WWE Royal Rumble 1992: Stabbings, Drug Busts & Ric Flair’s World Title Win

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

The 1992 WWE Royal Rumble wasn’t just about Ric Flair’s legendary World Title win—it was chaos behind the curtain. From shocking stabbings and wild drug stories to Flair’s career-defining moment, Sean Mooney pulls back the curtain on one of wrestling’s most infamous nights. You’ve never heard the full story like this before.

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.6	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:34.7	It's the golden age on top of new wing.
0:38.3	Larger than life of fantasy fantasy Snap in the Ringfield history
0:40.3	Welcome to the Golden
0:43.3	W.
0:44.3	From stabbings to rewriting history
0:48.3	to tears in my eyes
0:50.3	It's the Roy Rumble,
0:51.3	1992, right here on the Golden Hour, Sean Mooney. How are you doing today?
0:56.2	Woo! Oh, I wonder why you would say that. Woo! It's a lot of wooing going on in this Royal Rumble.
1:04.6	And for good reason, it happened to be, I think, the best Royal Rumble ever.
1:12.2	And as we'll get into it, but I think we already gave away the hero of the day, Rick Flair, in this,
1:20.4	and what he ended up doing this day in Albany.
1:23.8	It is one of the greatest Royal Rumbles of all time.
1:27.0	And that was my first question to you
1:28.3	and you kind of answered it where the argument has been going on
1:31.7	since this event. Is the 1992
1:34.1	the Royal Rumble, the greatest Royal Rumble of all time?
1:38.1	Now, why do you think it's the greatest one though?
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