4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2018
⏱️ 122 minutes
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0:00.0 | Alright Bruce, it's time for what happened when the world wrestling federation ran the |
0:07.0 | 1988 Royal Rumble. I got to tell you Bruce |
0:10.3 | I've wanted to talk about this for a long time and we're gonna do something a little different |
0:14.1 | 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 |
0:21.8 | And just a little bit we're gonna talk about the event for a while |
0:24.7 | But eventually we're gonna throw it to the WWE Network and we want to watch this original |
0:30.0 | Royal Rumble match with you. We're gonna watch the whole show just the actual match |
0:35.1 | Bruce I guess we should start at the beginning this thing goes down on January 24th |
0:40.5 | 1988 from cops, Kyle, see him in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and the attendance is a sellout around 18,000 folks |
0:48.5 | Of course we remember this is during the jockeying for position with Jim Crockett promotions |
0:53.7 | So this is actually aired on the USA Network for free |
0:58.0 | Of course we know that all the following Royal Rumbles are gonna be pay-per-views |
1:01.7 | But this is a network special and it gets a huge 8.2 rating |
1:07.2 | We're gonna talk about all the rumor and in-you-indo |
1:10.6 | But this is actually one of the first shows you put together for Vince McMahon, right? |
1:15.6 | This was the first |
1:18.6 | Live television show that I put together |
1:22.2 | Help write the Survivor series and |
1:26.0 | Thanksgiving in 1987, but this was the first time that was actually programming a live television show with live breaks in and everything and |
1:34.9 | It was kind of a daunting challenge because I was just thrown out there to do it and never had really done it before |
1:41.7 | But I think it turned out all right. I would say so when you guys have a sellout like this |
1:50.7 | 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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