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TopicLopen watches and talks about all the Royal Rumbles. And ranks them. TURBO.
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01/26/17 9:38:00 PM
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Royal Rumble 1988

First time I'd actually watched this one. As you'd kinda expect from a Rumble that had Hacksaw Jim Duggan winning it, this was more of a midcard sideshow than anything. It only had 20 guys and very little starpower, and it seems more correct to rank it with mini Royal Rumbles on Raw, Smackdown, and Impact, than the actual PPV stuff. This practically felt more like a drawn out battle royal as very few eliminations took place with less than like 10 guys in the ring. I dunno if this actually did much for Duggan as his U! S! A! and yelling were pretty over here already-- kinda felt more like Hart Foundation got more out of it. Already know this isn't the worst Rumble because being short helps and what few stars were actually in it did last.

I probably won't always talk about undercards but the undercard was kinda more interesting. Jumping Bomb Angels vs Glamour Girls was pretty weird in a lot of ways. First of all you had joshi on WWF which was kinda neat, and like, seeing em do weird ass suplexes and stuff in the 80s was weird too-- especially considering how awful the Glamour Girls were-- hairmare city. Like anyone who thinks WWF/E women's wrestling was at its worst in the late 90s or early-mid 00s has seen these women. I mean this is Kelly Kelly tier wrestling, and while Kelly Kelly is not my cup of tea for looks, she's not offputting like these leathery burnouts were. Guess it's possible that their opponents made em look bad too.

Meanwhile Vince McMahon can't even be bothered to know the names of Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki, instead saying "we'll just call em 'Pink Angel' and 'Blue Angel'!" when Jesse Ventura asks for their names. This gets corrected in fall 2, but yeah. Good ol borderline racist WWF. But at least the women who could actually wrestle won! (why the hell are there women's tag belts in WWF)

Rumble Ranking (despite talking about the shows once in a while this is just the Rumbles)

1988

First and only time it'll be ranked #1? We'll see.
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