On January 24, 1993 the sixth annual WWF Royal Rumble was held at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California. Yokozuna won the Royal Rumble match by eliminating Randy Savage and was awarded an opportunity to wrestle for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania IX. This was the first time that the Rumble winner earned a world championship match at WrestleMania, which is now standard for the annual event. In other prominent matches, Bret Hart defeated Razor Ramon to retain the WWF Cham