10 Longest WWE Royal Rumble Performances With ZERO Eliminations

Lasted 39:35.

For some ungodly reason, the 1996 Royal Rumble match features twice(!) on this list - and no, this instance also isn't for a marquee entrant.

Bob Holly, at the time still working his humdrum Sparky Plugg character because it was the nineties and everyone needed a gimmick, lasted thirty-nine minutes and thirty-five seconds, all without a single elimination. He entered fifth and would be tossed out by the Ringmaster, who was still a few months away from becoming ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin.

There’s very little else to add here. The 1996 Rumble was God-awful and Bob Holly wasn’t much better off. Why, of all people, he was chosen to spend a prolonged period of time in the match is anyone’s guess. Vince McMahon wasn’t exactly spoilt for choice in January 1996, but come on - this was very obviously a luck-of-the-draw situation for Holly, McMahon having thrown a dart towards a dartboard adorned with various roster members' faces and landing on Holly's.

Vince McMahon was, of course, the only sane - debatable in itself - human being who actively enjoyed the Sparky Plugg character, so much so that on commentary, he exclaimed “Start your engines”.

Thirty-nine-and-a-half minutes of this garbage.