Episode 133: Declassified: Rumble Changes - The 1995 & 1996 Royal Rumble matches
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
1995 and 1996 are two drastically different years in the WWE's history. 95 having a thinner and much more youthful look and 96 having a more mature and seasoned roster. This is clearly evident at the Royal Rumble pay per view events in January 1995 and January 1996. Today's Declassified looks at how different those events were and how the cast of characters in both 30 man over the top rope rumble contests were drastically different.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, let's get it going right here right now. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Declassified. |
| 0:14.0 | And you're listening to the all-new Declassified here in a brand new year. |
| 0:18.0 | It's 2023. |
| 0:19.0 | Of course, every single week. If you didn't know by now, |
| 0:22.7 | my name is Chad. And we're going to go back in time and we're going to go look at that new generation |
| 0:27.9 | era surrounding all three of the promotions that were relevant during the mid-90s. Of course, |
| 0:35.2 | new generation declassified for the last couple of years, |
| 0:38.2 | just focusing on the WWF, but branching out a little bit over the next couple of months to see if |
| 0:43.8 | this is worth continuing broadcasting a show about the mid-90s and that era of wrestling, |
| 0:51.4 | because some of you took your eyes off the WWF. |
| 0:54.4 | You went to WCW. |
| 0:56.0 | You discovered ECW. |
| 0:58.0 | And it kind of changed the way a lot of us kind of viewed our wrestling. |
| 1:01.6 | So I'm going to take you on this journey today. |
| 1:04.8 | But I still have to stay in sort of the WWF mode as the Royal Rumble is upon us. |
| 1:11.3 | And to me, the Royal Rumble is the most exciting time of the year. |
| 1:16.5 | I always like the Royal Rumble more than even WrestleMania. |
| 1:19.6 | I don't know why. |
| 1:20.4 | It's just been something that I've always really enjoyed as the build to |
| 1:24.4 | WrestleMania, but most specifically the Royal Rumble. And of course, the new generation |
| 1:30.1 | years, the 93 through 97 years, we would get the 93, 94, 95, 96, and 97 rumbles. I've been |
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