For the 1995 event, the winner received a match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XI.

The main event was the 1995 Royal Rumble match, which Shawn Michaels won after entering first and outlasting the 29 other wrestlers.

The event also featured a match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, where Diesel defended the title against Bret Hart.

Two other title matches took place; Jeff Jarrett won the WWF Intercontinental Championship from Razor Ramon, and The 1–2–3 Kid and Bob Holly won the final match in a tournament that determined the new WWF Tag Team Champions.

The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988.

[6][7] The storyline behind the WWF World Heavyweight Championship match began in 1994, when Bret Hart was feuding with his brother Owen.

[13] The Undertaker had been feuding with DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation since his return to the WWF from an injury in August 1994.

[20][21] Although no major feuds were featured in the Royal Rumble match, Baywatch star Pamela Anderson was in attendance at ringside.

It was announced that she would accompany the winner of the match during his WWF World Heavyweight Championship title shot at WrestleMania XI.

[22] Prior to the live pay-per-view broadcast, Buck Quartermaine defeated The Brooklyn Brawler in a dark match.

[23] In the first televised match, Razor Ramon defended his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Jeff Jarrett, who was accompanied by The Roadie.

The Undertaker gained the advantage at the beginning and held it until Ted DiBiase called his druids to the ring.

Both men got knocked down, however, and a druid snuck into the ring and rolled Schyster on top of The Undertaker for a pinfall attempt.

A druid interfered to prevent the move, but The Undertaker performed a chokeslam on Schyster to gain the pinfall victory.

[11][19][25] The WWF World Heavyweight Championship match was next, in which Diesel defended the title against Bret Hart.

Diesel regained the advantage by using his size and strength to throw Hart and perform power moves to wear him down.

Hart tied Diesel's legs to the ring post with a piece of tape and kicked him repeatedly.

He responded by pushing retired NFL player Lawrence Taylor, who was at ringside, laughing about Bigelow's loss.

[11][13][27] In the main event, Shawn Michaels was the first entrant in the Royal Rumble match, while Davey Boy Smith was the second participant.

As a result of the attack, Owen was quickly eliminated from the match when Smith, his brother-in-law, threw him out of the ring.

[33] Art O'Donnell, writer of the website WrestleCrap, has inducted the 1995 Rumble match into the site's list of "the very worst in pro wrestling".

He cites that most of the Royal Rumble participants' gimmicks and the lack of main event wrestlers (such as Jeff Jarrett, Scott Hall and The Undertaker) as his reasons for including the match in the list.

[35] The event, packaged together with Royal Rumble 1996, was also released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of the WWE Tagged Classics line on April 17, 2006.

[36] On October 15, 2007, WWE released the event in the United Kingdom as part of the Royal Rumble Complete Anthology DVD set.

[38] By losing the belts after one day, the Kid and Holly tied what was at that time the record for the shortest tag team title reign in WWF history.

[39] Razor Ramon faced Jeff Jarrett at WrestleMania XI in a rematch for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

Although The Undertaker won the match,[40] Kama, another member of DiBiase's Corporation, took possession of the urn and melted it down into a necklace.

Hart won the match after special referee Roddy Piper determined that Backlund had conceded defeat.

[40] Bret's feud with Owen was not featured again, but the two did not reunite until they formed The Hart Foundation in 1997 with brothers-in-law Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart.

[53] This led to a tag team match at King of the Ring, where Diesel and Bigelow defeated Tatanka and Sid.