7 Things You Should Know About WWE Royal Rumble 1989

6. The "Super Posedown" Was Super Lame

The Ultimate Warrior had a long feud with Rick Rude from 1988 to 1990. Leading up to the 1989 Royal Rumble, "Ravishing" Rick Rude issued a challenge to The Ultimate Warrior for a Super Posedown. It was one of the biggest wastes of 15 minutes in PPV history. Warrior was the IC Champion at the time, so they probably should have just had an IC Title match. Why not? This was a PPV event. Using a PPV to build to another match is the wrong way of looking at things. This kind of angle should have been done on a TV show like Superstars or some other show. They did have a match at WrestleMania 5, but they still could have got there by ending this match in a DQ. Anything would have been better than that posedown. We know that Vince McMahon has always been a bodybuilding fan, but that doesn't mean WWE fans really care about a couple of guys posing in the ring. We would rather see a wrestling match. At least with a match the fans can actually react to things that we're used to. It's not like that with a couple of guys posing. The whole point of the Super Posedown was to add heat to their storylines. After nearly 15 minutes of this snoozefest, Warrior was posing to the cheers of the fans during a "muscular montage" of all things, Rude was upset about it and attacked Warrior with a steel bar. Warrior was down for about a minute, then he attacked the officials trying to help him and ran up the ramp without selling the beating. As an angle it was fine, but it took 15 minutes of boredom to get to that point. They could have accomplished the same thing by having a match and doing the attack after a loss or after a DQ finish. What a waste of time this was.