

Our next entrant was Timothy Well, Wrestlecrap inductee number six of the match. …until Bret Hart attacked his brother from behind before he could get to the ring. Five.įinally, Owen Hart entered, and this match at last had another contender to win and challenge for the title at Wrestlemania…

The number ten entrant was the returning Rick Martel, who, despite his lack of lapel button explaining this fact, was a model.
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After Kwang had already shown up on TV as Savio Vega because the WWF had decided to retire the ninja character. To give you an idea of how low on the totem pole Doink was by 1995, he jobbed to Kwang in the ninja’s last match. Kwang would eliminate Doink a few minutes later. Next came Kwang, the masked ninja from The Orient (or Puerto Rico).
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Then there was Doink, who was never inducted as a character, but who was responsible for two horrific Survivor Series matches that were, and was accompanied by Dink, one of the first inductees to the site. Now, you might think that the famous ending was the only memorable moment of this match… but not if you’re Earl Hebner, who surely remembers taking this unexpected plancha by “The Dumpster.” Next out was the wrestling garbageman Duke Droese, the second consecutive Wrestlecrap inductee of the match… Eli Blu, by the way, is the first Wrestlecrap inductee in this match. Keep in mind that “reality” in 1995’s WWF was pretty weird. Then reality hit in the form of an Appalachian mountain man dressed as Bruiser Brody with Nazi tattoos. Judging by the caliber of the first two entrance, you’d think the WWF was really pulling out the stops to put on a Rumble worthy of Pam Anderson, since it looked completely stacked. The second man in was The British Bulldog.ĭavey Boy didn’t wear his heart on his sleeve, but he did wear this penis on his tights. If I could re-arrange the Congressional districts, I’d put U and I closer together! No, actually it stood for “Themis Klarides,” the former Raw girl who would become the only wrestling personality to win an election in Connecticut. The Heartbreak Kid made a kissy face while flashing the letters “TK,” standing for up-and-coming country singer Toby Keith. The first man to enter the match was Shawn Michaels.

Nearly every misfit and weirdo on the scene was in the Rumble match that night. When the WWF did this in 1995, it was them showing off their actual roster. When WWE gathers up all of its oddballs into one segment nowadays, it’s always a set-up for Ron Simmons to walk in and say “Damn!” So when Pam arrived at the arena, who should greet her but a mob of freaks! The other special stipulation for this Royal Rumble was that the winner would not only receive a title shot at Wrestlemania XI, but would also be accompanied by Pamela Anderson. It’s a bit like trying to get in shape by driving to work every day, since it’s way faster and therefore more strenuous than biking or running. In fact, it required less conditioning than any Rumble before it, since a wrestler had to last only half as long to make it to the end. Yes, the Rumble itself was faster-paced in that people entered at shorter intervals, but it didn’t mean anyone in the match actually had to move any faster. Vince hyped up the 1995 Rumble as the fastest-paced ever, requiring great conditioning. That year, the Rumble match would have only sixty seconds between entrants, rather than the usual two minutes.
