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Promotional poster featuring Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Tagline(s) | Pain! Just a four letter word. | |||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Federation | |||
Sponsor(s) | MCI Communications | |||
Date | January 18, 1998 | |||
Attendance | 18,542 | |||
Venue | San Jose Arena | |||
City | San Jose, California | |||
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Royal Rumble (1998) was the eleventh annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was presented by MCI's 1-800-COLLECT, and took place on January 18, 1998, at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California.
The main event was a casket match between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. The main matches on the undercard were the Royal Rumble match (which Stone Cold Steve Austin won with his final elimination of The Rock, making it his second Royal Rumble win), The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) versus The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and "The Rock" Rocky Maivia versus Ken Shamrock for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.