20 Greatest WWE Royal Rumble Undercard Matches

19. The Steiner Brothers Vs. The Beverley Brothers (1993)

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Having only debuted at the very end of 1992, this marked a WWE showcase display for The Steiner Brothers, having crossed the divide from WCW after several years terrifying jobbers and main eventers alike with their risky and hard-hitting tag team assaults.

Bravely volunteering themselves as tackling dummies for the evening, The Beverley Brothers were perfect foil for the Michigan tandem, winding the crowd up in the heat section enough to make it extra satisfying when Rick and Scott separated heads from necks with their brutal array of clotheslines and suplexes.

Immediately adapting to the WWE formula tag match, after absorbing a brief beatdown, the Steiners ripped through Beau and Blake in a hot comeback sequence.

Rick first floored Beau with a brutal release German suplex, then peppered the Shaker Heights natives with his trademark Steinerlines, before leaving Beau again to take a wicked Frankensteiner from a particularly-jacked-up Scott.

As one of the first hurricanranas in company history (and certainly the most devastating up to that point), it completed a stirring debut for the duo, who would briefly dominate the tag team division later that year before curiously falling out of favour with management and returning to the independent scene before the end of 1994.

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