Who did you think would win Rumble 92?

[tafkaga]

I don't think I really predicted things like this when I was 13. I was just caught up in the excitement of a Royal Rumble with so many top drawer wrestlers. I'm sure that I was voting for Macho, Undertaker, or Sid, but usually anything WWF came with this gnawing sense of dread that it would be Hogan.

[Deleted]

I was 7, so I thought it was a given that Hogan would win. He was the main character of the WWF, so he had to. My grandpa told me Flair would win, and I had no idea why he thought the ancient, white-haired guy was going to win. A couple of hours later I was wondering if he could somehow tell the future.

[Mozenrath]

I would have been like 4. Had I been watching wrestling consistently yet, I assume I'd have probably been for Hogan or Sid.

[salz4life]

13 year old me was a dope and really thought The Warlord would win. When he came out at 30, I thought I had called it. #Facepalm.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Jan 24, 2022 22:56:02 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Jan 24, 2022 22:45:29 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

I weirdly have zero memory of having any sort of prediction about this.

Hogan had won the previous two Rumbles, so I probably was not thinking it would be him again. Also, it would have made all the shenanigans at Survivor Series and This Tuesday in Texas meaningless if Hogan or Taker had ended up with the belt again.

I never thought they'd give Piper the IC, much less the world title. Sid seemed too new. Savage seemed too stale. Flair was credible but also not really a battle royal type. It seemed unlikely they'd let him go over the big WWF stars.

I'm just gonna lie and say I thought it would be Skinner.

This Rumble was pretty jobberific. While being one of the best Rumbles ever, it's by far the most overrated and Heenan is the star of it. It's not great when your heel commentator is the best part of a match and I say that as a guy who loves his commentary, especially in this match.

I wouldn't say it was jobberific at all especially compared to a lot of other Rumbles. It was a very star studded match where almost everyone in it had at least some kind of cred.

Who in the match was a jobber? Hogan, Savage, Piper, Sid, Undertaker, Flair, and Jake were all top guys. Then you had guys like Duggan, Slaughter, Bulldog, Boss Man, and Dibiase who were all big names and always pushed.

Michaels was about to get a big push. IRS was still fairly new and getting pushed. Martel had the Rumble endurance record after lasting nearly an hour the previous year. Valentine was low on the card at that point but had also done very well the previous year and had the past accomplishments. Warlord and Berzerker never got the big push but were far from jobber status in that they were both big guys who were presented as being dangerous. Santana like Valentine had past accomplishments and was also getting pushed again as they had recently repackaged him as El Matador. Repo Man was another new character getting pushed and wouldn't fall to jobber status until later in the year.

Tornado had fallen down the card a bit but was still protected to an extent and his IC title reign hadn't been that long ago. Virgil was starting to get depushed but still had some momentum from the Dibiase feud which had only just ended. Sags was a tag guy who had no hope in winning but the Nasties were still protected and had recently been tag team champions.

Only guys who didn't have much going for them at that point were Haku, Barbarian, Volkoff, Mustafa, Hercules, Skinner, and Snuka. However even then Snuka, Mustafa, and Volkoff while all way past their prime were all at least big names from the Rock and Wrestling Era; while Haku, Barbarian, and Hercules while all on JTTS level at that point were all big tough guys who were put over as being big bad asses by Gorilla and Heenan. Skinner was already jobbing a decent bit but was at least a new character so he hadn't been jobbing that long at that point. Like yeah there's guys who had no chance but there's going to that every year. It's definitely a far cry from say 1995 where it's pretty much all stupid gimmicks and never will be's.

[bob]

I remember thinking Piper was walking out with double gold

[eudypfohl]

Jan 25, 2022 19:43:26 GMT -5 bob said:

I remember thinking Piper was walking out with double gold

I recall as the PPV went on I began to think ...it's gonna happen...Piper is going to win both! Was a big Piper fan and allowed myself to get carried away a bit

Frankly I didn't even think he'd beat Mountie. Not really knowing what was going on behind the scenes I thought if Mountie just won the title then he'd keep it for a little bit. He was a very effective heel and over. Bret had some "fever"...now they're throwing Piper in who has not been a full time wrestler in years, and never cared for or needed belts, figure Mountie retains in some underhanded way but Piper humiliates him after the match and that ends it. Was pleasantly surprised Piper won and went ballistic

Match was absolute shit too. Not that they had any time to prepare. It was short, sloppy, and disjointed. The fans gave such a delayed reaction to the sleeper and the 3 arm drops not expecting it would end right then and there

[ianriccaboni]

Before it started? Hogan

After the IC Title Match? Piper

Once Sid was left at the end? Sid

[SmashTV]

Due to the WWF booking at the time, I feared/expected it would be Hogan or Sid. However, the longer Flair - who I wanted to win - lasted, the more I began to think he could do it.

[Duke Cameron]

Sid Justice

[lildude8218]

Nikolai Volkoff.

Why else would he come back after 15 months away if not for a run on top?

[clodhopper]

I don't remember who I thougth would win but do remember being furious when Sid got cheated right at the end.

[ianriccaboni]

Jan 29, 2022 1:29:58 GMT -5 clodhopper said:

I don't remember who I thougth would win but do remember being furious when Sid got cheated right at the end.

Yeah they really underestimated how big Sid was getting and how that finish would play out.

[Blade]

I figured it was going to be Flair, because I'd read a few wrestling magazines and knew he was a big deal before he came to WWF, and the Royal Rumble was a way to show off what he was supposed to be good at - long matches - while also letting him get the title without actually beating a "homegrown" star (I had noticed they'd dredged up Jim Neidhart, unseen since the Hart Foundation broke up, to be a token name for the just-debuted Flair to defeat).

[schma]

Funny enough I actually just watched the entirety of this a couple weeks ago. They were definitely trying to swerve the audience. Gorilla would not shut up about how no one had ever won with Ric Flair's number and how he had zero chance. That seemed really odd to me since the rumble was only a few years old at that point. However, in retrospect that was likely them trying to build up Ric so when he did win it was huge. The crazy thing is it was very much a face arc, person runs the entire length of the Royal Rumble and many times mixes it up with people he should really avoid messing with.

That said, it's kinda nuts to think that Hogan screwing over Sid Justice led to a heel turn for Sid.

Sid would have been a good call for who was going to win if I didn't already know. Hogan too.

[TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out]

Jan 30, 2022 0:03:37 GMT -5 schma said:

Funny enough I actually just watched the entirety of this a couple weeks ago. They were definitely trying to swerve the audience. Gorilla would not shut up about how no one had ever won with Ric Flair's number and how he had zero chance. That seemed really odd to me since the rumble was only a few years old at that point. However, in retrospect that was likely them trying to build up Ric so when he did win it was huge. The crazy thing is it was very much a face arc, person runs the entire length of the Royal Rumble and many times mixes it up with people he should really avoid messing with.

That said, it's kinda nuts to think that Hogan screwing over Sid Justice led to a heel turn for Sid.

Sid would have been a good call for who was going to win if I didn't already know. Hogan too.

It wasn't supposed to be a heel turn for Sid, Hogan just did a Hogan and refused to let himself go into shades of grey

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Flair. I saw it in 2010 lol.