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Event
Royal Rumble 1994

Date
Sat 22nd January 1994 UTC

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Time
00:00:00 UTC

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24-05-04 17:00 (PST Los Angeles)
24-05-04 19:00 (CST Chicago)
24-05-04 20:00 (EST New York)
24-05-05 01:00 (GMT London)
24-05-05 02:00 (CET Paris)
24-05-05 04:00 (GST Dubai)
24-05-05 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
24-05-05 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
24-05-05 10:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
WWE

Season
1994

Round
4

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(14,500 Attendance)

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Royal Rumble (1994) was the seventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on January 22, 1994, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The main event was the Royal Rumble match, a battle royal in which wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals. Lex Luger and Bret Hart were named co-winners after they simultaneously eliminated each other.

The first televised match of the pay-per-view was supposed to be Ludvig Borga vs. Tatanka. The two were engaged in a feud that began prior to Survivor Series 1993. Tatanka had been undefeated in the WWF since his debut in 1991. Borga ended this streak on the October 30, 1993 edition of WWF Superstars (taped on September 28, 1993), when he hit Tatanka with a steel chair while the referee was distracted. As a results of storyline injuries from this attack and the beating he suffered afterward at the hands of Borga and Yokozuna, Tatanka was forced to miss the main event match at Survivor Series. Although Tatanka defeated Borga by disqualification on the December 20, 1993 edition of Monday Night Raw, the bitterness between the two remained.

Borga suffered a legit ankle injury, however, and was replaced by Bam Bam Bigelow. Although the substitution took place shortly before the event, Bigelow and Tatanka also had a heated rivalry. In 1993, Bigelow had cut Tatanka's dyed red hair as an insult to his Lumbee heritage. The two faced each other as part of a six-man match at SummerSlam 1993, but the feud continued even after Tatanka's team emerged victorious.

At Survivor Series 1993, Owen Hart was eliminated during a elimination match when he crashed into his brother Bret Hart, who was walking along the ring apron, causing Owen to lose his focus and be pinned by Michaels. After the match, Owen interrupted his brothers’ victory celebration to verbally attack Bret. He demanded a match with Bret to settle the dispute. Bret refused, and the brothers reunited over the Christmas holidays. They decided to focus their energy on taking the tag team title from the Quebecers. Their plan was temporarily put on hold when Marty Jannetty and the 1-2-3 Kid won the belts, but the Quebecers won a rematch the following week, guaranteeing that the Harts would get their title shot.

Razor Ramon and Irwin R. Schyster (I.R.S.) began feuding prior to SummerSlam 1993 because of an angle in which Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and I.R.S.) teased Ramon about losing to the 1-2-3 Kid, a newcomer to the WWF. The rivalry heated up when I.R.S. stole Ramon's gold chains while Shawn Michaels had Ramon distracted. Ramon and I.R.S. agreed to settle the feud at Royal Rumble 1994 with Ramon's Intercontinental Championship on the line.

The rivalry between Yokozuna and The Undertaker began at Survivor Series 1993. Yokozuna, who was pushed as an unstoppable monster, was unable to inflict any serious damage on The Undertaker when the two faced each other in an elimination match. Yokozuna slammed The Undertaker’s head into the steel steps leading up to the ring, but The Undertaker was unharmed. Later, Yokozuna used his finishing move, the Banzai Drop, on The Undertaker. When he tried to repeat the move, however, The Undertaker became the first wrestler to sit up after the move, surprising Yokozuna and his managers. The Undertaker was granted a title shot, but Jim Cornette, Yokozuna’s American spokesperson, included a clause in the contract that The Undertaker would not get a rematch if he lost. Paul Bearer, The Undertaker’s manager, included a clause stating that the confrontation would take place in a Casket match. In the following weeks, it was revealed that Yokozuna had a fear of caskets. The Undertaker used this knowledge to gain a psychological advantage going into the match. On one occasion, Paul Bearer brought the casket to the ring to intimidate Yokozuna. When Yokozuna approached the casket to face his fear, the Undertaker popped out to scare Yokozuna.

Lex Luger wanted to participate in the Royal Rumble match, as the winner was scheduled to get a title shot for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania X. The contract he had signed for his title shot at SummerSlam 1993, however, stated that he would not receive a rematch if he failed to win the title. A compromise was reached, allowing Luger to compete. Yokozuna's manager, Mr. Fuji, was allowed to bring in two wrestlers, Genichiro Tenryu and The Great Kabuki to hurt Luger's chances of winning.


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Result List


Result Description
Singles Match
Tatanka defeats Bam Bam Bigelow (w/Luna Vachon) (8:12)

WWF World Tag Team Title Match
The Quebecers (Jacques & Pierre) (w/Johnny Polo) (c) defeat The Hart Brothers (Bret Hart & Owen Hart) by Ringrichterentscheid (16:48)

WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Razor Ramon (c) defeats Irwin R. Schyster (11:30)

WWF World Heavyweight Title Casket Match
Yokozuna (w/James E. Cornette & Mr. Fuji) (c) defeats The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) (14:20)

Royal Rumble Match
Bret Hart and Lex Luger defeat Adam Bomb and Bam Bam Bigelow and Bart Gunn and Billy Gunn and Bob Backlund and Crush and Diesel and Doink and Fatu and Greg Valentine and Jeff Jarrett and Kwang and Mabel and Marty Jannetty and Mo and Owen Hart and Randy Savage and Rick Martel and Rick Steiner and Samu and Scott Steiner and Shawn Michaels and Tatanka and Tenryu and The Great Kabuki and Thurman Sparky Plugg and Virgil (55:04)
- Scott Steiner eliminated Samu
- Owen Hart eliminated Rick Steiner
- Diesel eliminated Bart Gunn
- Diesel eliminated Scott Steiner
- Diesel eliminated Owen Hart
- Diesel eliminated Kwang
- Diesel eliminated Bob Backlund
- Diesel eliminated Billy Gunn
- Diesel eliminated Virgil
- Randy Savage eliminated Jeff Jarrett
- Crush eliminated Randy Savage
- Bam Bam Bigelow eliminated Doink
- Bam Bam Bigelow, Crush, Mabel and Thurman Sparky Plugg eliminated Diesel
- Bam Bam Bigelow, Crush, Greg Valentine, Shawn Michaels, Tatanka, The Great Kabuki and Thurman Sparky Plugg eliminated Mabel
- Lex Luger eliminated The Great Kabuki
- Lex Luger eliminated Crush
- Bret Hart eliminated Thurman Sparky Plugg
- Rick Martel eliminated Greg Valentine
- Tatanka eliminated Rick Martel
- Lex Luger eliminated Adam Bomb
- Fatu eliminated Mo
- Bam Bam Bigelow eliminated Tatanka
- Lex Luger eliminated Bam Bam Bigelow
- Shawn Michaels eliminated Marty Jannetty
- Bret Hart und Lex Luger eliminated Tenryu
- Bret Hart eliminated Fatu
- Lex Luger eliminated Shawn Michaels
- Bret Hart and Lex Luger eliminated one another


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