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Oddball Royal Rumble Match entrants: photos
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7 q! c% j k' g) ]. p0 sPuerto Rican wrestling legend Carlos Colon, dressed in his trademark singlet, corners Bob Backlund in the 1993 Royal Rumble Match.! s, [$ d- i0 P& k" M
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Genichiro Tenryu bum-rushes fellow chop artist "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Q; `( m! `& N" K; S+ ~. |
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9 I( N8 s2 i( E- |' BBefore entering the 1994 Royal Rumble Match with the express purpose of taking out Lex Luger, The Great Kabuki joins a group of rulebreakers in dismantling The Undertaker during The Phenom's Casket Match that night.
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& _: B; o+ a: Y/ Z8 q B# H: _After 10 years away from WWE, Dick Murdoch lunges into the 1994 Royal Rumble Match with a vengeance, clobbering Lex Luger.
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7 v9 o) Q6 f! _* x$ l/ j8 O7 ESecond-generation Superstar Doug Gilbert hauls off on Savio Vega in the 1996 Royal Rumble Match.
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4 y. u. h2 h# y, [Former NWA and WWE World Champions collide as Dory Funk Jr. kicks fellow squared circle veteran Bob Backlund. S4 c5 b6 l/ w! i6 Q
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One of the Squat Team members goes after the mighty Yokozuna.6 J4 G$ w: r2 X! G# H. @6 P
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/ F, F$ m" Q0 n T& n$ d' AIn his one and only WWE appearance, All Japan Pro Wrestling's Takao Omori picks a fight with the 500-plus-pound Mabel.
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Mil Mascaras tangles with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin while Goldust goes after Pierroth in the 1997 Royal Rumble Match.3 J/ g. ~8 i _0 H G0 n& I
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“The Man of 1,000 Masks” tries to add an opponent's hood to his collection. This circuit-board-themed mask belongs to Cibernetico.
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