Additionally, The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) defeated The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn) by disqualification, therefore not winning the WWF Tag Team Championship, and "The Rock" Rocky Maivia defeated Ken Shamrock to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

Although he was advised not to compete by doctors, Animal rested through the first few weeks of the year, while the Outlaws ran roughshod through the tag division before this pay-per-view.

[10] To mock Undertaker, Triple H, and Chyna brought a casket to the ring only for Michaels to appear from inside, and spray paint it in D-Generation X slogans.

Undertaker made his full presence known the following week, interrupting an interview in which Michaels was claiming to introduce the newest DX member: Kane.

Kane made a surprise appearance and helped Undertaker, fighting DX up to the ramp before turning and reaching his hand out in an Undertaker-like salute which his brother returned.

Vader soon recovered, and threw Goldust into the turnbuckle, before eventually falling out of the ring, where he also shoved Luna Vachon to the ground.

[11] With Sunny as the special guest referee, a six-man tag match of lucha libre midget wrestling took place.

[11] Next up, the Intercontinental Championship bout began with an exchange of punches, and a few kicks until Ken Shamrock mistimed a hurricanrana, allowing Rocky Maivia to slam him down.

[11] In the tag team match, New Age Outlaws prematurely began by attacking Legion of Doom before the bell rang.

[11] The Royal Rumble match then began with Mick Foley's persona Cactus Jack as entrant #1, bringing trash cans to the ring.

As Rocky Maivia entered at #4, he was met with a trash can over the head, being bundled out of the ring under the bottom rope briefly.

As the ring began to fill up, Cactus Jack went to clothesline Charlie over the top rope, but inadvertently threw himself over, and was eliminated.

Owen Hart came out at #9, but before he was able to enter the ring, NWA North American Champion Jeff Jarrett, and his manager Jim Cornette attacked him.

When the clock counted down to #22, no contestant appeared; with Jerry Lawler on commentary claiming that the number was given to Stone Cold Steve Austin, who had reportedly been taken out backstage.

By #23, the Nation of Domination had four members (Maivia, D'Lo Brown, Mark Henry, and Kama Mustafa) in the ring, although they seldom worked together.

Maivia survived almost being thrown out, only for Austin to nail him with a Stunner before he was finally eliminated, giving Stone Cold the win.

Michaels climbed to the top rope and delivered an elbow drop into the casket, and the two briefly fought inside the closed coffin.

Undertaker then dragged the champion to the ring apron, and hit a jumping tombstone piledriver, depositing Michaels into the casket, and seemingly securing the victory.

DX quickly capitalized on the opportunity and shut the lid, thus ending the match, and allowing Michaels to retain his title.

Rocky was clearly on his way to being a star, Austin wasn't quite yet the biggest name in the industry but was close, and Michaels' (sort of) career-ending injury.

[11] By winning the Royal Rumble match, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin won the right to face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XIV.

Mike Tyson's presence in the director's box was revealed the following night because he was taking the role of special guest referee for the event.

[17] To this day, many see this moment as the official genesis for the "Attitude Era", and WWF's resurging dominance over chief rival World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

As it transpired, during a one-off match with Triple H at the 2002 SummerSlam,[18] Michaels realized his back no longer hampered him, and he made a full-time return to wrestling.

His last-minute replacement was Savio Vega, who appeared in the main event eight-man tag team match, which saw several high-profile feuds converge on the road to WrestleMania.

[19] The New Age Outlaws would go on to take part in the eight-man main event at No Way Out of Texas, sparring opposite Cactus Jack, and Chainsaw Charlie ahead of their WrestleMania title match.

^ Triple H and Chyna were not entrants in the Royal Rumble Match; they arrived in the arena during Honky Tonk Man's entry and worked together to eliminate Owen.

^ Skull never made it to the ring; he was attacked by Los Boricuas prior to the Royal Rumble match when they mistook him for Stone Cold Steve Austin.