Ranking EVERY WWE Royal Rumble Match From Worst To Best

33. 1989

Cody Rhodes
WWE.com

A marginally better outing than the maiden one a year earlier, this first pay-per-view offering at least featured all the major names, though again didn't particularly set a lot of stakes in the result.

The contest covered the bubbling-under explosion of the Mega Powers, a cute Demolition #1/#2 opening two minutes and the corrupt conspiring of Ted Dibiase and Slick to get a better number, but little else helped the match beyond bang average status.

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