Sometimes it pays to get paid by the hour. Technically that's true all the time, but in Royal Rumbles sometimes its okay to take your time. These are the 10 WWE stars with the most time spent in the Royal Rumble.
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00:00 If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to save every
00:09 day till eternity passes away just to spend them lying on the mat during a Royal Rumble.
00:18 Pardon my singing voice.
00:19 Yes, it is Royal Rumble season once again, and as we all theorized about who could win
00:23 Willy Wonka's big gold ticket to Vince's stupendous chocolate wrestle factory, here
00:27 we will take a look at the much more fascinating topic of who is getting paid by the hour during
00:31 WWE's most exciting match of the year.
00:33 I mean, if I could take a nap on the floor and rack up meaningless stats in Royal Rumbles,
00:37 I would too.
00:38 I mean, I could be featured on a list on PartsFunKnown, and as we all know, that is a much cooler
00:42 thing than some stupendous title match at some stupendous Wrestlemania.
00:46 I like stat padding.
00:47 Go get your 200th triple-double, Westbrook.
00:50 Sports Ball.
00:51 I'm Tempest Hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are the 10 WWE stars with the most time
00:55 spent in the Royal Rumble.
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01:07 And the bell.
01:08 That's important too.
01:09 Number 10, CM Punk.
01:11 Two hours, 48 minutes, 11 seconds.
01:14 You know, there are a few people on this list whose stats will probably get a boost from
01:17 future appearances in Royal Rumble matches, rendering this list redundant, but this fella
01:22 sure won't be one of them.
01:23 The now revitalized AEW star CM Punk competed in six Royal Rumble matches from 2007 to 2014,
01:30 racking up two hours, 48 minutes, and 11 seconds giving sermons, getting concussed, and generally
01:35 milling about.
01:36 Punk was actually a very solid workhorse in the Royal Rumble match, sporting an average
01:40 of 28 minutes hugging ropes and laughing at Roddy Piper.
01:43 Punk has the least amount of Rumble appearances of anyone on this list, which explains his
01:46 position at number 10, but had he stayed in WWE, he could have made a real run for the
01:51 record.
01:52 He could have died if he stayed in WWE, so these things are never a guarantee.
01:55 Punk's stats are heavily padded with an impressive Iron Man performance in the 2014 Royal Rumble,
01:59 a performance made even more impressive by the fact that Kofi Kingston gave him a concussion
02:03 less than a third of the way through, and the fact that he was less than 24 hours away
02:06 from storming into Vince and Trip's office and telling him just how much he loved working
02:10 for WWE.
02:11 It's been a while since I listened to that podcast.
02:13 I think that's what he said.
02:14 Number 9, John Cena.
02:16 Two hours, 48 minutes, 32 seconds.
02:18 Did you know that John Cena actually has the most Royal Rumble appearances in history?
02:22 Yeah, I didn't believe it either, but he's actually been in 34 Royal Rumbles.
02:26 You just couldn't see him.
02:27 Oh, yuck.
02:28 In reality, Cena has a modest eight Rumble match appearances.
02:31 You might think he would have more than that, considering he's been in WWE for 20 f***ing
02:35 years, but no.
02:36 Injuries, movies, and being champion in January really limit the amount of times you can wabadoo
02:41 your way down to the ring and try and point at a sign.
02:44 As for the appearances he did make, Cena makes it onto this list by maintaining a steady
02:47 average of 21 and a half minutes per Rumble.
02:50 He has a pair of sub-10 minute performances, including his Rumble win in 2008, but he also
02:54 never had a true Iron Man performance either.
02:56 His longest Rumble appearance clocked in at 34 minutes, 17 seconds in the stupid 2011
03:01 Royal Rumble, and it only lasted that long because that Rumble needed to go on god damn
03:05 Weight Watchers.
03:06 Others on this list have a lot more disparity in their longest and shortest appearances,
03:10 but not Cena, who stuck much closer to the median with a series of 15 to 30 minute outings.
03:14 Not remarkable numbers, but enough to earn 9th place.
03:18 Number 8, Cody Rhodes.
03:19 Three hours, six minutes, 45 seconds.
03:22 This long list of current and future Hall of Famers, main event wrestlers whose Royal
03:27 Rumble performances earned many of them the title shots they sought for the great big
03:30 sparkly WrestleMania in the sky, and also Cody Rhodes, the career mid-carder in WWE.
03:37 Not saying he isn't a worthy inclusion, it's just surprising.
03:40 Everyone else on this list is a former multiple time WWE World Champion, and it makes sense
03:44 that they would accrue large numbers of impressive Royal Rumble appearances, but sneaking his
03:48 way onto this list is Cody Rhodes at number 8 with 3 hours, 6 minutes, and 45 seconds
03:53 spent trying to triumph in the tremendous tussle.
03:55 I'll be honest, I can't recall any of these performances for the life of me, but
03:59 looking at these numbers and after consulting Scott Steiner, I can confirm that they do
04:03 add up.
04:04 Cody only has one sub-10 minute appearance, being eliminated by DX in 2010, but otherwise
04:09 he was one of WWE's go-to Royal Rumble performers for the better part of a decade.
04:13 A 37 minute outing in 2009, and a 42 minute showing in 2012 are among the longest of anyone
04:19 on this list, and my god, imagine having to spend 42 minutes being involved in the 2012
04:24 Royal Rumble.
04:25 That's deserving of praise all on its own.
04:26 Number 7, Kane.
04:28 3 hours, 19 minutes, 40 seconds.
04:31 If it wasn't clear from the last entry, these stats are not specific to one gimmick.
04:35 Cody Rhodes can rack up stats dressed as Starman all he wants, and boy, does that ever ring
04:39 true for everyone's favorite corporate dentist, Republican Mayor Diesel impersonator, Kane.
04:44 You know every once in a while, you have to try a few times before you find your calling
04:47 in life.
04:48 Maybe they just didn't have job fairs in hell.
04:50 Honestly, I respect it.
04:51 Before his first appearance as the Devil's Favorite Plaything, or whatever, Kane made
04:55 an appearance as Dr. Isaac Yankum DDS in 1996, and Super Shredder in 1997.
05:01 Kane is also by far the most bizarre entry on this list.
05:05 Kane's Rumble performances are the definition of a mixed bag.
05:08 On one hand, you have his legendary 54-minute performance in 2001, where he eliminated a
05:13 then-record 11 people.
05:16 But then you also realize that's almost a third of his accumulated time, and Kane also
05:20 has the record for most Rumble appearances with f***ing 20.
05:23 What the f*** happened?
05:25 It's f***ing Kane, innit?
05:26 He should have like 9 hours racked up by now.
05:29 But no, rather, Kane has an inconceivable 9 Rumble appearances at less than 4 minutes.
05:35 7 of them come in at less than 2 minutes.
05:38 If I have to hear commentators say "How will they ever get HIM over the top rope?"
05:42 again, I will rip off my nose and hang it on my chin.
05:46 If you can eliminate Kane in under 2 minutes, it can't be that hard, Cole.
05:50 6.
05:51 Edge 3 hours, 31 minutes, 51 seconds.
05:54 Well now that the baffling one is out of the way, let's turn our attention to a more heartwarming
05:58 inclusion.
05:59 Simply put, Edge would not have cracked the top 10 without his miraculous comeback.
06:02 Hell, he wouldn't have even cracked the top 15.
06:05 That's not to say that his Rumble appearances weren't great before then, but Edge was another
06:09 example of injuries and January dates with the big gold belt keeping him from participating
06:13 in the old countdown run-down showdown.
06:15 I mean, I understand that.
06:16 Look at that belt.
06:17 It is in fact big and gold.
06:19 Edge actually has multiple Ironman performances, robberting his way to 40 minutes in 2005,
06:24 down-ee-ing for 44 minutes in 2007, and junior-ing a 58 and a half minute performance to win
06:29 the Rumble in 2021.
06:31 Performances that would have the Mandarin running scared.
06:33 Also, did you know Edge is the only person to win multiple Royal Rumbles and lose both
06:38 of his subsequent WrestleMania matches?
06:39 Oh no, I'm sad again.
06:42 Number 5, Rey Mysterio 3 hours, 45 minutes, 16 seconds.
06:46 Okay, alright, fine.
06:48 I've made it this far without having to bring this up, but I can make it no further.
06:52 We're not counting the greatest Royal Rumble, and neither should you.
06:55 It's dumb, and it should be forgotten.
06:57 As far as I'm concerned, it is not canon in the lineage of Royal Rumbles, much like we
07:01 don't count the Raw Rumble from 2011, or the Smackdown Rumble from 2004.
07:05 This needed to be said, because the only person affected by not acknowledging that 80 minute
07:09 slog is Rey Mysterio.
07:11 If you count that match, then just bump Rey up two spots, but I'm not gonna.
07:14 Sorry Rey, you were in the first match I ever saw, and I love you for it.
07:18 Seems that over the years, WWE has forgotten how much of a legend they have on their hands
07:23 in Rey Mysterio.
07:24 Rey's Rumble performances are a pretty revealing reflection of that, as 3 hours of his 3 hour
07:28 45 minute accumulated total came in his first 5 appearances.
07:33 This of course includes his all time record 62 minute 12 second performance in 2006, as
07:38 well as going 38 minutes in 2005, and 49 minutes in 2009.
07:42 That's really solid stuff.
07:44 But since 2011, Rey has struggled to accumulate the last 40 minutes of his total in 6 combined
07:50 matches.
07:51 I mean, it's bloody Rey Mysterio.
07:52 Treat him like he's a big deal, ya bellends.
07:55 Number 4, Shawn Michaels, 3 hours 47 minutes 32 seconds.
07:59 You know what I don't understand?
08:01 Why would you lie about stats from the Royal Rumble?
08:04 You'd never hear Joe Buck say Tom Brady has won 10 Super Bowls just because it sounds
08:08 impressive.
08:09 Sportsball.
08:10 I mean, you can look that shit up.
08:12 Very easily.
08:13 So why does WWE love saying that Shawn Michaels lasted an hour in the Royal Rumble in 1995?
08:18 I know it's WWE, and they're about as trustworthy as Fletcher Reed, but the Royal Rumble is
08:23 like the one WWE match based on f***ing statistics.
08:27 They air a million "by the numbers" videos each year.
08:30 Whatever.
08:31 Shawn Michaels does find himself high on this list, even if his Rumble-winning performance
08:34 in 1995 lasted 38 minutes and not an hour.
08:38 HBK has a very respectable track record in the aristocratic altercation.
08:41 Although his 38 minute 95 performance is the longest outing of Shawn's career, he did
08:46 have several 24 minute plus showings as well, and one where he was eliminated in 12 seconds
08:51 in 1990, but I mean, look at him.
08:53 That's not the heartbreak kid.
08:54 That's a heartbroken child.
08:55 Look at this frilly lavender outfit.
08:57 Why isn't he wearing this stuff today?
08:59 Number 3, Triple H, 4 hours, 50 seconds.
09:02 Triple H has 3 Royal Rumble performances over 45 minutes?
09:05 Okay.
09:06 Trips doesn't stand out as a legendary Sovereign Scuffle performer to me, but at over 4 hours
09:11 of accumulated Rumble time?
09:12 Yeah, alright.
09:13 Fair enough.
09:14 His Rumble debut saw him go 48 minutes in 1996, one of the only impressive things about
09:19 that match.
09:20 His runner-up performance in 2009 clocked in at a whopping 50 minutes, and his 2006
09:25 outing where he and Rey Mysterio started the match as entrance number 2 saw them both fight
09:29 for over an hour.
09:30 Trips 2006 60 minute 16 second showing gets lost in the shuffle because of Rey Mysterio's
09:35 much more impressive 62 minute 12 second performance.
09:39 I mean, anyone can wrestle for 60 minutes.
09:42 Big deal.
09:43 But 62 minutes?
09:44 Hot diggity damn.
09:45 Now that is impressive.
09:47 But Triple H still stands with the 4th longest single Rumble performance.
09:51 Not too shabby.
09:52 With over 4 hours spent in Royal Rumbles, the only game "the game" has been playing
09:56 is the waiting game.
09:57 But the waiting game sucks, so let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos.
10:00 Number 2, Randy Orton, 4 hours 20 minutes 49 seconds.
10:05 Remember that time Randy Orton won the 2017 Royal Rumble?
10:08 Yeah, that was dumb.
10:09 Samoa Joe, Finn Balor, Sami Zayn, Chris Jericho?
10:13 None of these seemed like better options.
10:14 Alright, whatever.
10:15 This isn't the point of the video.
10:17 I like Randy Orton.
10:18 Randy is a really weird one for this list because on one hand, I am so sad he couldn't
10:23 have been in this match for 20 more seconds.
10:25 I know it would never be written as 69 seconds, but let me have this one.
10:29 But on the other hand, I'm looking at the numbers for his Rumble appearances and man,
10:32 this was an unremarkable 4 and a half hours.
10:35 He has two major Ironman performances when he won in 2009 and again in 2021 when he entered
10:41 at number 2 and was the runner up.
10:43 But otherwise, man, this massive accumulated time really is the result of being in so many
10:48 of these matches.
10:49 Orton has competed in 12 Rumbles, tied for second most of those on this list.
10:53 We've got 13 minutes in 2006, 8 minutes in 2011, 5 minutes in 2012, 10 minutes in 2013,
10:59 14 minutes in 2018, 6 minutes in 2019, and 14 minutes in 2020.
11:05 Like I said, it's very unremarkable, but when half of his 4 hours comes in in two massive
11:10 outings, the rest really does just sort of add up.
11:13 I've done far too much math for this list, my head hurts.
11:16 And number 1, Chris Jericho.
11:19 4 hours, 56 minutes, 15 seconds.
11:23 I knew this one was coming.
11:24 Chris Jericho, this cheeky little sausage, might have the record for the most time spent
11:29 on WWE pay-per-view performing while actually doing nothing for his appearance at the 2017
11:35 Royal Rumble.
11:36 Not only did he rack up the 5th longest time spent in a single Rumble with 1 hour 13 seconds,
11:41 but if you recall, he also spent about 25 minutes hanging in a shark cage during Kevin
11:45 Owens' Universal title match with Roman Reigns that night.
11:48 If Jericho was working by the hour, he was f***ing milking it that night.
11:52 How Jericho never won the Royal Rumble is such a mystery to me, especially when you
11:56 consider that he was the obvious choice in 2012 and 2017.
12:00 While it appears unlikely that Chris Jericho will ever compete in a Royal Rumble again
12:04 (insert footage of a shocking 2022 Rumble appearance here), Jericho's record near
12:08 5 hours spent in the Royal Rumble may never be approached if Randy Orton doesn't start
12:13 to pick up the pace.
12:14 Jericho earned these minutes too.
12:16 His average Royal Rumble appearance is almost a half hour.
12:19 39 minutes in 2003, 28 in 2005, 37 in 2009, 48 in 2013, and 50 in 2016 make Jericho the
12:28 obvious candidate for the biggest workhorse in Royal Rumble history.
12:31 When Jericho takes the short jog down the ramp for the annual "No One Will Be Able
12:35 to Eliminate the Big Show" match, he always has his working boots on.
12:39 Now run along before all these stats change in 2 weeks.
12:43 And that's our list.
12:44 Do you count the greatest Royal Rumble in your stats?
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