Royal Rumble 1989

[6.0] "Fairly standard royal rumble. Jannetty had the best elimination but they did have quite a few bad eliminations. Had bigger stars in this rumble and more storylines like the start of the Mega Power's explosion in this rumble. Weird choice to have Studd winning the Rumble and only be a special guest ref at Mania."

[3.0] "Match is a bit over an hour. There's 10-15 minutes of this which are good, the rest is just boring, aimless brawling with nothing interesting happening."

[6.0] "A moderate Rumble, though certainly better than last year. The first half of this was fantastic with some memorable spots that are still remembered to this day. Unfortunately, after Hogan was eliminated, it all went downhill from there. The crowd was scarily dead, and nothing worthwhile was happening at all. The closing stretch, while good, doesn't justify the shitty second half. I will say though, that it at least helped build up some WM matches, which is always a good thing. No idea why Big John Studd went over as he wasn't even in the WrestleMania card in the end, and the obvious better winner was right there in Ted DiBiase. A pretty average Rumble overall, with the Hogan/Savage drama being the clear highlight of the whole thing."

[9.0] "Great Rumble, as most Rumbles are but I do like this one in particular. I love Andre vs. Demolition at the start, the whole angle with Jake and Andre continuing, the hot conflict between Hogan and Savage, DiBiase buying his way to the end, so much good stuff in here."