7 Things You Should Know About WWE Royal Rumble 1988

3. It Was The Biggest Win Of "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan's Career

"Hacksaw" Jim Duggan is a WWE Hall of Famer, but if you watched his whole career in WWE then you know that he wasn't always pushed to be a big deal. He was really good in Mid-South Wrestling before WWE. No denying that. However, in WWE he was booked in the midcard for much of his career and mostly as a cheesy, feel good type of babyface. He won zero titles in his WWE career. Considering he could always get a reaction from the fans, he probably could have been a tag team champion if he was paired up with somebody or maybe held a midcard title. Instead, it never happened. When looking at his WWE career, his victory in the first Royal Rumble match is the greatest thing that he did. The only other title he held was "King of the WWF" in 1989, but that wasn't an official title that meant anything. Duggan was inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame in 2011. That happened because he was a long time employee that everybody liked and it's why people really shouldn't get worked up over who is or isn't in WWE's Hall of Fame. It's a backstage popularity contest more than anything.