Ranking EVERY Royal Rumble WWE Championship Match From Worst To Best

11. Mankind Vs The Rock - 1999

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Unparalleled from a dramatic point of view but somewhat unpalatable in the cold light of further understanding of concussions in 2019, The Rock and Mankind's 1999 effort is a worthy war before 'The Great One' gets slap-happy with the steel chair.

Retellings of the encounter are more harrowing than Foley's Hell In A Cell anecdotes. That featured two jaw-dropping stunts - this featured 11 (five of them unplanned) brain-scrambling assaults.

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