10 Most Unwanted Records In WWE Royal Rumble History
8. Most Ineffectual Performance
Bob Holly: 39:35 and 0 eliminations (1996)
It’s tempting to label Santio Marella’s 2009 performance—zero eliminations from a record-setting one-second showing—as the most ineffectual in Rumble history. But which sounds worse: zero eliminations from a one-second stint, or zero eliminations from a mind-numbingly humdrum 30-minute stint?
In some ways, drawing a blank from a one-second outing is to be expected, whereas failing to pick up a single elimination from a lengthier spell is a serious underachievement.
We’ve seen a few names last over half an hour without accumulating a sole elimination. Finlay and Mike Knox weighed in with 32 fruitless minutes in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and Jerry Lawler put in a pedestrian 36 minutes in 1996.
Pipping them all to the post though is Bob Holly, also from 1996, who failed to muster up a single elimination despite being in the Rumble for 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
On a side note, Holly drew another pair of blanks in his next two Rumble appearances—in 2000 and 2001—before finally eliminating Daniel Puder in 2005 after a cumulative drought of more than an hour.