Remembering the Royal Rumble Matches That Occurred Outside of the PPV

The wild, massive Royal Rumble match has existed outside of the pay-per-view that goes by the same name.

WWE, like the wrestling industry as a whole, writes its own history. The history that WWE so often recounts says that the 2015 event will be the 28th time the Rumble bout will take place and that Jim Duggan won the first edition of the match back in 1988.

In reality, St. Louis hosted the first Rumble, a match that wasn't even televised.Other lesser-known versions of the clash happened at house shows and in the Far East, crowning the only woman to win a Rumble and giving Undertaker his second win. Some of them felt like Rumble-lites, while others shared the same scale of the real deal but with the victor celebrating in the darkness of obscurity



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