The NFL has a playoff system that leads to the SuperBowl.� The WWE has the Royal Rumble that leads to Wrestlemania.� It’s a chance for everything in WWE to change in one night.� Fans can really “expect the unexpected.� It’s the match that allows a new course, a new direction to be set.� Everything that makes wrestling amazing in one match.
My love affair with the Royal Rumble started when I saw it live for the first time.� In the winter of 1994 during my freshman year at Emerson College, I boarded a Greyhound bus with another passionate wrestling fan Chris Garcia and went from Boston to Providence, Rhode Island to see the Royal Rumble.� On that night, Owen Hart turned his back on his brother Bret, The Undertaker rose to the heavens after being destroyed by every bad guy on the roster, and a controversial decision in the Royal Rumble match left Bret Hart and Lex Luger “co-winners