1988 Royal Rumble
Men's Royal Rumble 1988
- Winner
- Jim Duggan (entry #13)
- Match time
- 33:00
- Entrants
- 20
- Most eliminations
- 5 — One Man Gang
- Longest time in match
- 25:42 — Bret Hart
- Venue
- Copps Coliseum
| # | Entrant | Entered | Eliminated | Time in match | Placement | Eliminations | Eliminated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bret Hart | 0:00 | 25:42 | 25:42 | 13 | 1 | Don Muraco |
| 2 | Tito Santana | 0:00 | 10:41 | 10:41 | 19 | 0 | Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart |
| 3 | Butch Reed | 1:40 | 4:58 | 3:18 | 20 | 0 | Jake Roberts |
| 4 | Jim Neidhart | 3:19 | 22:25 | 19:06 | 15 | 1 | Hillbilly Jim |
| 5 | Jake Roberts | 4:59 | 26:51 | 21:52 | 11 | 2 | One Man Gang |
| 6 | Harley Race | 6:39 | 16:42 | 10:03 | 17 | 0 | Don Muraco |
| 7 | Jim Brunzell | 8:19 | 20:25 | 12:06 | 16 | 1 | Nikolai Volkoff |
| 8 | Sam Houston | 9:58 | 24:37 | 14:39 | 14 | 0 | Ron Bass |
| 9 | Danny Davis | 11:38 | 29:29 | 17:51 | 8 | 0 | Jim Duggan |
| 10 | Boris Zhukov | 13:18 | 15:51 | 2:33 | 18 | 0 | Jake Roberts, Jim Brunzell |
| 11 | Don Muraco | 14:58 | 31:14 | 16:16 | 4 | 3 | Dino Bravo, One Man Gang |
| 12 | Nikolai Volkoff | 16:37 | 28:17 | 11:40 | 10 | 1 | Jim Duggan |
| 13 | Jim Duggan (winner) | 18:17 | — | 14:43 | 1 | 3 | — |
| 14 | Ron Bass | 19:57 | 30:11 | 10:14 | 5 | 2 | Don Muraco |
| 15 | B. Brian Blair | 21:36 | 27:26 | 5:50 | 12 | 0 | One Man Gang |
| 16 | Hillbilly Jim | 23:16 | 29:11 | 5:55 | 9 | 1 | One Man Gang |
| 17 | Dino Bravo | 24:56 | 33:08 | 8:12 | 3 | 2 | One Man Gang |
| 18 | Ultimate Warrior | 26:36 | 30:27 | 3:51 | 7 | 0 | Dino Bravo |
| 19 | One Man Gang | 28:15 | 35:05 | 6:50 | 2 | 5 | Jim Duggan |
| 20 | Junkyard Dog | 29:55 | 32:03 | 2:08 | 6 | 0 | Ron Bass |
Entry and elimination times are derived, not recorded: no source publishes them. They are solved from entry order, published times in match and the recorded elimination order, around a nominal 100-second interval. Times in match are as published.
Sources: wikipedia (primary), darrenswinloss, prowrestlinghistory