Royal Rumble 1999

just watched it again. One of my favourite rumbles. The coporation take it home with a mc mahon win.

and foley vs mankind in an I quit.

Those were the times.

adingoatemybaby wrote:

and foley vs mankind in an I quit.

I'm sure it was The Rock v Mankind

Anyway to the point. It wasn't my favourite Royal Rumble tbh but the storylines in it were great. I do think the PPV after the rumble - St Valentines day masacre was an awesome PPV. One of my favourite of all time.

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!! FFS

A good rumble but not anywhere near as good as the Rumble a year later

haha yeah rock v mankind obviously.

great show though. great show.

Worth the watch again just for the brutality of the Rock/Mankind match, all the more meaning now since we know that Rock went way over the top

Wasn't a fan of McMahon winning the Rumble at all though

The-Gaffer™ wrote:

Wasn't a fan of McMahon winning the Rumble at all though

Personally I didn't mind him winning the Rumble as long as he didn't go on to wrestle for the belt at Wrestlemania. I really enjoyed that storyline involving him. Also I didn't realise The Rock went overboard in that match. I thought it was all part of the show - and it made me think wow.

Mackem wrote:

Personally I didn't mind him winning the Rumble as long as he didn't go on to wrestle for the belt at Wrestlemania. I really enjoyed that storyline involving him. Also I didn't realise The Rock went overboard in that match. I thought it was all part of the show - and it made me think wow.

Yeah, says in Foley's book (probably one of the only genuine wrestling books ever) and he was shitting himself. They planned the chair shots and that but he kept giving him full on cracks, not helped by the fact he could cushion it with his hands. When he as crawling away it was genuine.

Only other person I've seen take chair shots like that was Shamrock, he used to get proper cracked too.

The PPV itself wasn't too bad as I remember but I wasn't too taken with the Rumble match.

The build up to the Rumble had made it pretty clear that it was pretty much a two-horse race and it seemed obvious from the start who the last two men in the ring would be which sort of rendered watching the whole match rather pointless. Plus I seem to remember that there was a lot of backstage stuff going on during the Rumble which detracted from the match.

Mackem wrote:

The-Gaffer™ wrote:

Wasn't a fan of McMahon winning the Rumble at all though

Personally I didn't mind him winning the Rumble as long as he didn't go on to wrestle for the belt at Wrestlemania. I really enjoyed that storyline involving him. Also I didn't realise The Rock went overboard in that match. I thought it was all part of the show - and it made me think wow.

Its in his book and on a DVD, Foley and Rock had agreed on 5 chair shots but I think Rocky nailed him with 11 full on hard head shots, don't think he missed with one of them, all in front of Foleys wife and kids, who you see in the DVD, Foley held a grudge for a while over it

Foley really put Rock on the map though through that program, the exact same thing he did a year later throughout a feud with Triple H

The-Gaffer™ wrote:

Mackem wrote:

The-Gaffer™ wrote:

Wasn't a fan of McMahon winning the Rumble at all though

Personally I didn't mind him winning the Rumble as long as he didn't go on to wrestle for the belt at Wrestlemania. I really enjoyed that storyline involving him. Also I didn't realise The Rock went overboard in that match. I thought it was all part of the show - and it made me think wow.

Its in his book and on a DVD, Foley and Rock had agreed on 5 chair shots but I think Rocky nailed him with 11 full on hard head shots, don't think he missed with one of them, all in front of Foleys wife and kids, who you see in the DVD, Foley held a grudge for a while over it

Foley really put Rock on the map though through that program, the exact same thing he did a year later throughout a feud with Triple H

Which he then did again with Edge. Foley makes stars

the rumble is one of my favorite matches when i use to buy 2 ppv a year it was the rumble and wrestlemania i thought they were good picks