They gotta change something in the rumble

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Well if the self elimination rule isn't true then Drew Carey was never eliminated!!! Drew got screwed!!!

[The Amazing Rando 0]

well we can say that Kane was GOING to eliminate him...but Drew was ahead of the game and took the bump a little early.

[kirk angel 0]

I'm not sure what year it was but I marked out when Lawler tried to hide under the ring

[King Cucaracha 0]

I have no problem with people fighting on the outside. If you stop it during the Rumble, you might as well say 'no fighting on the outside in singles matches' as well.

 

The running out of the ring can be a good way of building cocky heels (Nowinski) or cowardly ones (Lawler), seperate action from the inside of the ring when there's many people (Austin in Rumble 98) or when the story needs it (Austin/Vince, which stupid as it seemed gave the Rumble a story through it's otherwise mediocre parts).

 

I don't think you can really outlaw wrestlers from going outside the ring, Rumble or not. Going out of the ringside area equalling automatic elimination would be smarter.

 

 

The other rules...fine.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Just put it in a cage where the objective is to get out.

[Bored 0]

A caged Royal Rumble? Hmmm I think your on to something there.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Yeah, the only problem - logistically - is having 30 men in one cage. There has to be a method of elimination.... Maybe a FIRST BLOOD stipuation!

[nl5xsk1 0]

The old Bunkhouse Stampede's were cage battle royals, where the object was to throw your opponents out or over the cage. I've never actually seen one, so I have no idea how they work, but it's what my otherwise iffy memories are.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Lawler hiding under the ring gave me a flashback. I think it was the 2000 Rumble. Road Dogg just seemed to disapear for a while, and when the camera came back to him he was in one of the corners just clutching onto the bottom rope, no one else was even around him...it was so damn funny cause he'd do it a couple of times.

[Austin3164life 0]

They could solve the problem by having a 30 second time limit outside of the ring. If you are caught outside, no matter if you are there voluntarily or not, you're eliminated. It cuts down on overused and abused "heelish" acts where they purposely slide under the ropes to leave or dwell outside.