9 Obscure WWE Royal Rumble Statistics
Bet'cha didn't know these ones!
Creating this list took up a lot of time. Every Royal Rumble match was combed through, copied and pasted onto a spreadsheet, before factoring in a variety of different spreadsheets to focus on different statistics. Thankfully, it was a labour of love - putting this information together was fascinating.
Of course, there were the basics, like total eliminations and total time spent in the match (which still took quite a while to calculate)...but we all know about those. Kane has entered the most Rumbles and has the most eliminations, Chris Jericho has the longest cumulative Rumble time, Roman Reigns has the most eliminations in a single Rumble, we've heard these ones a million times. So I went looking for the stats that next-to-nobody could know.
As a small note, I did not include the Women's nor the Greatest Royal Rumble in my statistics. The Women's Rumble was not included because there has only been one as of this writing, and meaningful statistics cannot be derived from just one collection of data. The Greatest Royal Rumble was not included because it turned out to be no more special than if a Rumble occurred on a random house show. So apologies to Daniel Bryan and Braun Strowman, but your individual Rumble records were not factored in.
So, before Strowman knocks down my door to give me these hands, let's get on with it -
9. Most Eliminations By A Superstar Who Only Entered One Rumble
Sid Justice (6 eliminations, 1992).
Believe it or not, Sid Justice only entered one Rumble in his career. Perhaps many might think otherwise because of how prominently he was featured.
Entering at Number 29, Sid went on an absolute rampage. In just 5 minutes and 55 seconds, he eliminated a total of six men, more than anyone else in the match. And the people he eliminated were no pushovers - he threw out The Warlord, Rick Martel, Sgt. Slaughter, Roddy Piper, Randy Savage, and even Hulk f***ing Hogan. Unfortunately, that last elimination would be his undoing, as the poor-sport Hogan latched onto his arm from the outside, allowing Ric Flair to sneak up from behind and eliminate him to win the match.
Sid never did get his second chance in the Rumble match, but he can hold his head up high knowing that his one go at it was a damn good one.