10 Fascinating WWE Royal Rumble 2006 Facts
4. It Was The First Rumble In Eight Years Where The Rumble Match Didn't Finish
When arena-goers and fans at home realized that the Rumble match was starting around the start of the show's second hour, confusion abounded. After Edge and John Cena's WWE Championship match began and those same fans realized that Mark Henry (pre-2011 discovery of awesomeness) was going on last, they began wondering if somebody had spiked their beverages.
For the first time since the 1998 Rumble, the 30-man match was not the closer. That made it the fifth time in Rumble history that the event played out that way. It was also the first Rumble to have two matches take place following the Rumble match.
When the special effect following the Kurt Angle/Mark Henry match played out, the unusual order was easier to understand, even if it only made the match placement feel more contrived.