Of the six men who have won multiple Royal Rumbles, only one has a gap of more than a decade. Triple H made history Sunday when he won the 2016 Rumble, an astonishing 14 years after his first Rumble victory. That 2002 win capped a successful return from a torn quadriceps the previous year, and Helmsley would go on to headline WrestleMania X8 against Chris Jericho for the WWF Undisputed Championship, which he would capture. Its doubtful that anyone will top Triple Hs new record. Batista is in second place with a nine-year gap between his 2005 and 2014 wins. Of all the Rumble winners, the only hypothetical situations to break Triple Hs record would be the Rock (2000) winning the 2017 Rumble, Brock Lesnar (2003) winning the 2018 Rumble or Rey Mysterio (2006) winning the 2020 Rumble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5HwVrePdA In other words, this might be a Rumble record that stands for a long time.
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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
