asuka won the men's 2018 royal rumble.
who won the men's 2018 royal rumble?
asuka
on january 17, 2017, lawler returned to "smackdown live" to host the return of the king's court from his hometown of memphis, tennessee. during his interview with dolph ziggler, ziggler took credit for lawler's real life heart attack in 2012 before and kicking him in the chest and leaving the ring. later that night on "talking smack", renee young announced that lawler, michael cole and corey graves will be the commentary team for the royal rumble match at the 2017 royal rumble. on august 28, 2017, jerry filled in for booker t on raw commentary from his hometown of memphis, tennessee. lawler, jim ross and numerous other wwe legends appeared on raw 25 on january 22. on january 26, 2018 it was revealed that lawler signed a new one year deal with wwe. at the 2018 royal rumble, during the men's match, lawler was the special guest commentator where he correctly predicted that shinsuke nakamura would win the match.
jerry lawler
the royal rumble match traditionally involves 30 wrestlers and usually lasts an hour (the 2011 edition had a 40-man field). the greatest royal rumble (the only edition to have a 50-man field) was the longest, lasting one hour and 17 minutes of a five-hour pay-per-view event while the first televised rumble match in 1988 involved only 20 men and lasted 33 minutes of the two-hour broadcast. the 1998 royal rumble nominally had the traditional 30-man field, but only 28 individual wrestlers competed as mick foley entered the royal rumble match three different times—first as his cactus jack gimmick, then as his mankind gimmick, and finally as his dude love gimmick. the 2018 royal rumble was the first to include a women's royal rumble match, contested under the same rules as the men's match, including having 30 participants.
royal rumble match