Alright Bruce, it's time for what happened when the world wrestling federation ran the

1988 Royal Rumble. I got to tell you Bruce

I've wanted to talk about this for a long time and we're gonna do something a little different

We're actually gonna encourage you to pull this up on the WWE Network and we're gonna watch the Royal Rumble match with you here

And just a little bit we're gonna talk about the event for a while

But eventually we're gonna throw it to the WWE Network and we want to watch this original

Royal Rumble match with you. We're gonna watch the whole show just the actual match

Bruce I guess we should start at the beginning this thing goes down on January 24th

1988 from cops, Kyle, see him in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the attendance is a sellout around 18,000 folks

Of course we remember this is during the jockeying for position with Jim Crockett promotions

So this is actually aired on the USA Network for free

Of course we know that all the following Royal Rumbles are gonna be pay-per-views

But this is a network special and it gets a huge 8.2 rating

We're gonna talk about all the rumor and in-you-indo

But this is actually one of the first shows you put together for Vince McMahon, right?

This was the first

Live television show that I put together

Help write the Survivor series and

Thanksgiving in 1987, but this was the first time that was actually programming a live television show with live breaks in and everything and

It was kind of a daunting challenge because I was just thrown out there to do it and never had really done it before

But I think it turned out all right. I would say so when you guys have a sellout like this

I mean this is when the business is arguably as hot as it's ever been for the company or early 1988, right?

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