10 Most Unwanted Records In WWE Royal Rumble History
There are some records that nobody really wants to lay claim to...
When it comes to the Royal Rumble match, getting your name in the record books isn’t necessarily a good thing.
While many have made headlines for all the right reasons, others haven’t been so lucky, and year after year we see an array of jobbers, jamokes, and jabronis battle to avoid scooping these most dubious of honours.
In fact, it’s not only the guys at the bottom of the card who’ve found themselves at risk of embarrassment—we’ve also seen plenty of bigger names being lumbered with these rather unwanted records.
So, if you find yourself losing sleep at night, plagued by wonderings of whose winning performance was the least impressive, who’s got into a habit of lasting less than 60 seconds, and who posted the longest Royal Rumble dry spell, don't fear: you’ve come to the right place.
10. Longest Time In A Single Rumble Without Winning
Bob Backlund: 1:01:10 (1993)
It’s all well and good lasting over an hour in the Royal Rumble, but is it really worth it if you don’t go on to win the thing outright?
Bob Backlund may well be wondering that, after he lasted a staggering one hour, one minute and ten seconds in 1993 having entered the match at number two. Cruelly though, he was the penultimate man to be tossed to the outside when the eventual winner Yokozuna sent him packing, rendering his 61-minute effort in vain.
Backlund’s time is all the more impressive when you consider it has only ever been beaten twice: first by Chris Benoit in 2004 before Rey Mysterio lasted even longer just a couple of years later in ’06. Unlike Backlund though, Benoit and Mysterio actually won their respective Rumbles off the back of their hour-plus stints, saddling Backlund with the record for the longest time in a single Rumble without ultimately winning.