How will the latest Royal Rumbles be remembered?

[Stu]

Every Royal Rumble is known for one thing or another in particular, and that helps when discussing particular matches. Unless, of course, you're good with dates. With two more matches in the books, how do you think they'll be remembered years from now?

To better explain, here's how I believe all the other Rumbles are remembered.

1988: The first one
1989: The one on PPV for the first time, Demolition collides
1990: The one Hogan won
1991: The one with patriotism! Yah!
1992: The one with Ric Flair and Heenan's commentary
1993: The one the winner started going to Wrestlemania
1994: The one Bret Hart and Lex Luger both won
1995: The one with one-minute intervals and Shawn Michaels' foot
1996: The one it's Vader time
1997: The one Stone Cold dominates
1998: The one Mick Foley showed up three times
1999: The one booked by Vince Russo
2000: The one The Rock won, but actually Big Show
2001: The one Kane dominated and things got hardcore
2002: The one Maven eliminated The Undertaker
2003: The one after the brand split
2004: The one we're not supposed to remember
2005: The one with a botched ending and Vince's quads
2006: The one Rey did it for Eddie
2007: The one with Shawn and Undertaker at the end
2008: The one John Cena came back
2009: The one Santino set a record
2010: The one Edge came back and CM Punk talked a lot
2011: The one with 40 guys
2012: The one with three announcers in the match
2013: The one with ?? (seriously, what's memorable?)
2014: The one without Daniel Bryan
2015: The one Reigns and local men pissed off everyone
2016: The one AJ styles showed up
2017: The one with golf carts
2018: The one that Nakamura won
2018: The first one for women
2019: The one Nia Jax got an RKO
2019: The one Becky Lynch won
2020: The one Brock destroyed everyone
2020: The one Otis saved Mandy

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

I literally already forgot almost everything that happened in it.

[Spider2024]

By Pepperidge Farm.

[Pushed to the Moon]

Edge going all the way from 1.

Billie and Jillie 4 eva <3

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Cole referring to Christian as Edge's "former buddy."

[eJm]

2018, personally, was the one where I remembered this company is capable of doing really fun Rumbles where they wanted to. Just...I know I go on about it but that match was just a blast to watch.

And we even had our footage cut off before Nakamura won and it STILL didn’t dampen it. That’s a real testament.

[Push R Truth]

He-Man Carlito

[Spider2024]

Yeah, the 2021 Men's run will mostly be remembered for Edge (and Christian).

Some other memorable stuff:

1989 - The Mega Powers explosion, DiBiase trying to pay Studd to go.
1990 - The Hogan/Warrior faceoff.
1993 - Giant Gonzales intruding.
2000 - Kaientai intruding.
2001 - Drew Carey.
2011 - Santino.
2012 - Kharma.
2013 - I guess this can be remembered for the one where everyone else had to fall by the wayside for the sake of Rock/Cena II.

[Tenshigure]

I mean, it's pretty safe to say the default go-to will be "the one with no fans in attendance during the global pandemic," but for smaller memories I'd say:

- Women's: First black women (second overall black person) to win the Rumble

- Men's: The returns of Christian and Carlito

[ChitownKnight]

Feb 2, 2021 21:46:17 GMT -5 Tenshigure said:

I mean, it's pretty safe to say the default go-to will be "the one with no fans in attendance during the global pandemic," but for smaller memories I'd say:

- Women's: First black women (second overall black person) to win the Rumble

- Men's: The returns of Christian and Carlito

Honestly i feel like the Thunderdome or the fact that the show slapped made me forget the audience part

[adamclark52]

The one that happened in 2021

[jivesoulbrah]

The Pandemic rumbles

[fw91]

2012- The one with the whole announce team

[The Creepo Man]

The one where we all watched Liv Morgan.

My recording stopped when Daniel Bryan’s entrance music played so I can’t comment on the guy’s match.