Mysterio wins the match! Randy Orton stomps away at Scott Steiner. Van Dam takes Jericho down and then goes after Nunzio, his old mate from ECW. ( Log Out /  It was Benoit that started the match. Helmsley hits a number of right hands but Michaels takes him down a applies a figure four. Jericho has a 3-2 record at Royal Rumble events. Kurt attempts a German suplex on Big Show but fails. 10 WWE Wrestlers Who Are Dating The Competition, The Problem With Keith Lee That No One Wants To Talk About, 10 WWE Stars Who Have Gone Backwards In 2020, 10 Craziest Things Vince McMahon Has Ever Said To Wrestlers, 10 Things You Didn't Know About Tessa Blanchard, Major Spoilers On WWE's Plans For Adam Cole & Undisputed Era, 10 Biggest Unsung Heroes Of WWE's Current Era, 10 Ups & 1 Down From AEW Dynamite (Sep 30), Batista Claims WWE Turned Down Free Entrance Music From Wu-Tang Clan's RZA. Show is the current United States Champion. Lesnar goes back to the bear hug. Holly fights out of it and hits a big clothesline and dropkick on Lesnar. Triple H will be defending his World Heavyweight Championship against his old friend Shawn Michaels after the two battled to a draw on Raw a few weeks ago. A Brock vs. Benoit match has certainly been hinted at on Smackdown. Since then, Miller did appear in the 2008 film “The Wrestler” with Mickey Rourke, Marissa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, and Ron “The Truth/K-Kwik/R-Truth” Killings. Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton interrupt the interview celebrating their win over the Dudley Boyz. Nunzio is just sat at ringside, not entering the ring. Raws Intercontinental Champion and Benoit is a big way to kick off this match. It’s arguably the most infamous name in the history of the company due to the double murder suicide that occurred in the summer of 2007. The referee counts and both men stay down for the 10 count! Four titles were on the line at 2004's Royal Rumble event, but none changed hands. #25 is Chris Jericho. Goldberg gets up to his feet and from behind Kurt Angle eliminates Goldberg! #17 is Shelton Benjamin as Chris Benoit eliminates A-Train. There are 8 men remaining. Jim Ross throws down to Michael Cole and Tazz at ringside. John Cena? Benoit has wrestled at 2 Royal Rumble events before and he’s yet to win a match. Good match between these two. When the buzzer for Spike Dudley went off, it initially began with an Undertaker gong. The average superstar survival time for the 2004 Royal Rumble match was 9m 19s and the median survival time was 5m 28s. Jamie Noble beat Tajiri to become number one contender and since then Noble has taken advantage of his (now) blind girlfriend Nidia, blaming Rey Mysterio for the abuse. Jamie Noble applies a chinlock and then changes it into an abdominal stretch. He goes for a chokeslam on Benoit but Benoit counters it into a crippler crossface. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. This is his second Royal Rumble match. I can see him feuding with the likes of Matt Morgan and A-Train going forward. Orton goes to work on Mark Henry but doesn’t have much success. Batista comes out with a microphone and calls the Dudley Boyz losers which causes the challengers to attack Evolution in the aisle. No sign of Test yet so his music stops. Benjamin is making his second Royal Rumble appearance. Chavo gets out of it and cops Eddie. Then a backstage segment aired where Test was presumably taken out by someone, and Steve Austin ordered that mystery assailant to take Test’s spot in the match. But I counted the entire Undertaker tease as part of Spike’s entrance time. Good stuff from Cena and Van Dam here.

This match was a little stop/start, it could have been better. Brock Lesnar takes on Hardcore Holly for the WWE Championship. The 2004 Royal Rumble match lasted 1 hour, 1 minute, and 31 seconds (1h 01m 31s).

6.Ernest “The Cat” Miller would also be gone from WWE just before WrestleMania 20. He hits a flying cross body on Matt Hardy and then attempts a cross body on Morgan but Matt Morgan catches The Hurricane and throws him out to eliminate The Hurricane from the match. Eddie ties Chavo Sr to the bottom rope by his tie and then goes back to laying into Chavo who is now bleeding. Could he go the whole way and win the match tonight? This final segment of the 2004 Royal Rumble match lasted 13m 22s, and at that point Chris Benoit emerged as the winner of the match. Told you the #3 spot never last long. The #3 spot always does awful. brands.. As has been customary since 1993, the Royal Rumble match …

There were more than 7 men in the ring for a total time of just 3m 47s, which is 6.2% of the match. The 2004 Royal Rumble Match. Overall Rating: 55.8/100 (ranked joint 98th out of 160), Match Of The Night: The 2004 Royal Rumble match ... Royal Rumble Match. Jamie hits a big kick to the back of Rey. Kane? WWE Royal Rumble 2004 Pay Per View.

7 wrestlers lasted under one minute, and 10 wrestlers lasted less than 2 minutes. Rey Mysterio is still looking for his first PPV victory, 18 months into his WWE career. Brock will be going one of two ways for Wrestlemania. He gets some offense in. Lesnar then drops Holly on the top rope and back in the ring he gets Hardcore up for the F5, hitting the finisher and getting the win! They take Big Show down and take it in turns to hit big moves. The four men slug it out around the ring until the Dudley Boyz set up a table in the ring. Seen on Sky News; featured in The Guardian, NY Times, The Independent and more. Booker T eliminates Scott Steiner. #14 is Rikishi who actually has a 0-9 record at Royal Rumble events as Rikishi, The Sultan and Fatu.

There’s only Chris Benoit, Randy Orton and Rhyno in the ring but they’re joined by Matt Hardy. It’s a first two on two match between these two teams on pay per view although last month at Armageddon, Flair and Batista beat The Dudleyz at the end of tag team turmoil to win the tag team championships. Didn’t feel like a PPV match. Big Show and Nunzio then double team Cena. You can also send an email to [email protected] with any questions or comments as well. Bischoff gives some stick to Heyman who then makes his way to the ring! #29 is Rob Van Dam who is making his third Royal Rumble appearance. The winner gets a shot at their brands champion and there are plenty of good contenders this year. #10 is The Hurricane who makes his second Royal Rumble appearance.

Michaels just keeps getting back up to his feet and Triple H keeps on smashing him back down to the mat. Shawn Michaels has had his issues with Chris Jericho, Randy Orton and Batista. The psychology was there anyway. Dupree goes after Matt Hardy and suplexes him onto the apron before hitting Hardy with a dropkick and eliminating him from the match. 4.We won’t be seeing Test on WWE PPV again until Survivor Series 2006. Orton then hits Foley with a low blow and leaves. Royal Rumble 2004 . This is definitely the biggest PPV match in the career of Hardcore Holly. The World Tag Team Championships will also be on the line tonight as Ric Flair and Batista defend against The Dudley Boyz. Event. Undertakers gongs are heard which freaks out Kane and then Booker T eliminates Kane!

Between Buzzers 16 and 17, Ernest Miller received a special ring introduction and then performed a dance routine in the ring while Benoit and Orton were temporarily incapacitated. 7 men left. Josh Mathews is backstage with Chris Benoit who is the number 1 entrant in the Royal Rumble match. Randy Orton? ( Log Out /  I love that Benoit and Orton started the match off, two of the big favourites for me. Morgan then actually saves Scott Steiner from being eliminated. The 2004 Royal Rumble match lasted 1 hour, 1 minute, and 31 seconds (1h 01m 31s). Unless you count the pre-show match before No Way Out last year but I don’t. The final entrant (Goldberg) entered the match to achieve a max depth of 10 wrestlers, which lasted for 0m 28s. Besides those four men, you could look at John Cena who has been given a lot of air time and a face turn, Chris Jericho, Mark Henry, Big Show or even Kane.

Unlucky #13 is The Undertaker? Spike actually has a 1-0 record at Royal Rumble events.

There’s rumours that he was going to feud with Goldust but Goldust has now left the company. Here is the full list of survival times for all 30 superstars: The bottom 8 wrestlers on the list did not survive long enough to make it to the next buzzer. Angle hits an Angle slam on Big Show and then an Angle slam on Benoit!

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5.While the Benoit angle dominated the Rumble match, there were still other good stories intertwined, mainly the continuation of the Orton/Foley feud and Goldberg’s quest for victory. John Cena’s entrance time was extended a bit because he spent some time figuring out how he should deal with Nunzio. Randy Orton comes from behind and eliminates The Cat.

Michaels goes up top and flies up with a big elbow drop. Haas goes after Christian but Jericho saves his partner. Brock Lesnar then appears and hits a big F5 on Goldberg! Mysterio was eventually reinserted into the main event at WrestleMania and went on to win the World Championship match. This is a first singles match between these two men on PPV. Benoit hits Tajiri with two big German suplexes. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Lots of stopping and starting in this match. The other title set to be defended tonight will be the Cruiserweight Championship. Shawn hits his trademark flying forearm and then nips back up. That's all you need to know about the timing of the 2004 Royal Rumble match. We see Triple H and Shawn Michaels getting ready for their match before a video package showing the history between them. Royal Rumble 2004 was the seventeenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Brock Lesnar beat Hardcore Holly, a career midcarder, in 6 and a half minutes. Matt Morgan nearly eliminates Matt Hardy and Benoit and Rhyno go at it in the opposite corner. Spike Dudley was chokeslammed onto the entrance ramp by Kane on his way to the ring, and he never recovered in time to enter the ring. Michaels hits more big right hands, an inverted atomic drop and another right hand.