WWE Rewind: Royal Rumble 2000

The participants of the thirteenth Royal Rumble match.

The turn of the new millenium brought a whale of change to the fortunes of The Rock, as his popularity reached the peak after winning the Royal Rumble match in January 2000. Let us take a look at the thirteenth Royal Rumble match that took place on January 23, 2000 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.

Here are some important facts about this match:

• The Rock won his first Royal Rumble match by elimating Big Show.
• The Rock entered the match as entrant #24 – A number which has produced three winners so far.
• Test lasted the longest in this match, for about 26 minutes.
• Rikishi eliminated the most number of participants in this match – seven.
• Chris Jericho earned the ignominy of being the first Royal Rumble participant to be eliminated by a Diva. Jericho was eliminated by Chyna.

You can watch this historic Royal Rumble event in this video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=f61GZctAHoA

In case you haven’t watched them yet, relive the thrill of earlier Royal Rumble events at these links:

• Royal Rumble 1988
• Royal Rumble 1989
• Royal Rumble 1990
• Royal Rumble 1991
• Royal Rumble 1992
• Royal Rumble 1993
• Royal Rumble 1994
• Royal Rumble 1995
• Royal Rumble 1996
• Royal Rumble 1997
• Royal Rumble 1998
• Royal Rumble 1999