Longevity in the Royal Rumble is part luck of the draw, part flat-out luck. If you draw a low number and manage to hang around until the end of the match, then youre going to log a good, lengthy time. In 28 Royal Rumbles, five men have logged more than an hour in the match, with three of them winning: Ric Flair (60:02 in 1992), Chris Benoit (61:31 in 2004) and Rey Mysterio (62:12 in 2006) for the record. Bob Backlund (61:10 in 1993) and Triple H (60:09 in 2006) have lasted an hour, but ultimately were knocked out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DY8XNZu1M If youre adding up the cumulative time spent in the Rumble, then Triple H has that record sewn up, logging three hours, 51 minutes in his eight Rumbles. The next closest active wrestler, Kane, is 31 minutes behind Helmsley.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
