Ranking Every WWE Title Match At Royal Rumble - From Worst To Best

31. Royal Rumble 1996 - Bret Hart Vs. The Undertaker

As a huge fan of the Hitman, it's genuinely painful for your writer to have to throw shade at a Bret Hart match. Even more so when that match includes the Undertaker, an opponent with whom Bret had several classic contests over the years. 

Still, there's no avoiding the fact that the pair's 1996 Royal Rumble match was just such a disappointment, going way, way longer than it needed to.  Hart had long proved he could work magic in lengthy contests, and 'Taker would likewise deliver some fantastic longer matches of his own later in his career, but here it just didn't work.

It also didn't help matters that the match ended in a disqualification, with the Phenom getting a DQ win after Diesel attacked Earl Hebner following nearly 30 minutes of sluggish action - meaning that the Excellence of Execution, the defending champion, retained his WWF Title.

For a far better bout between Bret Hart and the Undertaker, be sure to check out their One Night Only match from 1997 or their SummerSlam match from earlier that same year. That's not to mention the eponymous main event of In Your House: Final Hour, where the two also had Vader and Steve Austin along for the ride in a brilliant four-way elimination battle for the vacant WWF Championship.