The Royal Rumble Pool was a ton of fun, but it didn’t exactly turn out as I had hoped. Why not? Take a look at the much vaunted “Team Darkside”, and then compare it to that of my competitors.
The winner: Benson’s Brigade (along with the order in which the wrestler emerged):
2 – Goldust
13 – Christian
16 – Godfather
22 – Triple H
25 – Mr. Perfect
29 – RVD
First Runner Up: Larry’s Wooriors
4 – Bradshaw
8 – Undertaker
12 – Scotty Too Hotty
18 – Saturn
23 – Hurricane
26 – Kurt Angle
The Losers:
Team Darkside:
6 – Al Snow
10 – Jeff Hardy
17 – Albert
21 – Test
24 – Faarooq
27 – The Big Show
The Enraged Puffins
1 – Rikishi
3 – Bossman
7 – Billy
11 – Maven
19 – Steve Austin
30 – Booker T
Jeff’s Jobbers
5 – Lance Storm
9 – Matt Hardy
14 – DDP
15 – Chucky
20 – Val Venis
28 – Kane
Order of Entrance:
1 Rikishi, 2 Goldust, 3 Bossman, 4 Bradshaw, 5 Lance Storm, 6 Al Snow, 7 Billy, 8 Undertaker, 9 Matt Hardy, 10 Jeff Hardy, 11 Maven, 12 Scotty 2 Hotty, 13 Christian, 14 DDP, 15 Chucky, 16 Godfather, 17 Albert, 18 Saturn, 19 Stone Cold Steve Austin, 20 Val Venis, 21 Test, 22 HHH, 23 Hurricane, 24 Faarooq, 25 Mr. Perfect, 26 Kurt Angle, 27 The Big Show, 28 Kane, 29 RVD, 30 Booker T.
Elimination:
1 Bossman, 2 Lance Storm, 3 Bradshaw, 4 Goldust, 5 Al Snow, 6 Rikishi, 7 Billy, 8 Jeff, 9 Matt, 10 Undertaker (thrown out by Maven!), 11 Scotty 2 Hotty, 12 DDP (who’s exit wasn’t even shown on the monitors because the cameras were too busy catching Godfather’s 24 minute, 3 ho-train entrance), 13 Albert, 14 Godfather, 15 Christian, 16 Chucky, 17 Saturn, 18 Val Venis, 19 Test, 20 Hurricane, 21 Faarooq, 22 The Big Show, 23 Kane, 24 RVD, 25 Booker T, 26 Stone Cold Steve Austin, 27 Mr. Perfect, 28 Kurt Angle. The winner: Triple H.
It’s important to note that there was some chicanery going on in that the reason there were 30 entrants, but ony 28 exits is because technically Maven was never eliminated. Undertaker went back into the ring and hurled Maven out over the top rope and then took him to school in the back before munching on some popcorn to seal Maven’s fate. In my humble opinion, the real loser here is Curtis who had the $20.00 pot STOLEN out from under his nose! Very weak indeed.