Royal Rumble (1998) was the eleventh annual Royal Rumble. It was presented by MCI's 1-800-COLLECT, and took place on January 18, 1998 at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California. The main event was a casket match between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker for the WWF Championship. The main matches on the undercard were the Royal Rumble match, The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) versus The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and The Rock versus Ken Shamrock for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
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| Title | : | WWE Royal Rumble 1998 |
| Release Date | : | January 18, 1998 |
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| Genres | : | Action, Drama |
| Production Co. | : | World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) |
| Production Countries | : | United States of America |
| Director | : | Kevin Dunn |
| Casts | : | Shawn Michaels, Dwayne Johnson, Leon White, Steve Austin, Paul Michael Lévesque, Mike Tyson, Rena Mero, Glenn Thomas Jacobs, Mark Calaway, Chyna, Joseph Michael Laurinaitis,Michael James Hegstrand, Brian James, Monty Sopp, Ken Shamrock, Dustin Runnels, Mick Foley,Terry Funk, Chaz Warrington, Dennis Knight, Ron Harris, John Layfield, Owen Hart, Accie Julius Connor, Marc Mero, Glenn Ruth, Mick Foley, Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, The Honky Tonk Man, Tony Norris, Mark Henry, Mark Henry, Don Harris, Charles Wright, Mark Canterbury, Juan Rivera, Ron Simmons |
| Alternative Titles | : |
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WWE Royal Rumble 1998 Reviews
- Great eventby on 23 February 20003 out of 3 people found the following review useful:This is a great video. I mean you have many great matches including the royal rumble itself. There is also a midget match with the legendary Max Mini. This is a must see for any wrestling fan preferably WWF.
- Great rumble match, but rest was averageby on 20 May 2014from Czech Republic1. Artist formerly known as Goldust Vs. Vader - Vader nicely defeated that freak with Luna on his back, which want to help her pet. 7.5/102.Battallion/Tarantula/ El Torito Vs. Max mini/Nova/Mosaic - Midget wrestling was never my cup of tea, reminds me children. Crowd was DEFINITELY dead. And me either. (About 17 arm drags) Didn't matter who win that. 5/103. WWF Intercontinental Title Match: Champ-The Rock Vs. Ken Shamrock -Screwed ending. Victory was ASSIGNED to Rock 7.5/104. WWF Tag Team Title Match: Champs-New Age Outlaws Vs. Legion of Doom - DQ ending in an usual match 6/105. Royal Rumble Match: Middle part was quite boring, but nice choice for winner, and the final stunner was cool. Rock nice sold it. 8/106. WWF World Heavyweight Title Casket Match: Shawn Michaels Vs. The Undertaker - Kane one more time helped Shawn beat The Undertaker. 7/10
- The end (or at least significant hiatus) in one career and the beginning of anotherby on 2 November 2009from Australia1998 was a new year in the WWE and they wasted no time setting their agenda for th next twelve months with Vince McMahon announcing that Stone Cold Steve Austin, ruffian that he was, would not make a responsible champion for the WWE and that he would be a marked man in the Royal Rumble match.In other matters Ken Shamrock, after getting screwed out of the WWE Championship at In Your House: D-Generation X was now setting his sights on The Rock's Intercontinental belt, while the WWE Champion Shawn Michaels was going to have his own problems taking on the Undertaker in a casket match.The night started off though with a throwaway opener which saw Vader defeat Goldust despite the interference of Luna Vachon. Vader delivered the Vader bomb on Goldust, prompting Luna to jump on his back. Vader simply threw her off and pinned Goldust.Next match saw much hollering at the start as Sunny came to the ring in a referee's shirt to officiate the six man midget tag match won by the team of Max Mini, Nova and Mosaic over Battalion, Tarantula and El Torito. Like most midget matches this one was quick and repetitive, so it loses more appeal as it goes along. Average overall.The next match saw Ken Shamrock defeat the Rock after the Rock had knocked him out with some brass knucks. Unfortunately for Shamrock the Rock had hidden the knucks in his trunks. The referee found the knucks and disqualified Shamrock meaning the Rock got the win and kept the intercontinental Championship. This was a fun little match. Shamrock was not a terrible wrestler, but never quite seemed to fully adjust from MMA.Next up came a pretty bad tag match with WWE Tag team CHampions The New Age Outlaws (The bad Ass Billy Gunn and the Road Dogg Jesse James) putting their belts on the line against the Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) Hawk was handcuffed to the outside of the ring by the Outlaws., but the Animal was able to powerbomb Gunn and looked likely to get the win before his pin attempt was broken up by a chair shot from Road Dogg. The Outlaws retained their titles but didn't have much to be proud of. Even though this was bad match, it did a nice job of telling a story and got you to actually want to see someone beat the Outlaws for those damned belts.Next came the Royal Rumble match. The Rock came in at 4 and lasted the longest. Along with his faction the Nation of Domination led by Farooq, Rock dominated the Rumble until Steve Austin came to the ring as entrant 24. Still though the final four saw Nation team mates Farooq and the Rock remaining with Steve Austin and Dude Love. Dude Love was actually the third character Foley had appeared as in this Rumble match. He had started the rumble against Chainsaw Charlie as Cactus Jack before being eliminated and returning as Mankind, which again saw him eliminated. Dude Love quickly made his exit then it was Farooq and the Rock pounding on Austin, until that is The Rock turned on Farooq and eliminated his leader. Austin then took control, hitting the stone cold stunner and throwing the Rock over the top rope to win the match and a title shot at Wrestlemania. His final tally was 7 eliminations. His victory sparked the first of many occasions that JR screamed out "Stone Cold!!! Stone Cold!!!" on commentary. Watching on approvingly from a corporate box was former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, apparently a Stone Cold fan.This brings us to the main event, a casket match for the WWE Championship with Shawn Michaels defeating the Undertaker following interference first from hi D-Geberation X cronies and then from his brother Kane. Kane was not stopping there though. He locked Undertaker into the casket and then wheeled it up the ramp, poured some gasoline on top and set it on fire. The Tomb was then opened revealing only ashes on the bottom. Undertaker's voice came over the titantron and said he would never "rest in peace." This had been a good match, but had lasting repercussions. In what looked like an innocuous incident, Michaels had hit the middle of his back on top of the coffin after being thrown over the top rope. The blow actually was a serious one and just months later forced his retirement from professional wrestling.So there you go. 1998 Royal Rumble, like many PPvs of the next two years did nothing special in the ring, but the show told a story, the two big matches were good enough and it is well worth a look more than a decade later.
- Great!!!by on 13 August 2007from United KingdomI Thought the 1998 RR was a good event, Vader V Goldust was an OK match to open the show. Max Mini Mosaic and Nova V Batallion, Tarantula and El Torito was a fun match. Sunny played a nice role as the referee, i hadn't seen her much before but she looked hot. The Rock V Ken Shamrock was a good match, Rocky continued to impress and rise to the ranks, (my favourite Wrestler too). NAO V Road Warriors was a cool match too, DX Rule, and no doubt NAO were the best tag team in the WWE back then. The Royal Rumble itself was intense and excellent, Rocky did well and lasted to the end before being eliminated by Steve Austin who won the Rumble. HBK V Undertaker was match of the night and put on a great casket match. Shame HBK retired for 4 years shortly after. Also the ending was amazing and one not to be missed, Overall a Decent Show, ill give it an 8 out of 10.
- Stone Cold Stone Cold Stone Cold!by on 12 November 2002from Old Hickory, Tennessee(Spoiler Alert) Once again the 1998 Royal Rumble took place in San Jose, California. In our opening match we had Vader taking on Goldust, who at the time was transforming his character into even weirder costumes. Vader won with the Vader splash, he did it with Luna on his back which was pretty awesome, decent match to start the night off. The 2nd match of the night wasn't needed at all. We had a 6-man midget match which should never be on PPV's, they can be cute at times but overall in my opinion should be left off PPV's, however we had Max Mini, Nova & Mosaic vs Battallion, El Torito & Tarantula, way too many arm drags in this match, it gets a little better towards the end however. Then the Rock retained his ic title over Ken Shamrock winning by DQ, Shamrock actually pinned the Rock with a belly to belly suplex but the Rock put brass knuckles in Shamrock's tights and the ref dq'd him and Rock kept the belt. The Outlaws then retained their tag titls by DQ as well when Road Dogg hit Animal in the back with a chair, decent tag title match but DQ finishes are weak. Stone Cold Steve Austin won the Royal Rumble last eliminating the Rock, and Ross went nuts lol. Mick Foley came in 3 times as his different personas of Cactus Jack then Mankind then Dude Love, pretty funny idea. Vader was #30 but only lasted a minute or so. And in our main event HBK retained his heavyweight title by defeating the Undertaker with help from several other wrestlers but since it was a casket match it was no dq. Good match overall, HBK delivered an awesome piledriver to the Undertaker on top of the steal steps! He also hit an elbow drop from the top rope onto the Undertaker while inside the casket, two reasons why he is the show stopper! However Kane came down and tombstoned the Undertaker into the casket then afterwards locked it up and set it on fire which was pretty cool. Overall pretty good Rumble 8/10.
- Great! Great! Great!by on 12 January 2001from CaliforniaThis was the most graetest Pay Per View I have ever seen live.Yes i was their at the San Jose Arena.The first match was great Vader Vader Bombed Goldust with Luna on top of Vader.The Casket match between Sean Michaels and The Undertaker was great.When The Undertaker was in the Casket and Sean was standing on top of it Undertaker stuck his hand up and grabed Sean Michaels jewels,and when Stone Cold one the Royal Rumble it was best thing ever.
- Memorableby on 6 May 20000 out of 4 people found the following review useful:Royal Rumble is a great event in the WWF, and in 1998 it was better than ever. This time, Stone Cold Steve Austin defied the odds and won the coveted Royal Rumble to face Shawn Michaels in his final match 2 months later. Mike Tyson also makes a funny cameo as himself (which leads up to him at Wrestlemania XIV). Entertaining and satisfying, with the Rock as Rocky Maivia. A+
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