Royal Rumble (1988)

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The 1988 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling television special produced by the American promotion World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the inaugural Royal Rumble event and took place on January 24, 1988, at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The event aired live on the USA Network on the same night as Jim Crockett Promotions's Bunkhouse Stampede pay-per-view (PPV) event. It centered on the men's Royal Rumble match, a modified battle royal in which the participants enter at timed intervals instead of all beginning in the ring at the same time. The match, however, was not the main event (final match). This would be the only Royal Rumble event to broadcast as a television special, as beginning with the 1989 event, it began airing on pay-per-view. After the launch of the WWE Network in 2014, this inaugural Royal Rumble was included with the rest of the Royal Rumble events in the PPV section. It was also the only Royal Rumble event to be held outside the United...

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