20 Awesome WWE Royal Rumble Moments

5. The Mega Powers Self-Destruct (1989)

As mentioned before, when the announcers say it€™s €œevery man for himself€ in the Royal Rumble, they mean it. Case in point, the Mega Powers €“ Hulk Hogan and €œMacho Man€ Randy Savage €“ were a dominant force throughout much of 1988 into 1989, teaming up to battle Ted DiBiase and Andre the Giant (the Mega Bucks) at SummerSlam. It seemed like nothing could stop this duo. But at the 1989 Royal Rumble, Hogan dumped Bad News Brown and Savage simultaneously, sending Macho Man into overdrive. Savage, the WWF Champion at the time, jabbed his finger at Hogan while Miss Elizabeth tried to mediate. However, the cracks were there, and things would boil over two weeks ago, when Savage would turn on Hogan, setting up their WrestleMania V title match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fRCzuQH1mg As a wrestling fan, seeing two of the biggest babyface stars in WWF at the time have a public meltdown was tremendous and led to an epic Mania main event.
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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.