Due to Lex Luger and Bret Hart being named the co-winners of the 1994 Royal Rumble match, both challenged champion Yokozuna.

Razor Ramon defeated Shawn Michaels in a Ladder match to resolve an angle in which the two had argued over the rightful holder of the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

[7] WrestleMania is considered the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) flagship pay-per-view (PPV) event, having first been held in 1985.

[1] The storyline surrounding the WWF Championship began at the 1994 Royal Rumble when the final two wrestlers, Lex Luger and Bret Hart, simultaneously eliminated each other.

[11] After a disagreement between two referees, Jack Tunney, the WWF President, declared Luger and Hart co-winners.

[14] If Hart won the coin toss, he would get the first title shot, and Luger would wrestle Crush earlier on the card.

[14] On the January 31, 1994 episode of Monday Night Raw, Luger won the coin toss and the right to face Yokozuna first.

The storyline between the Hart brothers began at Survivor Series 1993, where they were competing on the same side of an elimination match.

The storyline leading to the match between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Crush focused on the supposedly strained friendship between the two wrestlers.

[24] In a worked promo, Crush announced that he had turned against Savage and the United States in order to align himself with Yokozuna and Fuji.

[24] During the November 8, 1993 episode of Monday Night Raw, Savage left his position as commentator to attack Crush.

Instead, the WWF prolonged the feud by having Bigelow's team face The Bushwhackers and Men on a Mission dressed as Doinks.

[31] Ramon won the title after competing in a battle royal and defeating Rick Martel, the other finalist in the match.

Near the end of the match, The Bushwhackers gained control when they performed the Battering Ram on Jimmy Del Ray.

[35] As the broadcast began, Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler were introduced as commentators for the event and Little Richard sang "America the Beautiful".

[37] Owen eventually gained momentum by using a camel clutch on Bret and performing suplexes and a Tombstone piledriver.

The rules stated that any time a wrestler was pinned, he then had to make it back inside the ring within sixty seconds or he would lose the match.

[37] The Quebecers used several double-team moves against their opponents, but Mabel reversed the momentum after Pierre missed a senton bomb.

[37] Men on a Mission regained the advantage, prompting The Quebecers' manager, Johnny Polo, to pull his wrestlers out of the ring.

[37] Michaels fell into the ropes and got tangled up, allowing Ramon to get the belts and win the undisputed Intercontinental Championship.

[37] A ten-man tag team match was supposed to take place next, but it was canceled due to time constraints.

[40] Bob Holly ("Sparky Plugg"), stated in his 2013 autobiography The Hardcore Truth that the timekeeper backstage repeatedly told the referee over his earpiece to end the ladder match, but Michaels and Ramon ignored him and kept wrestling until officials were forced to cancel the tag team match.

Afterwards, Bret Hart celebrated in the ring with several of the face wrestlers including Lex Luger, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Razor Ramon, Tatanka, The 1–2–3 Kid, Sparky Plugg and "Macho Man" Randy Savage.

Others who joined in the celebration included Burt Reynolds, Rhonda Shear, Donnie Wahlberg, and WWF commentators Gorilla Monsoon and Vince McMahon.

Owen Hart stood in the aisle, glaring at Bret, then quickly left; the brothers continued their feud for the remainder of 1994, with the WWF Championship often on the line.

In 2010, Rob McNew of 411mania gave the event an overall score of 9.0 out of 10.0 and noted that WrestleMania X "may lack a lot of historical significance due to being during a relative downtime for the business, but this show kicked all kinds of ass."

It received a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer and was voted Match of the Year (1994) by readers of his Wrestling Observer Newsletter publication.

[46] Mike "The General" Lambertson, a former professional wrestler from Deep South Wrestling and contributor to voicesofwrestling.com called the match “The greatest sports entertainment event in Madison Square Garden’s history” on episode 138 of the "Talk is Jericho" podcast.

At King of the Ring, their real-life brother-in-law and Bret's former tag team partner Jim Neidhart became involved in the angle by helping Owen win the tournament.

Bret faced Bob Backlund in a match with the stipulation that the winner would be declared when a competitor's cornerman threw a towel into the ring to signify a submission.