WWE WrestleMania XI
WWE WrestleMania XI
| 02 April 1995 (USA)
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WWF’s biggest night looms even larger with NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor battles Bam Bam Bigelow in the main event. WWF Champion Diesel faces Shawn Michaels. Bret "Hit Man" Hart takes on Bob Backlund in an "I Quit" match. The Undertaker and much more.

Reviews
powermandan

In general, WrestleMania delivers. Its professional wrestling's biggest night where each wrestler tries to put on the best matches they can. Sometimes blunders can happen. The eleventh annual event is a good example.The opening match was the underrated team of Lex Luger and the British bulldog against the short-lived Jacob and Eli Blu. Luger and Bulldog won in an average bout. 6.5/10Next up was Razor Ramon trying to take the Intercontinental title back from Jeff Jarrett. The match was decent, although inferior to their Summerslam bout. 7/10Then there was Undertaker against King Kong Bundy. None of Taker's Mania matches were that good at this point. This was no exception. 6.5/10The final tag team match was for the tag team titles, seeing Billy and Bart Gunn defend it against Owen Hart and Yokozuna. Owen and Yokozuna win. That's it. 6/10Bret Hart and Bob Backlund have an "I Quit" rematch from Survivor Series. Hart has called this his worst match ever. Wrestlers always see things differently than the fans. From a fan's point of view, this isn't THE worst match of Bret's career. But it was still a dull one. 5.5/10The match that really should have closed the show was Diesel against Shawn Michaels for the WWF title. Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy were in the guys' corners and Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the timekeeper. Diesel is the longest reigning champion of the 90s as well and the least-drawing champion and most underrated. This was easily match of the night with Big Daddy Cool retaining. 7.5/10Football legend Lawrence Taylor faces Bam Bam Bigelow in a terrible main event. LT is not a wrestler! WWE likes to have non-wrestlers compete, so this should have been the opener. LT won. Bam Bam could have been the victor and it would have sucked the same. 3/10So there's not really a whole lot to say about this Mania. The matches were either average or bad. Nothing more or less can be said.Overall 6/10

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SlyGuy21

1st Match: The Allied Powers vs The Blu Brothers. An alright start, nothing bad, but not nearly as good as Owen/Bret from the previous year. At least Luger had a better match than his atrocity at Wrestlemania X. Rating: 3/5 2nd Match: Razor Ramone vs Jeff Jarrett, WWF Intercontinental Championship. Is it that hard to have an ending to a title match at Wrestlemania that doesn't end in a DQ? The match is good up to that point, but having a DQ to a title match on your flagship show is so lazy it hurts. Rating: 2.5/5 3rd Match: Undertaker vs King Kong Bundy. For a match so short, it covers all the Undertaker bases pretty well. "The Streak" wasn't even a thing back then, so it's understandable that it wasn't a blockbuster. Rating: 3/5 4th Match: The Smokin' Gunns vs Owen Hart and Yokozuna, WWF Tag Team Championships. The match is good for basically being a squash, I'm just getting' real sick of Owens "I'm better than my brother" gimmick. We get it Owen, you beat your brother a year ago, give it a rest, it's getting really annoying. Hopefully him winning the tag titles'll shut him up for at least 1 PPV. Rating: 3.5/5 5th Match: Bob Backlund vs Bret Hart, "I Quit" match with Rowdy Roddy Piper as the Special Guest Referee. This isn't the best "I Quit" match I've seen, but I'm pretty sure this is the first one, so I'm willing to cut them some slack. This is way better than their match at Survivor Series the previous year. But then again, getting shot would be better than that match. Backlund loses without actually saying "I Quit", which is disappointing, but again, I'll cut them some slack. At least it wasn't one rest hold for 10 minutes. Rating: 3.5/5 6th Match: Shawn Michaels vs Diesel, WWF Championship. This is easily the match of the night. Great back and forth action, the two guys' styles compliment each other, and I liked that Nash won. Had there been less interference, this probably would've been a serious contender for "Match of the Year". Rating: 4.5/5 7th Match: Bam Bam Bigelow vs Lawrence Taylor. I'm of the opinion that is the main event of a PPV isn't a World Title match, it better deliver, and then some. Thankfully, this does. Taylor obviously wasn't a wrestler, but he actually put out a great performance. The crowd's super into the match, and it gave the WWF some serious media attention. A win, win, win situation if you ask me. Rating: 4/5 Final Rating: 7 out of 10. A serious step up from Wrestlemania X, even if the first three matches are OK at best. It's not as good as other Wrestlemanias I've seen, but it's a step in the right direction to be sure.

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amanwhorocks

1. British Bulldog/Lex Luger Vs. Jacob/Eli Blu 5.5/10 2. Intercontinental Title Match: Champ-Jeff Jarrett Vs. Razor Ramon Decent match with DQ ending. 6/10 3. King Kong Bundy Vs. The Undertaker - Undertaker always has got super stiff wrestler like opponents. The matches suffer from that. This feud was quite boring 5/10 4. WWF Tag Title Match: Owen Hart/Yokozuna Vs. Champs-The Smoking Guns - Solid match, new champs. 7/10 5. Submission match: Bob Backlund Vs. Bret Hart - We have to look on multi idiot Backlund and Piper (as referee) simultaneously. That hurts hard. Fortunately the match wasn't too long. 5/10 6. WWF Heavyweight Title Match: Shawn Michaels Vs. Champ-Diesel -Shawn is class better athlete than this woodman Diesel, he can't even Gorilla-press him up. Oz retains. For Shawn 5/10 7. LumberJack Match: Lawrence Taylor Vs. Bam Bam Bigelow - One of the comedy matches that I don't like. For Bam Bam 4.5/10 Remember previous WM? That was event! This was pure sh*t.

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Big Movie Fan

In the main event of WrestleMania XI WWF Champion Diesel defended the belt against accomplished wrestler Shawn Michaels. Diesel was quite good as champion during 1995 and he put on a good match against Shawn Michaels.The undercard for this event was truly great. Razor Ramon and Jeff Jarrett had a good match (those two always had chemistry in the ring). The ever popular Undertaker did his usual burial, this time pinning the monstrous King Kong Bundy. And Tag Team champions The Smoking Gunns put on an entertaining match against Yokosuna and Owen Hart. Bret Hart elevated Bob Backlund to a decent match as well.Lex Luger and Davey Boy Smith made an appearance too as The Allied Powers. They beat identical twins Jacob and Eli Blu. The Allied Powers had so much potential which the WWF never exploited.There was the usual celebrities such as Salt N Peppa and the beautiful Pamela Anderson to make this a memorable event.

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