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Royal Rumble Stats

Fun Facts

Everything here is derived from the match data, so none of it can go stale as years are added.

The busiest minute

Reconstructed, not recorded. The rank is dependable; the seconds are an estimate.

9eliminations

The 1995 men's Rumble put 9 wrestlers out inside a single minute. No other match in the archive has managed more than 7. Reconstructed from the solved clock, so read it as the outlier it is rather than to the second. Annual Royal Rumbles only.

The triple crown

5 matches where one wrestler won it, lasted longest and eliminated the most people. Ties count: several matches have two elimination leaders. Annual Royal Rumbles only.

  1. Shawn Michaels 1995 men's
  2. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin 1997 men's
  3. Chris Benoit 2004 men's
  4. Rey Mysterio 2006 men's
  5. Rhea Ripley 2023 women's

The winner rarely lasts longest

12of 48 matches

Winning a Royal Rumble mostly is not a matter of outlasting or outworking the field. The winner also led the match on eliminations 14 times, and only 5 did both — the triple crown. In the other 36, somebody else lasted longer than the person who won. Annual Royal Rumbles only.

Draws that have never won

7entry numbers

Of the numbers drawn at least ten times, these have never produced a winner: 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 and 21.

Most appearances without a win

The people who have turned up most often and never taken it. Annual Royal Rumbles only.

  1. Kane 20 appearances 1996 to 2021
  2. The Miz 17 appearances 2007 to 2026
  3. Kofi Kingston 15 appearances 2009 to 2024
  4. Dolph Ziggler 14 appearances 2009 to 2022
  5. Big Show 12 appearances 2000 to 2017
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  1. Goldust 12 appearances 1997 to 2018
  2. Chris Jericho 10 appearances 2000 to 2017
  3. Rikishi 10 appearances 1993 to 2004
  4. Shelton Benjamin 10 appearances 2003 to 2020

One and done

37%of everyone

177 of the 477 people who have ever been in a Royal Rumble entered exactly once.

The one with two winners

1994 men's

Every other Royal Rumble has had exactly one winner. This one ended with both men over the top rope at the same time, and both were credited — which is why winners are stored as a list throughout this site.

One man, three draws

3entries, one Rumble

Mick Foley drew numbers 1, 16 and 28 in the 1998 men's Rumble, billed as Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love — three entrants on the card, one person in the ring. It is the only time anybody has entered the same Rumble more than once. Every statistic on this site counts him once as a person and three times as an entry, which is the distinction the archive is built on.

It took more than one

138shared eliminations

One elimination in every 10 was credited to more than one wrestler — 138 of 1,371 in all. The biggest took 9, every one of them credited with putting Viscera out in the 2007 men's Rumble. It is why the career elimination counts add up to more than the number of people thrown out.