Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on January 22nd.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 22, 1995) – WWF Royal Rumble 1995
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 22, 1995, the World Wrestling Federation aired their annual ‘Royal Rumble’ event LIVE on PPV from the Sun Dome in Tampa, Florida.
With only a total match-time of 38 minutes and 41 seconds, this was by far the shortest Royal Rumble match in WWF/E history.
That was only possible because they shortened the intervals, so another wrestler entered every 60 seconds.
The PPV Results:
WWF Intercontinental Championship: Jeff Jarrett defeated Razor Ramon (c)
The Undertaker defeated Irwin R. Schyster
WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Diesel (c) wrestled Bret Hart to a draw
Vacant WWF Tag Team Championship: 1–2–3 Kid & Bob Holly defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka
Shawn Michaels won the 30-man Royal Rumble match
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 22, 1994) – WWF Royal Rumble 1994
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 22, 1994, the World Wrestling Federation aired their annual ‘Royal Rumble’ event LIVE on PPV from the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
This was the first and also has been the only time in history, that a Royal Rumble match was not won by 1 wrestler, but by 2 wrestlers at the same time.
Results:
Tatanka defeated Bam Bam Bigelow
WWF Tag Team Championship: The Quebecers (c) defeated Bret Hart & Owen Hart
WWF Intercontinental Championship: Razor Ramon (c) defeated Irwin R. Schyster
Casket match – WWF World Heavyweight Championship: Yokozuna (c) defeated The Undertaker
Bret Hart and Lex Luger co-won the 30-man Royal Rumble match
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (January 22, 1987) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on January 22, 1987, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the PNE Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
This live event included matches featuring the 1987 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Billy Jack Haynes defeated Dino Bravo
Pedro Morales wrestled Nick Kiniski to a draw
Rick Martel & Tom Zenk defeated Brutus Beefcake & Greg Valentine
Ron Bass defeated Cpl. Kirchner
Butch Reed defeated Tito Santana
Jim Brunzell & Brian Blair defeated Don Muraco & Bob Orton Jr.
Jake Roberts wrestled Paul Orndorff to a double count-out
WWF IC Champion Randy Savage defeated Ricky Steamboat by DQ
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