1988 Royal Rumble
Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Men’s Royal Rumble 1988
Winner
Jim Duggan
entered at number 13
- Match time
- 33:00
- Entrants
- 20
- Most eliminations
- 5 One Man Gang
- Longest time in match
- 25:42 Bret Hart
- 1 Bret Hart
- 2 Tito Santana
- 3 Butch Reed
- 4 Jim Neidhart
- 5 Jake Roberts
- 6 Harley Race
- 7 Jim Brunzell
- 8 Sam Houston
- 9 Danny Davis
- 10 Boris Zhukov
- 11 Don Muraco
- 12 Nikolai Volkoff
- 13 Jim Duggan
- 14 Ron Bass
- 15 B. Brian Blair
- 16 Hillbilly Jim
- 17 Dino Bravo
- 18 Ultimate Warrior
- 19 One Man Gang
- 20 Junkyard Dog
The last five draws are 16 to 20 in this match, and are marked in the chart above. They enter against a field that is already thinning, which is the long-standing argument that a late number is an advantage.
Bar positions are derived, not recorded. No source publishes entry and elimination timestamps; they are solved from entry order, the published times in match and the recorded elimination order. The ring-population curve below reads the same solved times. The times in the table below are as published.
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