Counting down to the 2019 WWE Royal Rumble, Solomonster ranks the Top 10 championship matches in Royal Rumble history. This week, #9 on the countdown comes to us from the 1999 Royal Rumble in Anaheim, CA with Mankind defending the WWE title against The Rock in their infamously brutal “I Quit” Match.
2018-12-05
Won’t be long till we see Aj Styes vs John Cena, John Cena vs Umaga, Seth Rollins vs Brock Leasner vs John Cena. Looking at it now John Cena is amazing when it comes to championship matches at the Royal Rumble.
I've got a feeling of the #1 spot
I kinda get tired of talking about the past all the time. We sond like some bunch of 80-year olds. Yes wrestling was great 20-30 years ago. No it will never be like that again. I love oldschool wrestling, but somewhere along the way I feel I have to let go.
I'm honestly not that numb to the match I really love this match with everything evolved.
Don't get me wrong knowing what I know it is messed up but I've seen a lot worse than what this match showed.
It's not like it was the worst thing I ever saw in my life.
With that said I actually do like the Finish because I thought it was smart on the heel part for the Rock.
And it truly show that mankind never gave up and he was basically screwed out of the title.
I watch a lot of ECW matches as well and some of those were even way more brutal that this match.
Not quite as fun but way more Brooke so if I can watch that I can definitely watch this without flinching.
But I do shaking my head in the back of my mind saying yeah they went a bit too far.
But at the same time I'll be damned if it was an awesome match to watch that's kind of the nature of wrestling in general of that era they always did things that pushed the boundaries of what they should do with their bodies but it didn't stop us from watching it and enjoying it.
Eddie Guerrero when he got hit with a brutal chair and accidentally busted his artery.
I personally thought was even worse than this because Eddie went another 20 minutes in that match which is blood pumping out of his head.
It's still kind of hard to watch but at the same time it made the match so much better than what it was.
But that's just my take I can handle stuff of it better than most.
I definitely would place to match much much higher.
Just because I do not agree with how things should have went down to the match does not detract on how good I thought the matter actually was.
Because by that logic I would have to say every stupidly brutal thing wwe have ever did shouldn't count as a good match. Which is absolutely nonsense in my mind.
But that's just my opinion
Foley is arguably the most important person when it comes to the attitude era. Without him neither The Rock nor Triple H would've been as established as they were back then by foley, on top of that his iconic hell in a cell bump is the most famous spot in wrestling being up there with Jeff Hardy TLC bumps and hogan slamming Andre. Maybe not the most important guy but he was definitely at the least number 4 on the Mount Rushmore of the attitude era