WWE Royal Rumble: 5 alternate past Rumble endings that could have changed the course of history

#1 The Lex Express (1994)

There were co winners of the 1994 Rumble - but should it have been that way?

The Lex Express ultimately derailed in WWE, the tyres of its momentum well and truly punctured by the middle of 1995, when Lex decided to up and leave to WCW in a sensational departure.

It all had roots, its believed, in what was a frustrating time for the man acclaimed to have been Made in the USA – and the 1994 Royal Rumble played a big part. Lex was the company’s biggest babyface in the summer of 1993 when he failed in his opportunity to oust Yokozuna as WWF Champion. The storyline was as such that this would be Lex’s one and only shot at the title, but apparent fan support saw on-screen President, Jack Tunney, to allow Luger into the 1994 Rumble match, much to the delight of his followers and much to the chagrin of Yokozuna’s management.

Lex would surely go on to finally realise the dreams of millions of Americans and dispatch the ‘evil’ Yokozuna, snaring his championship in the process at Wrestlemania X, right? Sadly for Lex, no. After Luger and Bret Hart were deemed ‘co-winners’ of the Rumble match having allegedly eliminating each other at exactly the same time, Tunney insisted that both men would have a crack at the champ at Madison Square Garden, with Bret going on to famously down Yokozuna and carry the title for much of the rest of the year.

How different 1994 and the careers of both Bret and Luger might have looked, then, had Luger been named the sole victor at the Rumble? It’s said many fans favoured him over Hart, but it’s a story that’ll never be told.