1994 Royal Rumble
Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Men’s Royal Rumble 1994
Winners
Lex Luger
entered at number 23
Bret Hart
entered at number 27
- Match time
- 55:04
- Entrants
- 30
- Most eliminations
- 7 Diesel
- Longest time in match
- 30:12 Bam Bam Bigelow
- 1 Scott Steiner
- 2 Samu
- 3 Rick Steiner
- 4 Kwang
- 5 Owen Hart
- 6 Bart Gunn
- 7 Diesel
- 8 Bob Backlund
- 9 Billy Gunn
- 10 Virgil
- 11 Randy Savage
- 12 Jeff Jarrett
- 13 Crush
- 14 Doink the Clown
- 15 Bam Bam Bigelow
- 16 Mabel
- 17 Thurman "Sparky" Plugg
- 18 Shawn Michaels
- 19 Mo
- 20 Greg Valentine
- 21 Tatanka
- 22 The Great Kabuki
- 23 Lex Luger
- 24 Genichiro Tenryu
- 25 Bastion Booger
- 26 Rick Martel
- 27 Bret Hart
- 28 Fatu
- 29 Marty Jannetty
- 30 Adam Bomb
The last five draws are 26 to 30 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.
What it led to
Threads that start in this match and pay off later. Editorial rather than computed — each one cites where it comes from.
Two winners, two title shots, decided by a coin toss
Bret Hart and Lex Luger hit the floor together and both were declared winners. WWF President Jack Tunney gave each a separate championship match at WrestleMania X, with a coin toss deciding the order.
WrestleMania X 57 days later
Bret Hart won the WWF Championship in the night's second title match
Source: Wikipedia, retrieved 7 August 2026
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 95-second interval. Times in match are as published.
Sources: wikipedia (primary), darrenswinloss