10 Most Unwanted Records In WWE Royal Rumble History

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.