12 Wrestlers Who Had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS Being In WWE Royal Rumble
4. Dick Murdoch (1995)
Dick Murdoch was a hugely well known wrestler if not a hugely well known WWE Superstar when he appeared as an out-of-time outlier in the most New Generation-heavy Royal Rumble of all time in 1995.
The market leader could barely lay claim to leading the market at the time, and if it did, the victory was pyrrhic thanks to the commercial state of North American wrestling writ large. With a lack of funds and interest came a profound lack of full-timers for the annual battle royal. Vince McMahon's solution was to shave the intervals down to a minute and put Shawn Michaels and Davey Boy Smith out there for the duration. With only select exceptions, this allowed for nearly all of the remaining 28 to not really matter that much, instead filling time battling with the two iron men and each other before taking tumbles in short order.
For that purpose, Murdoch was as available as anybody else, but men of his ilk weren't too far from getting less and less bookings as even pro wrestling caught up with pop culture in the 1990s. "His ilk" in this case? Being hate-filled and racist, and - per multiple wrestler accounts - a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Alas, wrestling was still mostly just wrestling in more barren times, and he took a break from his spots in NWA Dallas and IWA and WAR in Japan for this and a few select TV taping spots in Stamford.