Last year I started the #RumbleRetro hashtag as I went back and re-watched each Rumble match on my way to attending my first ever. This year ahead of Royal Rumble 2018, I'm watching the 2017 Rumble match on the Network for the first time as well. We will repost these articles ahead of each Royal Rumble PPV moving forward.
1988 Through 1997: HBK Dominates, Hogan Is A Baby, Flair Shines
1998 Through 2007: Attitude Era To PG Era
2008-2016: Names From The Past Emerge, Surprises, Failures, More!
Lost Royal Rumble Matches: Smackdown, MSG 1994, Tag Team, Minis, Corporation
2017
I have a deadline, so here's my tweets for #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Cass was kind of an untraditional #1 entry #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
I loved that boot to a flying Jericho #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Kalisto at number 3, anticlimactic. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
So much of this is new to me. I've never heard the commentary #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Cass, Mojo, Kalisto, Jericho. One of these things is not like the other. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Was Jack Gallagher a "surprise?" #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
The umbrella antics were great #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
There were so many better selections to win last year's Andre the Giant Battle Royal. Mark Henry as a swan song was one of those #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
What a great elimination of Gallagher by Henry #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaun kills Mojo #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Braun clears the ring and a stoked @Germanator84 is front and center for the Mark Henry face off #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
I forgot that Zayn had feuded with Strowman #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
It took Big Show a full minute to get to the ring #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
After Big Show, it was almost a full three minutes before the next entrant, too. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Television didn't do Tye Dillinger's pop justice #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
I miss Ellsworth. Especially Ellsworth and Carmella. They were so fun. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Oh my god, Strowman killed Ellsworth. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Corbin eliminating Strowman got a big pop, but what a waste that ended up being. Amazing how much they fumbled Strowman in the Rumble and Battle Royal #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
That is an underrated Kofi save spot. Woah. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Broken Nose Rusev! #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Why aren't New Day teaming up and tossing everyone one by one?! There's three of them. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
One of Bray Wyatt's best entrances, but I miss the clapping. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Lmao, of course New Day and The Bar all eliminated at the same time. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Dolph Ziggler beating everyone's ass with a vest on #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
It's the annual "pretend the Wyatt Family is on the same page but they're not" spot #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Orton in the Wyatt Family was maybe the most I've been interested in him since the Legend Killer era. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Ol' Brockyboy Lesnar here to toss some fools out. This one isn't breaking the record for most entrants in the ring at once. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
………..Oh………it's Enzo. Oh boy. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Corey Graves' elation that Enzo is about to get eaten by Brock Lesnar is phenomenal #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Goldberg was so, so, so over. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Goldberg eliminating Lesnar blew that crowd apart. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
This was a loaded Rumble. Taker explodes the crowd too #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Just weird to think Taker's last match could have been two months later and he's taking stiff ass spears from Goldberg. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
"The Big Dog is gonna hunt." GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN, Cole #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Roman Reigns eliminating Undertaker set the stage for the typically doody finish and winner being okay. #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Jericho's elimination was fun #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Hahahah Wyatt looked so eager for that elimination #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
Just a wonderful counter from a spear into an RKO and the crowd were like "YEAH! NOT REIGNS!" #RumbleRetro 17
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 25, 2018
