10 WORST WWE Royal Rumble Eliminations

[@georgemetcalf8763]

I wanna see a Rumble where #29 and whoever is left get eliminated and #30 comes out celebrating like they're hot shit with fireworks and everything. The fans would riot.

[@seantaft3853]

An early Shimmer show (we're talking single digit number) had a pre-show Rumble where this happened. Clearly, they didn't take it seriously as they were "giving the men an opportunity" for the Rumble.

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Considering that Kane went on to be a redneck mayor pushing looney tunes libertarian nonsense that self elimination isn't that crazy haha

[@Oceanman905]

It would only work if it was R Truth

[@LexingtonDeville984]

How the 93 Rumble should have ended - Savage hits elbow drop, doesn’t pin Yoko, waits for Yoko to get up, Yoko charges forward, Savage low bridges the ropes, Yoko tumbles out, and Savage/Hart is the Mania 9 main event.

[@axebomber2108]

That would have been a good one.

[@LexingtonDeville984]

@@axebomber2108 It definitely would. And Yoko would have probably squashed Backlund or Hogan.

[@RobertJW]

I'm impressed that in 2022 Rumble season has brought about different lists from every channel doing one. Well done.

[@nicholaschristie8699]

For the last one, the vibe I get is that nobody in the back, wrestlers, backstage management or otherwise, had the idea to tell Macho Man about the rules of the match. We all know that people in the business, especially in WWE, keep secrets from each other.

[@letsseethatsmile9620]

Dude. Who told Undertaker to go get him?

[@zanethind]

Or he just didn't care for the rules? Lol

[@hhtptai]

Alex Riley's theme music was the best thing that came out of his entire WWE career.

[@swavyypressure9417]

“SAY IT TO MY FACE!” Absolute banger of a theme.

[@ThisIsFiveEighteen]

PUSH RAGE

[@num1Jaysta]

Beating the shit out of The Miz as well

[@robcassey6043]

Kane being chased by "asylum seekers"!!!! I think you mean asylum workers. Lol! Two very different things

[@tafua_a]

You mean you've never been chased by a Syrian refugee trying to put you in a straightjacket?

[@veevendetta3448]

He probably does not live in Canada bro. Lol

[@stevelowe2647]

@@veevendetta3448 happens in Canada too does it? Its a big problem in England too, you have to be careful, as soon as the sun goes down, the asylums seekers are out with their straitjackets

[@joshissimple]

This also just confused the shit out of me.

[@Robyamdam]

@@stevelowe2647 I had to chokeslam 3 last night

[@agentorange1156]

I hate when they get eliminated off screen. Like Kofi in 2016 and Chris Benoit in 2007

[@ThisIsFiveEighteen]

DDP in 2002 and Steiner in 2004

[@lucasbell4831]

Please don’t mention Chris Benoit, 2007, and off screen in the same sentence.

[@Hxhjli]

@@lucasbell4831 right good lord

[@aye_its_karate6169]

@@lucasbell4831 he can mention anyone he wants to mention, brother dude brother😤💯

[@judeelaman1902]

​@@lucasbell4831and "eliminated"

[@DJDoubleCee]

Okay, being disqualified from the rumble was completely stupid and what the hell was Randy Savage thinking by pinning Yokozuna in the rumble match?!

[@kyleshea384]

To be fair they do establish, that Yokozuna could not be lifted by most stars. And that was when he could stand, try lifting 500lbs of dead weight off the ground. Though yeah pinning him was not the best solution

[@averageant7173]

I vaguely remember Gorilla Monsoon on commentary saying why is Macho Man going for the pin? But what’s worse was Yoko’s bench press of Savage was botched so badly, it looked like Savage just jumped out of the ring himself

[@kevrulz06]

The 2007 Rumble where RVD kicked Chris Masters in a way that was supposed to send him over, but it clearly looked like a light kick and Masters turning around and flipping himself over. It's hard to watch.

[@DukeOfJam7591]

Alex Riley looks as if you mixed The Miz and John Cena's faces together

[@4amcripple]

Damn......yeah......damn

[@FranklinSteele]

Whoever penned that wedding cake analogy deserves a raise. Great writing.

[@FranklinSteele]

@Tom Campbell High five that human for me if you have the opportunity, please. ")

[@killingragethrowback]

Riley's case is classic Vince Mcmahon booking. No room for improvisation in the event of accidents. Has anyone ever dared to tell Del Rio that his uncle eliminated himself?

[@mclew1234]

Not sure they were asylum seekers if they worked at the nut house

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

I feel like Kali would have been better suited as some little bastard's enforcer rather than as an actual wrestler

[@jedediahcoulbourne1791]

@@VelvetMetrolink as much as I wanna argue you're not wrong

[@CamPlaysPlanetZoo]

Not sure "Asylum Seekers" was the phrase you wanted there.

[@thejokingcat783]

Slip of the tongue most likely. He goes on the refer to them as Asylum Workers a few seconds later.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

@@thejokingcat783 I'm sure it was just a slip-of-the-tongue too but it's a very odd and funny one.

[@violetboyle2864]

Tom has such a good delivery for these lists

[@nickmontoya3001]

Speaking of jumping the gun....Rick Rude jumped the gun in 1990 rumble, commentators even mentioned that he entered early because they didn't see the countdown till after he entered

[@robertclark2253]

Al Snow jumped the gun as well in 2001 .

[@breazy832]

Anyone else think it’s adorable how excited Tom is for this video it’s like he finally beat Adam at rock, paper, scissors so he got to do this list lol

[@StillOnFire]

Titus O'Neal is great and I will stand by that. Prime Time Playaz were a solid tag team, and the whole Titus Worldwide thing had real momentum which was then sabataged as it was getting over for a brief period, he played the whole delusional manager role to Apollo so well.

[@StillOnFire]

WWE could actualy do something with an O'Neal comedic character in a similar mold to Terry Crews from Brooklyn 99. Just a thought. Titus has shown some comedic chops in the past.

[@daamovieguy]

Bummed we didn't get the Chavo Guerrero elimination. He climbed the top rope, to do a Frog splash as tribute. Trips H pushes him off the turnbuckle, and he's eliminated. He didn't go over the top at all.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

How is climbing to the top rope and getting pushed off not going over the top rope?

[@4amcripple]

@@BiggieTrismegistus if Im remembering correctly he never entered the ring. He climbed the turnbuckle from the outside.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

@@4amcripple Ah, I see. Thanks for the context. Obviously we're dealing with Royal Rumble rules that can change on a whim and are poorly defined, but I consider climbing to the top rope (even from the outside) as "re-entering the ring".

[@MrJamBluejam]

Hogan's toddler tantrum eliminating Sid in 92 will always be a shittier elimination than a battered, desperate Macho Man trying to survive Yokozuna in my book.

[@axebomber2108]

I know Hogan's ways but I don't understand why even he would want to portray a sore loser on TV.

[@Mattcruzedc]

2015 is the worst booked match. Maybe if they had rusev be eliminated before Kane and big show instead of having him run in after they beat reigns and the rock doing his run in, it may have been a bit better? Maybe?

[@dennett316]

Nah, the crowd were long since gone before then. They checked out after Daniel Bryan's lame elimination. Nothing after that, other than Reigns getting eliminated, would've made things better.

[@Mattcruzedc]

@@dennett316 I agree, I’m just saying having rusev wait until after all the stuff with show/Kane/rock didn’t make any sense. He should have been eliminated well before all that stuff.

[@jeusjohn9971]

Finlay was disqualified bc he went out before his alotted spot, that's what their rules were in 2008 🤷‍♂️

[@joshzumstien6289]

I knew Savage 93 would have to be number 1. As an old school fan I knew nothing could top that ending even though it was almost 30 years ago

[@SEiiBUTSU]

It always irks me that everyone says (narratively) mil mascaras eliminated himself. The thing is, if you actually watch what he does, he deliberately goes under the top rope and climbed on the turnbuckle from OUTSIDE before leaping. Now in story the refs don't see this and eject him. But that fans still to this day insist he climbed to the top from inside still quietly drives me loopy.

[@garyblackburn3080]

Well i see your point...but ask this...if he was no longer in the match after that spot....wasnt he technically eliminated from the match? He didnt fight much or object afterwards (narratively)

[@SEiiBUTSU]

@@MattrickBT turnbuckle.

[@JustinEvitable80]

Technically, the turnbuckle in inside the ring. Being directly on top of it counts as being in the ring.

[@RobertJW]

@@JustinEvitable80 so he went under the top rope, but then climbed onto the turnbuckle and thus technically got in the ring again. Then jumped off the turnbuckle, over the top rope, eliminating himself.

[@SEiiBUTSU]

@@JustinEvitable80 the turnbuckles buckle to the ring post and hold the rings that make the ropes tort. The ropes are being pulled in four directions for this to work and are pulled from outside. The ropes are the innermost boundaries of the legal ring area. The posts and turnbuckles are on the outer part of the ring area, the apron, well known for being the hardest part of the ring *points and winks*, while the rings and padding is, inside the rope area, the bulk of the turnbuckle is outside. Beyond all that, the man clearly goes through the ropes, outside the boundaries of the top rope, and then stays outside the boundaries, leaping in a diagonal path, adjacent to the hard cam side of the ring and its ropes.

[@abbeymeteora]

Mil Mascaras just didn't want someone else to eliminate him because he has too much damn pride. So instead he jumps out like a tool and the announcers make him look stupid anyway.

[@shebandofficial]

Let's not forget about the injustice that is the elimination of Syd Justice in 1992. That piece of shit Hulk Hogan can't take a loss to save his life.

[@Ashannon888]

I always feel bad whenever Khali shows up in these lists. Whe3n he was healthy the dude was actually damn good. But when he got to the WWE his joints were shot and he couldn;t do anything, so most people think he was always a no talent big guy.

[@stevegallo8483]

Khali shows up on these lists, because all most people know about Khali's wrestling career is from his time in WWE. By the time he got to WWE, he was pretty well immobile.

[@DarylSpykerman]

I'm always tickled by the Singapore cane reference @0:20

[@piri6071]

cm punk's 2014 kane elimination gotta be up there lmao

[@HighestTrailsAbove]

That is just....sad.

[@joshuaandrus4332]

I saw Kane at the Bryce Jordan center in state college pa and hands down the biggest wrestler I have ever seen he towered above everyone and he had the biggest build slash arms then anyone else in the roster he was a true monster absolutely enormous

[@michaelscriver5395]

Even with the Austin mess up at 1997 and Cena and batista bushwackers will always hold my number one spot for me

[@ThandrieDavis]

Absolutely loved #2. EVERYONE hated it.

[@martinrubio3084]

2015 rumble everyone was expecting daniel Bryan to win

[@georgekings3413]

You forgot to mention that Mil Mascaras didnt eliminate himself, because before he went to the top rope he stepped in between the ropes to get to the top. Therefore still legally in.

[@axebomber2108]

So there's still a chance he could win.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Can you "go to the top rope" without going over the top rope?

[@woobgamer5210]

@@BiggieTrismegistus No not really. The top of the turnbuckle, is above the top rope. Jumping off the top of the turnbuckle and jumping out of the ring, counts as getting eliminated.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

@@woobgamer5210 That's my line of thinking as well.

[@jpbart1390]

i'm surprised sid's '92 elimination wasn't on this list.

[@wwemonkey619]

Also Big Bossman from '92

[@TheMarcoC]

British Bulldog! His music was already playing!!!

[@zachf3788]

6:06 seeing Corbin in red holding up Adam Rose will never be strange to me

[@monstermikeheinrichs]

Weirder for me is when I see someone like Braun Strowman as a Rosebud.

[@codyboyle8336]

Great work Tom

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

The Great Khalil-Omos

[@ChrisCollins0928]

In the 1995 Royal Rumble Billy and Bart Gunn end up wrestling each other which allows Crush to Eliminate both of them. Also found this strange as Gunns withdrew from the Tag Match with Bam Bam and Tatanka cause Bart was injured for them both to be in the rumble

[@guillermosierracuellar9812]

If we also include the ones from the greatest rumble I have to say Mike kanellis Hiroki sumí Miz 2007 Coachman Boogeyman No way jose

[@franklingoodwin]

The Greatest Royal Rumble isn't canon

[@4amcripple]

@@franklingoodwin 😂

[@davidprewett9496]

Tom Campbells narration is the best thing I’ve heard in a while.. the man is a storyteller

[@KayfabeClub]

Royal Rumble is my favourite gimmick match of all time!

[@stoneharper7038]

Randy Savage might be the patron Saint of not understanding the rules of the Royal Rumble lol

[@tafua_a]

The 93 Rumble one could be explained away as Savage collapsing on Yoko after the Elbow Drop and then being powered over the top rope. Still looks bad, but at least it's enough of an excuse to bump it down a couple of positions.

[@ninjaworshipper]

Maybe you avoided it to not be "obvious" but Bryan's elimination in 2015 was really that bad

[@KingsNerdCave]

Savage should have won in 1993, put over Bret Hart at Mania 9 to salvage that awful show with a great main event, then you could book Bret to lose to Yokozuna, and rematch at Mania 10.

[@franklingoodwin]

The Royal Rumble self elimination is just dumb, because it goes against the original rules of the Royal Rumble that stated you must be eliminated by an opponent. I'm not sure exactly when WWE decided to go against that rule, but once it did there's no putting the genie back in the bottle

[@robertclark2253]

In the second Royal Rumble in 1989 Andre The Giant eliminated himself to get away from Jake The Snake's python Damian seems self elimination has been a trend since then .

[@Tomsk5]

I'm not sure if it ever was a rule - just that when Macho Man jumped over the rope when he wasn't supposed to (as described in the video), Bobby Heenan on commentary tried to cover by saying you have to be thrown out by someone. Having self-elimination makes more sense - else you'd technically have to allow those people whose own momentum takes them over the rope back in, because no one threw them over.

[@woobgamer5210]

@@Tomsk5 don't forget that moment where... was it Santino or Hornswoggle? I forgot, went out under the rope, went under the ring mat for a while, came back in and won the rumble, since they never got thrown OVER the rope

[@joshgarza7779]

If you look closely at Titus O'Neill's boots at 6:01, he's wearing a pair of Sheamus' boots!😆🤦‍♂️

[@dyne313]

Mil Mascaras: I don't want to look weak, so instead I'll look stupid.

[@Nbflowers1989]

Love the list!

[@TheMemeMachineMatt]

Man Alex Riley was so wasted...

[@matthewbesson5367]

Poor Titus. "I need you to pull off a real delicate physical feat along with X number of other guys in front of a stadium of people live in PPV." Titus fails and Vince goes insane. Small wonder people don't want to work there. Jeebus.

[@zmbdog]

My worst was Kharma's because I didn't want her eliminated. Certainly not so quickly.

[@Sir_Young]

Mil Máscaras went through the middle rope, climbed the turnbuckle and then jumped out. I don’t feel like that was a self elimination 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@ajtp1349]

The top rope is what he was on so he went over it

[@Sir_Young]

@@ajtp1349 whatever helps you sleep at night.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

The rope runs through the turnbuckle. By climbing it he went over the top rope (and thus into the ring) and then left the ring by jumping off that turnbuckle which had the top rope running through it. That's a self-elimination.

[@Mattcruzedc]

I will say at least WWE are consistent in their booking in that they still don’t listen to the fans.

[@Runnerboy2012]

Think they have got a little better - there are a number or genuine crowd pleaser moments in recent times

[@woobgamer5210]

@@Runnerboy2012 tbh, i disagree, i dont like the new talent. at all. And the writing... is a dumpster fire.

[@Runnerboy2012]

@@woobgamer5210 in terms of listening to the fans: 1. They turned Roman heel 2. They kept RK-bro together long past when they intended to. 3. They put the title on 2 out of 3 of new day There’s a lot of issues but these are examples of listening to the crowds slightly more than they did

[@bloodsimple94]

Asylum seekers?

[@HeartyArtie]

These guys are like Ron Burgundy, they'll read whatever's put in front of them without question.

[@michaelscriver5395]

Royal rumble is classic nuff said

[@JaimeD.]

Some Royal Rumble eliminations were unnecessary and dumb as f'ck that would come back to bite badly later during the season of WM.

[@salvadoracosta4510]

Hey it's Tom on the voiced over! 👏

[@1992geop]

Mil Mascaras = Mr. No Yob.

[@petter215jones]

Figured the Bushwhackers or macho man was #1 😂

[@mattiedoa4070]

The great kali also eliminated him self twice in one rumble too.

[@luiskarnov6131]

He was called "Savage" for a reason lol

[@AngelH91]

You post this and then we watch Kofi only a few days later in a way self eliminate...

[@simeonwalston5753]

Can you do quick video about Mandy that was with Too Cool and Victoria during the fall of 2000 with the WWF?

[@letsseethatsmile9620]

Matching bodycasts. Im laughing out loud and have no clue why.

[@martinrubio3084]

Great khali eliminated first bad impression

[@laurencedaffern1959]

Hornswoggle 2008

[@mojo3999]

Khali is the modern day Giant Gonzales

[@zanethind]

Over the time you can tell the Rumble's rules change like with the 2008 Royal Rumble the rules are there's no DQ and literally Finlay hot DQ'd my god lol

[@mrimpossible4353]

Whoa now. If someone puts there finger on a cake nowadays the weddings canceled. Covid bro. Can't be to safe.

[@jeremyriley1238]

The Steve Austin elimination is stupid, especially since the Texas Rattlesnake still got into Wrestlemania because the Raw after, Vince decided to forfeit his spot in the match, hoping to get it where The Rock chooses his own opponent, only for the commissioner at the time, Shawn Michaels, to tell him by doing so, the runner up takes his place.

[@scaparapadoobedoooo3170]

Cam Tompbell

[@dokoookami5751]

Gotta be said - Mil at '97 didn't even eliminate himself. He went through the ropes, then climbed up the turnbuckle, then jumped. Never went over the top - just OFF the post. Too dumb to even weasel out of a job properly. Props to his hardworking waistband tho

[@RustyShackleford101]

8:01 I think you meant "Asylum employees" not "asylum seekers". Unless you did, in which case, bad show.....

[@TheGlitched64]

I can't remember if it was '90 or '91 but I remember one rumble where the camera and commentary were so focused on Andre The Giant being eliminated no one noticed Bret Hart also getting eliminated, commentary later going "Oh, I think Bret is eliminated as well actually". Not a bad elimination more than just funny, just skipping over an icon like that XD

[@shameyboismith3505]

Lana from 2018 deserves to be here

[@13Mordecai13]

Mil Mascaras went through the rope first then climbed the rope. He was outside of the ring so not eliminated. 1:47:00 on the network

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

@@tomcampbell2279 Right. Even if Mil Mascaras wasn't de jure eliminated he was de facto eliminated and that's what really matters. It's like in baseball where a pitch may be a strike according to the rule book but if the ump says it's a ball, it's a ball.

[@sameeknowsitall]

Alex Riley 😂

[@AlexanderJordan-sv7nm]

Can’t help but feel like Randy Savages elbow drop should have been a splash or something instead

[@lukedangerfallon]

Mascarus went under the ropes before he climbed up anyway

[@benpezzot8805]

He refused to get eliminated by anyone so he just went over the top rope

[@1992geop]

No Yob

[@jerranspearman3369]

good video

[@daneanderson7437]

Is Spike in the HOF? If not, it’s a crime that Khali is and so many others aren’t

[@martinrubio3084]

Mark henry did become world champion

[@c.kerns0118]

Im waiting for the rumble the planned winner accidentally gets eliminated in the middle instead of the end like batista and Cena did

[@RushyDTD]

Take it you meant Asylum workers and not asylum seekers aye 😂

[@boofoorequiem]

I’m pretty sure Finlay was disqualified because he jumped his number. Even still it’s kind of dumb.

[@chadzbirdzofficial4631]

I hope Bad Bunny wins mens rumble & Brandi Rhodes as surprise entrant wins womans

[@jjwilliams1098]

I don't think Mil Mascaras should have been eliminated in 1997. He went under the ropes before he jumped off the top rope..

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

The way I look at it is that being "in the ring"* is determined by an imaginary plane from the middle of the ropes all the way up to the ceiling and down to the floor. When he climbed the top rope and part of his body crossed that plane, he was back "in the ring". By jumping off to the outside he went "over the top rope" *- To further clarify my rules: for a westler to be officially in the match they must cross that imaginary plane and have both feet touch the mat. Thus, if a tall wrestler did the thing where they enter the ring by stepping over the top rope, clotheslining them while they're doing that wouldn't count as an elimination.

[@willjeffrey2285]

I literally just watch the Royal Rumble and wrestlemania

[@BLCKSMTHApparel]

Stupid match concept. Will never take off like the Reverse Battle Royal

[@lilpoetat]

thanks!

[@zomaz]

I was expecting to see Hornswoggle being eliminated by Sheamus, where he gets Brogue Kicked on the top turn buckle and very obviously climbs down to the floor and falls over.

[@4amcripple]

@@MattrickBT seriously, little dude probably would have died 😂

[@m0rfans]

Drs and staff at an Asylum are not "Asylum seekers". :-)

[@jerryjanik480]

Titus O'Neil all doing car commercials car dealership dealership in Western New York area

[@Tormund_Giantsbrain]

Macho King Randall was so much better than Booman Lame.

[@kevinwallace4646]

Mil mascaras went through the ropes to dive on them not an elimination go watch it maybe through ropes counted then so many rule change

[@jimsmith8993]

It used to matter

[@Iroquois777]

MIL DIDN'T ELIMINATE HIMSELF HE WENT THROUGH THE MIDDLE ROPE!!!!!