30 Amazing Stats and Facts From 30 Years of the WWE Royal Rumble

13: Money In The Rumble

In 2013, Dolph Ziggler became the first WWE Superstar to enter the Royal Rumble while holding the Money In The Bank briefcase.

Realistically, if Ziggler had ended up winning the 2013 Royal Rumble, he would have had two guaranteed shots at the WWE title.

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12: The Royal Rumble match didn’t headline the first Rumble event

Surprisingly, the Royal Rumble match has not headlined every Royal Rumble event, not even after it became its own PPV.

The most glaring instances of this are the first Rumble special itself which was headlined by a 2-out-of-3-falls tag-team match between The Islanders and The Stallions, as if anyone remembers that.