Watching the Royal Rumble today, its hard to believe that such creative teased eliminations werent the norm a decade ago. The game to see what kind of crazy ways to avoid getting eliminated really got kick-started in 2011 with John Morrison. During the Rumble, William Regal knocked Morrison off the ring apron all the way to the barricade but Morrison somehow stuck to the barricade wall and managed to keep his feet from touching the floor. He then climbed onto the wall, tight-roped along it and jumped to the ring steps to stay in the match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v6A2x01yu4 It was an extremely clever way to exploit the Rumbles both feet must touch the floor rule beyond Shawn Michaels one-foot hot potato dance in 1995. Today, fans look forward to seeing what innovative spot someone is going to break out to avoid elimination.
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.
