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WrestleMania XI was the eleventh annual WrestleMania pay-per-view event held by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut on April 2, 1995. The main event was a match between NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor, who faced Bam Bam Bigelow as the result of an argument that took place between the two at the 1995 Royal Rumble. Taylor won the match, which led to Bigelow being kicked out of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. Shawn Michaels faced WWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel in a title match but was unable to win the championship. Jeff Jarrett retained his WWF Intercontinental Championship against Razor Ramon. Owen Hart and his mystery partner, Yokozuna, challenged The Smoking Gunns for the WWF Tag Team Championship and won the title belts. The match between Taylor and Bigelow brought the WWF mainstream press coverage. The reactions to the match were mixed; some people thought that Taylor performed surprisingly well for a non-wrestler. Others thought that the WWF pushing a football player to defeat a wrestler made professional wrestling look bad. Reviews of the event as a whole have also been mixed, and the event has been called both the worst WrestleMania of all time〔 and the event that saved the WWF.〔 ==Production== Special Olympian Kathy Huey sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" during the event, replacing the advertised Fishbone band.〔 Prior to Lawrence Taylor's match against Bam Bam Bigelow, Salt-n-Pepa sang ''Whatta Man''. Several other celebrities also had roles at WrestleMania. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=WWE )〕 On September 30, 1995, a one-hour special including the Diesel vs. Shawn Michaels match and the Lawrence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow match was broadcast on the FOX Network. At the WrestleMania weekend, the WWF also held its Fan Fest, a promotional event during which wrestlers interacted with fans and signed autographs.〔 The WWF released the event on VHS in North America in 1995. The VHS version was then re-released on March 2, 1999. The event was also released on DVD in North America as part of the WrestleMania Complete Anthology boxed set on November 1, 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BH2WF8 )〕 In the United Kingdom, the event was released on VHS on July 10, 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Amazon.co.uk )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2008-09-27 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WrestleMania XI」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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