Wrestlemania XII
Promotion	WWE
Date	March 31, 1996
Venue	Arrowhead Pond
City	Anaheim, California
Attendance	18,853
Last Event	In Your House 6
Next Event	In Your House 7

WrestleMania XII was the twelfth WrestleMania event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on March 31, 1996 at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California.

BackgroundEdit

The main attraction of this WrestleMania was the novelty of the WWF championship match that was guaranteed to last at least one hour. On-screen WWF president "Rowdy" Roddy Piper had announced on an edition of Monday Night Raw that reigning champion Bret Hart must defend the title against Shawn Michaels in the first ever "WWF Iron Man Match"; whereby the winner would be the man with the most decisions over a sixty minute time limit. Michaels had earned the opportunity to face Hart by winning the 1996 Royal Rumble, and had also defeated Owen Hart at In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage for the right to keep the WrestleMania title shot

The main event was built on Bret Hart wanting to retain the WWF Championship against Shawn Michaels, who had suffered a number of setbacks over the course of the previous year, including, losing his match the previous year at WrestleMania XI, being accosted by a group of Marines at a Syracuse, New York nightclub, forfeiting the WWF Intercontinental Championship at In Your House 4: Great White North in October 1995 to Dean Douglas, suffering a storyline concussion at the hands of Owen Hart, and being betrayed in storyline by close friend Diesel at a house show at Madison Square Garden.

ProductionEdit

The WrestleMania XII logo is a parody of the 20th Century Fox logo. Portions of the Hollywood Backlot Brawl used stock footage of the LAPD freeway chase involving O. J. Simpson.

ResultsEdit

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

(c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match.

• Free for all: The Bodydonnas (Skip and Zip) (w/ Sunny) defeated The Godwinns (Henry and Phineas) (w/ Hillbilly Jim) to win the vacant WWF Tag Team Championship (5:21)
• Camp Cornette (Vader, Owen Hart and British Bulldog) (w/ Jim Cornette) defeated Yokozuna, Jake Roberts and Ahmed Johnson (w/ Mr. Fuji) (12:51)
• The Ringmaster (w/ Ted DiBiase) defeated Savio Vega (10:00)
• The Ultimate Warrior defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley (w/ Sable) (1:36)
• The Undertaker (w/ Paul Bearer) defeated Diesel (16:46)
• Roddy Piper defeated Goldust (w/ Marlena) in a Hollywood Backlot Brawl
• Shawn Michaels (w/ Jose Lothario) defeated Bret Hart (c) to win the WWF Championship in an Iron Man match (1:01:52)

Tag Title TournamentEdit

The tournament was held between February 20 and March 31, 1996. The tournament brackets were:

Other on-screen talentEdit

Also SeeEdit

• List of WWE pay-per-view events
• WWE Event History
• WrestleMania

DVD releaseEdit

• WrestleMania XII on DVD

External linksEdit

• WrestleMania XII official website
• WrestleMania XII at CAGEMATCH.net
• WrestleMania XII at Online World of Wrestling

History of WrestleMania

I (1985) • II (1986) • III (1987) • IV (1988) • V (1989) • VI (1990) • VII (1991) • VIII (1992) • IX (1993) • X (1994) • XI (1995) • XII (1996) • XIII (1997) • XIV (1998) • XV (1999) • XVI (2000) • XVII (2001) • XVIII (2002) • XIX (2003) • XX (2004) • XXI (2005) • XXII (2006) • XXIII (2007) • XXIV (2008) • XXV (2009) • XXVI (2010) • XXVII (2011) • XXVIII (2012) • XXIX (2013) • XXX (2014)

WrestleMania

I (1985) • II (1986) • III (1987) • IV (1988) • V (1989) • VI (1990) • VII (1991) • VIII (1992) • IX (1993)

X (1994) • XI (1995) • XII (1996) • XIII (1997) • XIV (1998) • XV (1999) • XVI (2000) • XVII (2001) • XVIII (2002)

XIX (2003) • XX (2004) • XXI (2005) • XXII (2006) • XXIII (2007) • XXIV (2008) • XXV (2009) • XXVI (2010) • XXVII (2011) • XXVIII (2012) • XXIX (2013) • XXX (2014)