.
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And to have that type of
accolade that Duggan wins the
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first one, I mean, that puts him
on the map.
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I can't believe it,
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out of all the people to
win this thing, it's him.
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And from that moment on,
the Royal Rumble
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would become a staple in WWE.
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One of the most intriguing
aspects of the Royal Rumble is
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that you get to see matchups you
never thought were possible.
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Take for instance, in 1990, the
two biggest stars in all of WWE
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were "The Immortal" Hulk Hogan
and the Ultimate Warrior,
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and every fan was
concocting their own dream
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match between the two until the
Royal Rumble made it a reality.
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And Honky Tonk,
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Hogan eliminating
The Honky Tonk Man.
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Shawn Michaels eliminated by the
Warrior,
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and Rick Martel eliminated
by the Warrior.
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And look at this.
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Look at this.
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My-my God.
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Hulk Hogan and The Warrior.
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You have these two really
popular stars, and when they
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finally sort of looked at each
other and it crossed your mind,
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"Oh, my God, are these guys
going to square off?
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There is not a person sitting
down.
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It-- Your-your-your head
exploded.
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Listen.
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Whoa, what a matchup this is
gonna be.
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You didn't get two heroes at
the top of their game
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going toe to toe ever.
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And so it was such a unique
experience and it forced
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you to pick sides.
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As soon as we bumped each
other and we turned and we
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stared down for a minute,
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okay, we could draw some money
with this one.
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He missed the clothesline.
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Whoa.
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And they clotheslined each
other.
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The idea that these two would
be clashing, everybody watching
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just get sucked in by all the
drama unfolding.
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Hogan eliminates The Warrior.
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There you see it.
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That moment is the beginning
of the rivalry between
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Hulk Hogan and The
Ultimate Warrior.
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Number eight on our countdown
fittingly features The Eighth
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Wonder of the World, WWE Hall of
Famer Andre the Giant, who
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struck fear into his opponents
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with his massive
size and strength.
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He was unafraid and undaunted by
absolutely nothing,
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except perhaps our gargantuan
slithering reptile named Damien.
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I will be the last one.
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I never lost a match so far, and
I'm coming again to win.
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We're gonna see
just how--
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Whoa, look out.
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There goes Smash.
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Whoa.
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Hip block and Darvin is gone.
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And there goes Jake.
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He's out of there.
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No one's gonna eliminate Andre
the Giant.
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Well, Andre the Giant over the
years has won, what, more battle
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royals than anyone in the
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history of professional
wrestling?
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But Andre was terrified of
snakes.
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What's this?
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Jake "The Snake" back.
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He can't come back.
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He's got Damien with him.
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Look at Andre.
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Andre has just eliminated
himself.
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Eliminated himself by jumping
over the top rope.
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It looked really cool.
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Wow, that is grossly unfair,
Gorilla Monsoon.
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Jake "The Snake" Roberts was
eliminated.
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He had no right to appear back
at ringside.
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Andre just eliminated himself.
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No, Damien did it.
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Now to our seventh entry of
greatest Royal Rumble moments of
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the 80's and 90's featuring the
then head of the table,
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Yokozuna, in his conquest to win
his very first Rumble.
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Boy, they want
him bad, don't they?
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Here's another one.
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Uh-oh.
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Uh-oh.
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Yokozuna, 500 pounds plus.
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I bet he's more than that now.
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Unprecedented in the Royal
Rumble.
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The winner going to Caesar's
Palace at WrestleMania 9 to
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face the reigning WWE Champion.
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The stipulation of winning the
Rumble and competing for the WWE
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Championship at WrestleMania
made the Royal Rumble
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itself even more valuable.
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Nobody has even knocked this
guy off his feet yet.
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He could always move, he could
always put on a show.
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And even as he got bigger, how
agile he was.
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And that shows you how talented
he was, especially at that size.
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I gotta stand for this one.
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I gotta stand to see the end of
this.
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Oh, Backlund is gone.
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We're down to two.
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One of them will become the
challenger at WrestleMania 9.
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Your final two are Yokozuna
and "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
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Savage with the elbow.
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Pinfalls don't count.
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Oh, there he goes.
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He threw him out to the floor.
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On his way to WrestleMania 9.
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From that point forward,
it just added so much more
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importance to the Rumble.
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The balls are in my court,
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and I just might rip 'em off
and step on 'em.
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"The Ninth Wonder of the
World" Chyna, possessing an
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imposing frame and impressive
strength like
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no woman before her.
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Chyna had begun to compete
against men in the ring and
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would make history as the first
woman to compete in the men's
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Royal Rumble match.
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Number 30 on the way.
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The Ninth Wonder of the World
making WWE history.
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It was so cool.
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It was so special.
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Not just being a woman, but just
seeing something different.
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She was so empowering and
inspiring
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for a whole generation of women.
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Look at this.
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And Mark Henry now.
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Chyna taking it to Mark Henry.
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Being the first woman to enter
the Royal Rumble,
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everyone wanted to see her
overcome all the odds.
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And there goes Mark Henry.
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How did she do that?
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Eliminating Mark Henry "The
World's Strongest Man"
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is no easy task.
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So that speaks to not only what
she was able to accomplish in
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that Royal Rumble, but the
moment she was able to create.
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We're still talking about it
now,
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so it obviously has made
a huge impact.
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She's not afraid of anybody.
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Although Chyna didn't win the
Rumble,
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the history that she made
that night was undeniable.
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Now, on to our fifth selection
of greatest Royal Rumble moments
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of the 80's and 90's.
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In 1996, when Steve Austin
adopted the Stone Cold moniker-
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Austin 3:16 says I just
whipped your ass.
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-it was more than just a name
change.
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It was a transformation in
attitude,
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and it revitalized
Austin's career.
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And heading into the 1997 Royal
Rumble, no one superstar had
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more momentum than the brash
Texas Rattlesnake.
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Very soon,
someone else
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will be joining
the fray.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
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Uh-oh.
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I've been fortunate
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to win three Royal
Rumbles,
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but in 1997, that would
be my favorite.
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He is in great shape.
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Yeah.
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He's in fighting shape.
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And once again, "Stone Cold"
Steve Austin is picking them
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off one at a time.
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1997 has probably the most
"gifable" moment
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in Royal Rumble history.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin
sitting on the rope and checking
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his watch because he's alone in
the ring 'cause he already
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eliminated everybody.
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He's basically awaiting for
the next individual to come out.
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Bret "The Hitman" Hart and
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
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Let's see what Steve Austin's
gonna do with Bret Hart now.
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Boy, this is hellfire and
brimstone when these
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two get together.
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We went in there like two
lions.
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Bret Hart eliminates me, and
the referees didn't see "Stone
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Cold" Steve Austin go down on
the floor, so I rolled back in.
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Austin has been eliminated.
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Wait a minute.
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No, no.
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin is
the last man standing in the
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ring as The Hitman hits the
ground and I'm the winner.
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Bret cannot believe it.
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I think a lot of people think
the '97 Rumble is controversial,
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but I disagree.
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I think "Stone Cold" Steve
Austin is a smart man.
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The crowd boos, "Oh, well, I'm
going to WrestleMania."
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Stone Cold with a
controversial win.
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The first of what would be a
record three Rumble
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victories in his career.
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On the short end of the stick
was Bret "The Hitman" Hart,
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who once again found himself in
a hotly contested finish at the
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1994 Royal Rumble.
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To say we're a
little overconfident
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would be an
understatement.
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The Royal Rumble, the best
against the best, only one man
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comes out the winner, and it's
gonna be me.
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Heading into the 1994 Royal
Rumble, there were two odds-on
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favorites, Lex Luger and Bret
"The Hitman" Hart.
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And over the top.
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There goes- Michaels is out of
there.
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Wait a minute-
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What a--
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-it's Bret Hart.
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It's Lex Luger.
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And Luger has Bret up and down.
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No.
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Lex Luger.
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Oh, look at this.
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We had to both land at the
exact same time on the ground,
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and it had to be a dispute,
you know, and it's sort of like
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a miracle that we
pulled that off.
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Two referees came down.
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One raised the hand of Bret
Hart.
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The other raised the hand of Lex
Luger.
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I don't think they can make up
their minds.
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And ultimately, it was
declared a tie.
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The winners are Lex Luger and
Bret "Hitman" Hart.
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Both men have won, and this,
with no doubt,
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will go down in World Wrestling
Entertainment history.
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I remember doing the old pause
on the VHS,
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then hitting the pause
button again,
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so you could take
it frame by frame,
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and watching them fall to
the floor at the other side and
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arguing with my buddy
that you can see clearly
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that Lex has went faster because
he weighs more.
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I still get asked about the
Royal Rumble,
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with Bret and I both co-winners.
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I thought it was a good
storyline.
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I've never seen this before.
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And I've seen him a few times
over the years where it's like
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we've laughed about it.
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This next moment is one that
truly defined the show-stealing
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nature of "The Heartbreak Kid"
Shawn Michaels.
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This is the year of The
Heartbreak Kid.
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Pulling the dreaded number one
spot in the Rumble, Michaels
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would have to run the gamut and
outlast 29 hungry superstars
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if he were to have a shot at
winning the match.
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It's the luck
of the draw,
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and Shawn
Michaels
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very unlucky
here tonight.
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Has anybody ever gone in
number one and won it?
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No.
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And your likelihood of going
all the way is not great.
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Michaels trying to hang on.
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Look at Michaels hanging on.
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He's like an octopus, wrapping
himself around the ropes.
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People wanted him thrown out
immediately when he came in,
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and then when they saw
him fighting and hanging
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on for dear life, this strange
thing happened where people
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began to root for him.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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Michaels is still in there.
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Michaels has been eliminated.
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Shawn, out of sheer
athleticism, only has one foot
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touched the floor,
and as everyone knows,
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two feet hasn't
touched the floor.
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Wait a minute.
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Wait just a minute.
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They're saying that Shawn
Michaels
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has won the Royal Rumble.
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Only one of Shawn Michaels'
feet hit the floor.
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The winner, Shawn Michaels.
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So far, we've seen it all, but
our number two moment features
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three iconic performances in one
night.
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That's right, not one, not two,
but all three faces of Foley.
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Let's find out
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who drew
number one.
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Cactus Jack.
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00:16:06,199 --> 00:16:08,268
Mick Foley had three different
personas.
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So, if one of them didn't work
out-
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Look out, there
goes Cactus Jack.
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He's out.
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-he had two more on deck.
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00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:20,313
Hey.
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00:16:20,413 --> 00:16:21,114
Wait a minute.
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Wait a minute.
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00:16:22,048 --> 00:16:22,882
Yes.
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00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:23,717
Oh my gosh.
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00:16:23,817 --> 00:16:24,718
This ain't right.
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00:16:26,119 --> 00:16:30,290
Mankind has been eliminated
by Goldust.
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Every time he got eliminated,
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00:16:31,858 --> 00:16:33,126
he came back as the
next character.
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00:16:33,226 --> 00:16:34,394
Yeah, you're out, Mankind.
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00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:35,362
Beat it.
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00:16:35,462 --> 00:16:37,630
The WWE Universe ate that up.
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00:16:40,467 --> 00:16:43,069
Mrs. Foley's baby boy is
pulling a triple header.
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00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:46,272
When Dude Love showed up,
it becomes the biggest response
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00:16:46,373 --> 00:16:48,408
I've ever received.
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00:16:48,508 --> 00:16:50,143
Oh, Dude Love just eliminated
Bradshaw.
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00:16:51,978 --> 00:16:53,913
I hate Dude Love.
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00:16:54,014 --> 00:16:58,551
Oh, Dude's got the Mandible
Claw, shades of Mankind.
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00:16:58,652 --> 00:17:01,855
Oh, low blow, Austin.
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00:17:01,955 --> 00:17:03,123
There goes Dude.
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00:17:03,223 --> 00:17:05,058
This will never happen again
because I don't believe any
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00:17:05,158 --> 00:17:09,629
other superstar had three
different memorable characters
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00:17:09,729 --> 00:17:12,098
like Mick Foley had.
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00:17:13,299 --> 00:17:16,069
0 for 3, Mick, but hey, thanks
for coming.
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00:17:18,004 --> 00:17:20,940
Without further ado, our final
moment on our countdown of
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00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:24,411
greatest Royal Rumble moments of
the '80's and '90's.
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We now go back to 1992, when
"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair
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00:17:27,414 --> 00:17:29,549
entered the Rumble at the number
three spot,
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00:17:29,649 --> 00:17:31,885
but this was no ordinary Rumble.
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00:17:34,454 --> 00:17:35,722
Unprecedented,
first time
360
00:17:35,822 --> 00:17:36,890
in the history
of the
361
00:17:36,990 --> 00:17:38,792
World Wrestling
Entertainment
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00:17:38,892 --> 00:17:41,161
that whoever emerges
victorious in
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the Royal Rumble will be crowned
the Undisputed World Wrestling
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00:17:45,065 --> 00:17:46,766
Entertainment Champion.
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00:17:46,866 --> 00:17:49,269
If you have the World
Heavyweight Championship on the
366
00:17:49,369 --> 00:17:54,774
line, the stakes do not get any
bigger than that.
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00:17:56,109 --> 00:17:58,411
Put your money on Ric Flair.
368
00:17:59,145 --> 00:18:00,513
He's going to do it all.
369
00:18:00,613 --> 00:18:01,681
I've got that--
370
00:18:01,781 --> 00:18:03,583
Suppose he gets numbers one
through five.
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00:18:03,683 --> 00:18:04,718
What does he do now?
372
00:18:04,818 --> 00:18:05,919
That's not fair.
373
00:18:06,019 --> 00:18:07,120
That's not fair for Flair.
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00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:09,289
Who's number three now?
375
00:18:09,389 --> 00:18:10,557
There goes the buzzer.
376
00:18:10,657 --> 00:18:11,691
No.
377
00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:12,959
Oh, yes.
378
00:18:13,059 --> 00:18:13,927
Damn it.
379
00:18:14,027 --> 00:18:15,462
It's Ric Flair.
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00:18:17,097 --> 00:18:19,566
Ric Flair comes out at number
three.
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00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:23,603
Number three, outside of numbers
one and two, not the best spot.
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00:18:23,703 --> 00:18:26,139
There's no way he's lasting
towards the end.
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00:18:26,239 --> 00:18:29,876
Never before in the history of
the Royal Rumble has anyone who
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00:18:29,976 --> 00:18:34,714
has drawn numbers one through
five been there at the end.
385
00:18:34,814 --> 00:18:36,349
Oh, shut up.
386
00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:39,119
No one wanted Ric Flair to win
the Royal Rumble
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00:18:39,219 --> 00:18:42,589
more than Bobby Heenan.
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00:18:42,689 --> 00:18:43,757
How long has he been in now?
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00:18:43,857 --> 00:18:45,892
In excess of 55 minutes.
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00:18:45,992 --> 00:18:46,926
Give him the title.
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00:18:47,027 --> 00:18:48,061
That's good enough for me.
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00:18:48,161 --> 00:18:49,963
God, no, I'm not giving him
the title.
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00:18:50,063 --> 00:18:52,165
I'm telling you, Mansoon, if
he wins this,
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00:18:52,265 --> 00:18:54,634
I'll never say or do
anything bad again.
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00:18:54,734 --> 00:18:58,471
The final two are Ric Flair
and Sid Justice.
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00:18:58,571 --> 00:18:59,706
And look at this.
397
00:18:59,806 --> 00:19:03,376
Hulkster holding on, trying to
pull him out.
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00:19:04,210 --> 00:19:05,278
Oh, yes.
399
00:19:05,378 --> 00:19:08,648
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
400
00:19:08,748 --> 00:19:09,382
Flair did it.
401
00:19:09,482 --> 00:19:11,918
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
402
00:19:12,018 --> 00:19:12,986
He did it, I told you, Monsoon.
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00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,855
He does what Ric Flair always
does.
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00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:17,223
Makes history.
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00:19:17,324 --> 00:19:21,528
I remember being furious as a
kid seeing that go down.
406
00:19:21,628 --> 00:19:22,862
That was a big deal.
407
00:19:22,962 --> 00:19:25,532
The Mecca at that point in time
of my career.
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00:19:25,965 --> 00:19:27,067
Yes, yes.
409
00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:27,767
I told you.
410
00:19:27,867 --> 00:19:28,868
Flair did it.
411
00:19:28,968 --> 00:19:30,203
I don't believe it.
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00:19:30,303 --> 00:19:31,271
He did it.
413
00:19:31,371 --> 00:19:34,140
It was a really fun ride for
fans to take.
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00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,310
That Rumble is often revered as
the greatest Royal Rumble
415
00:19:37,410 --> 00:19:41,147
because of what Ric Flair was
able to do.
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00:19:41,247 --> 00:19:42,549
That was a great moment.
417
00:19:42,649 --> 00:19:49,656
With a tear in my eye, this is
the greatest moment in my life.
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00:19:51,491 --> 00:19:53,960
Lasting over one hour in the
match, Flair lived up to his
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00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:57,797
60-minute man moniker and
delivered a moment that will
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00:19:57,897 --> 00:20:00,033
forever be one of the 16-time
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00:20:00,133 --> 00:20:01,634
world champs'
ultimate highlights.
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00:20:03,002 --> 00:20:05,038
Well, that'll do it for this
edition
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00:20:05,138 --> 00:20:06,473
of WWE's Greatest Moments.
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00:20:06,573 --> 00:20:09,876
We hope you enjoyed this look
back at the best Royal Rumble
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00:20:09,976 --> 00:20:12,345
moments of the 80's and 90's.
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00:20:12,445 --> 00:20:13,913
I'm Michael Cole.
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00:20:14,013 --> 00:20:15,715
We'll see you next time.
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