Taylor won the match, which led to Bigelow being kicked out of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation.

Shawn Michaels faced WWF Champion Diesel in a title match but was unable to win the championship.

Owen Hart and his mystery partner, Yokozuna, challenged The Smoking Gunns for the WWF Tag Team Championship and won the title belts.

Others thought that the WWF pushing a football player to defeat a wrestler made professional wrestling look bad.

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

It has become the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April.

[6] Special Olympian Kathy Huey sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" during the event, replacing the previously advertised band, Fishbone.

Nicholas Turturro, one of the stars of NYPD Blue, conducted interviews and served as a guest ring announcer.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas of Home Improvement was a guest timekeeper for the match between Diesel and Shawn Michaels.

[11] The storyline between Bigelow and Taylor brought the WWF much mainstream exposure, as the match was discussed by several news outlets.

Backlund mistakenly thought he won the match and began celebrating, but Hart pinned him to retain the title.

The Blus capitalized on the fact that they are identical twins by switching places without tagging while the referee was not looking.

He then threw Jarrett to the mat with a suplex from the second rope and prepared to execute the Razor's Edge, his finishing move.

[22][23] The Smoking Gunns defended their WWF Tag Team Championship in the next match against Owen Hart and his mystery partner, who was revealed to be Yokozuna.

Hart tagged in and considered performing the Sharpshooter submission hold; instead, he pinned Billy Gunn to win the title belts for his team.

It was explained that, in order to win the match, a wrestler must force his opponent to say "I quit" into a microphone held by Piper.

[22][23] In the next match, which was for the WWF Championship, challenger Shawn Michaels was accompanied to the ring by Jenny McCarthy and Diesel, the champion, was escorted by Pamela Anderson.

Diesel recovered and controlled the remainder of the match with power moves before throwing Michaels to the mat with a botched Jackknife and getting the pinfall victory.

Bigelow was accompanied by the members of DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation: King Kong Bundy, Tatanka, Irwin R. Schyster, Kama, and Nikolai Volkoff.

To prevent the Corporation members from interfering, Taylor brought several football players: Ken Norton Jr., Chris Spielman, Rickey Jackson, Carl Banks, Reggie White, and Steve McMichael.

Taylor began to take control of the match again, but Bigelow kicked him in the back of the head and then performed a headbutt from the top rope.

This was down from the previous year's attendance of 18,065,[26] but the decline could be attributed to the smaller size of the venue for WrestleMania XI.

[26] Writing for 411mania, columnist Dustin James rated the event as the seventeenth best of the first twenty-three WrestleManias.

The specific concerns he mentioned in his review are Diesel's championship reign and WWF allowing a football player to defeat a wrestler in what he describes as a "sham of a match".

[33] The animosity lingered between Michaels and Sid, but they did not face each other to settle the feud until the September 11, 1995 episode of Monday Night Raw.

[36] Razor Ramon and the 1–2–3 Kid was scheduled to face Jeff Jarrett and The Roadie at In Your House 1 the month after WrestleMania.

The Undertaker was not able to recapture the remnants of the urn until he ended his feud with King Mabel in another Casket match.

[43] Steve McMichael, who accompanied Lawrence Taylor, joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) later in 1995 as a color commentator then eventually as an in-ring performer, joining the famous Four Horseman when he turned on and betrayed his tag team partner and former NFL star Kevin Greene at The Great American Bash '96 near the end of their tag team match against Ric Flair and Arn Anderson.

[44] The event was also released on DVD in North America as part of the WrestleMania Complete Anthology boxed set on November 1, 2005.

[46] Packaged together with WrestleMania XII, it was then released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of the WWE Tagged Classics line on August 7, 2006.