10 Biggest WWE Royal Rumble Falls From Grace

10. The Returning Legend Becomes A Disposable Body - Bob Backlund

With two reigns as WWE Champion under his belt - including one that lasted an impressive 1,470 days before coming to an end at the hands of the Iron Sheik - Bob Backlund made his WWE exit in 1984.

Backlund made a quiet return to the company in late 1992, and he surprisingly became the iron man of the 1993 Royal Rumble that. Not just was Bob somewhat of a surprise entrant in that contest, more surprising was how the veteran lasted over an hour after entering the match at #2 - being the second-to-last person to be eliminated from the contest, as Yokozuna went onto emerge victorious.

Skip ahead a year, and this favourite of yesteryear had a vastly different Royal Rumble outing. As part of Diesel's decimation of the '94 Rumble match, Backlund was eliminated after just 41 brief seconds.

As the insta-smiling, baby-kissing, granny-hugging Bob Backlund character had spent the past 12 months struggling to fully connect with the '90s WWE audience, 1994 wasn't a total bust for the amateur standout - for a character change rewarded Backlund with one final, extremely brief WWE Championship that served as the perfect way to move the title from Bret Hart to Diesel.