The contest ended after a potential winner failed to guess the proper key to the casket containing the prize money.

Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer",[1] it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series,[2] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring.

On the July 7 episode of Raw is War at Edmonton, Alberta, Hart was announced as the number one contender for the WWF Championship.

A predominant feud entering the event featured WWF Intercontinental Champion Owen Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

In his audiobook autobiography, Austin revealed that he and Hart were planning on the spots in the match when Austin (who was booked to win the match and the title) suggested to Hart about performing a piledriver as a false finish, under the condition that it was the knee-drop Tombstone piledriver variant used by The Undertaker as opposed to the more common variant of landing on his butt.

(In an ironic bit of foreshadowing, Jim Ross mentioned several times on commentary about Austin's history of neck problems before the botched move.)

[8] The injury left Austin sidelined for weeks, during a time when the WWF could ill afford to have their biggest rising star off of television during their lowest point in the Monday Night War when WCW was amid an 83-week winning streak with WCW Monday Nitro beating out Raw is War.

The botch, while initially appearing fatal for the WWF in the Monday Night War, ultimately proved to be a speed bump.

Subsequent wrestlers who used variations of the piledriver on the independent circuit, such as Kevin Owens, dropped the move from their moveset upon signing with the now-WWE.

Dunn of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 5.0 [Not So Good], stating, "It was headed into "worst PPV ever" territory until the final two matches.

For example, the then-governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman was given significant time on the microphone and a championship belt, for lowering taxes on professional wrestling events.

In another segment, Todd Pettengill spent significant time calling several people on the phone with no one answering, as he stared at a list of names Tammy Lynn Sytch was holding under her cleavage, for a purported million-dollar sweepstakes promotion.