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Just How Long Was The Women’s Royal Rumble Match?

The women made history in their 2019 Royal Rumble Match!

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Becky Lynch WWE Royal Rumble

The Chairshot digs into history to see how the 2019 Women’s Royal Rumble match stacks up against other iterations of this classic contest.

Becky Lynch captured the 2019 Royal Rumble victory, and as we already know she will challenge WWE Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania. Her victory was a bit of a surprise, as many people picked Charlotte Flair to win (but expected Becky to find her way into the WrestleMania match as well).

Becky wasn’t even a part of the match, but entered as a replacement for Lana, who couldn’t make it to the ring after hurting her ankle earlier in the night, and being attacked by Nia Jax. But let’s not let our excitement over Becky winning cause us to miss something major–this Royal Rumble match made history!

Our own Greg DeMarco dug it, and it turns out the 72-minute long Women’s Royal Rumble match is the second longest in history, second only to the Greatest Royal Rumble. That match went 77 minutes, but had 50 entrants.

What does that mean? The women of WWE officially hold the record for the longest proper Royal Rumble in history! (Proper meaning 30-person). For comparison sake, the 2018 Women’s Royal Rumble is 17th all-time at 59 minutes. The 2011 Royal Rumble, which had 40 participants, clocked at 69 minutes.

Take a look at the Top 10 30-Person Royal Rumble Matches:

  • 2019 Women’s Royal Rumble (72 minutes)
  • 2003 Royal Rumble (69 minutes)
  • 1993 Royal Rumble (66 minutes)
  • 1989 Royal Rumble (65 minutes)
  • 1991 Royal Rumble (65 minutes)
  • 2018 Men’s Royal Rumble (65 minutes)
  • 1992 Royal Rumble (62 minutes)
  • 2006 Royal Rumble (62 minutes)
  • 2009 Royal Rumble (62 minutes)
  • 2017 Royal Rumble (62 minutes)

Do we need to give more props to WWE for giving the women 72 minutes–and the longest proper Royal Rumble match?


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Mitchell’s AEW Continental Classic Update! (11/27/23)

What a start to the tournament!

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Did your picks win points?

The AEW Continental Classic is underway, with almost everyone competing. Check in here if you haven’t seen the winners and losers of week 1!

Here are your Gold League standings!

  • Jon Moxley: 1-0, 3 points
  • Swerve Strickland: 1-0, 3 points
  • Jay White: 1-0, 3 points
  • Rush: 0-1, 0 points
  • Mark Briscoe: 0-1, 0 points.
  • Jay Lethal: 0-1, 0 points

 

Here are your Blue League standings!

  • Brody King: 1-0, 3 points
  • Claudio Castagnoli: 1-0, 3 points
  • Daniel Garcia: 0-1, 0 points
  • Eddie Kingston: 0-1, 0 points
  • Bryan Danielson: Yet to Compete
  • Andrade El Idolo: Yet to Compete

 

My Thoughts:

Nothing too crazy, nothing too wild, this tournament only just got started. The only disappointing point is that they could not get Bryan “cleared to compete” Saturday night. Not sure how much of that is shoot given the bad eye, but this was kinda the problem of wanting him in the tournament over tons of other choices. Bryan wants to face Okada for WrestleKingdom 18, how is Bryan supposed to do that at his best if he’s also gonna be in a round robin, doing five top level matches in about as many weeks? And it takes away from Andrade being able to do something. Also a little surprised we didn’t even hear from Andrade on Saturday.

Now as we heard on Saturday, round two’s matches are set. Gold League will see Mark Briscoe VS Rush, White VS Swerve, and of course, Moxley VS Lethal. Nice variety there, a couple 0-1 guys facing off, as well as two 1-0 guys, and then 1-0 VS 0-1. No offense to Lethal, but he feels like an 0-2 going up against Moxley. Hard to call the other ones but that’s the fun of it. Meanwhile, Blue League sees Brody VS Claudio in a showdown to be 2-0, then Bryan and Andrade finally jump in, Bryan against Eddie and Andrade against Garcia. Sadly, feels like Eddie and Garcia are going 0-2, no way Tony Khan is booking Bryan and Andrade to lose their first shots.

In fact, that could be half the reason they did wait on those two, that’s almost too good for just a first round opener. But I still would’ve done it, same as NJPW does stuff like that for round robins, which this is all modeled after anyway.


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AEW announces Continental Classic entrants

The C2 is set!

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Tony Khan Reveals the Blue and Gold “Leagues!”

Originally livestreamed, Tony Khan and Tony Schiavone officially announced the twelve total entrants and divided them into the two round robin blocks known as the “Blue League” and “Gold League.” If you don’t feel like sifting through the almost 30 minute video, the groups are:

Blue League

  • Bryan Danielson
  • Andrade El Idolo
  • Brody King
  • Claudio Castagnoli
  • Daniel Garcia
  • Eddie Kingston

Gold League

  • Jon Moxley
  • Swerve Strickland
  • Rush
  • Mark Briscoe
  • Jay Lethal
  • Jay White

 

Tony Khan also explains the rules for the Continental Classic:

  • Every match has a 20 minute time limit
  • The winner of each match earns 3 points, losers earn 0, 1 point for a draw
  • EVERYONE ELSE is banned from ringside for true 1v1 action

 

Eddie Kingston also joined the selection special as his “life’s work” is on the line in this tournament, both the ROH World Championship and NJPW Strong Openweight Championship on the line as part of the modern day North American Triple Crown Eddie, Tony Khan, AEW, ROH and NJPW are looking to create together. Gold League competes tonight on Dynamite while Blue League will have their start this Saturday on Collision. Look for more articles like this one to keep up with the Continental Classic standings over the next six weeks of tournament action!


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