Wrestlemania 14 WrestleMania XIV was the fourteenth WrestleMania professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) , which took place on March 29 , 1998 at the FleetCenter in Boston , Massachusetts . This pay - per - view event was notable for the involvement of boxer Mike Tyson , who acted as a ring enforcer for the main event . The main event also saw the start of Steve Austin ' s first WWF Championship reign . His victory in the main event , against Shawn Michaels ( who performed despite a severe injury ) , is often cited as the " official " beginning of the Attitude Era . Background . After Legion of Doom lost their Tag Team Championship to the New Age Outlaws , they were assaulted by the Outlaws and D - Generation X . At the Royal Rumble they lost a championship match largely because Road Dogg handcuffed Hawk to the outside of the ring . Following this they suffered two defeats by the NWA members Jeff Jarrett and Barry Windham and finally on the February 23 episode of Raw , they lost again to the New Age Outlaws when , despite having the match all but won , the non - legal Animal did not leave the ring and while the referee was busy removing him , Hawk was struck by the title belts and lost the match . Following the bout the two brawled all the way to the back and announced their dissolution , not appearing again until WrestleMania . After the Montreal Screwjob , Owen Hart was the only member of the Hart family to remain with the company , and after a temporary absence returned during to attack Shawn Michaels . Following this he turned his attention to Hunter Hearst Hemlsley and the European Championship that Michaels had given to Helmsley as a Christmas present . After weeks of deterring a championship match by way of a fractured kneecap , Triple H finally acquiesced to a match on January 26 ' s " Raw is War " , only for the Artist Formerly Known as Goldust ( who was dressing up from week to week in a bid for attention ) to appear in Helmsley ' s place . After Hart won the match , WWF Commissioner Slaughter declared the disguise so convincing that he upheld the decision and awarded the belt to Hart . On Raw , March 2 , Hart defended the title against Mark Henry , Chyna came to the ring and pushed Hart off the turnbuckle allowing Henry to lock on a bearhug , but before he could submit she gave an obvious lowblow to Henry , resulting in a disqualification in favour of Hart . The following week in a match against Barry Windham , Hart landed awkwardly on his ankle suffering a ( kayfabe ) injury . On a special Tuesday edition of " Raw " , March 17 , the following week Hart joined the commentary team with a supportive case on his leg ; while commentating Triple H came to the ringside and goaded him into an impromptu title defence despite his cast , during the match Chyna appeared and hit his ankle with a bat allowing Helmsley to win the title back . Owing to his jealousy over the attention his wife and valet , Sable , was garnering from the crowd , Marc Mero sent tried to cover up her provocative clothing and eventually sent her to the back , replacing her with The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust who at the time was dressing up from week to week in his own bid of self - attention . Although the two worked well together , Goldust ' s valet Luna Vachon grew vocally disdainful of Sable , who was also being mocked by Mero and Goldust , causing Sable to eventually fight back . As the two women brawled , their partners tried to separate them but when Goldust grabbed Sable to restrain her , Mero attacked him . The two men had a match on Raw where both women were handcuffed to the ringposts in order to prevent their brawling , but as the referee was knocked down , Goldust stole the key and unchained Vachon who attacked Sable with make up , painting her face . Goldust then challenged Mero and Sable to a mixed tag match at WrestleMania . After successively beating members of the Nation of Domination until Mark Henry turned on him , Ken Shamrock beat the Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia despite being hit with a foreign object ; The Rock convinced the referee that it was in fact he who suffered an illegal attack and the referee reversed his decision . The following month at , Shamrock capitalised on the in - fighting of the Nation , due to leadership disputes between Faarooq and The Rock , by pinning the champion in a ten - man tag team match . At the end of the inaugural Hell in a Cell match at Badd Blood , just as The Undertaker looked to have won the match against Shawn Michaels , the lights went out and a masked man came to the ring and delivered a tombstone piledriver to the shocked Undertaker . The masked man was revealed to be Kane , Undertaker ' s ( kayfabe ) half - brother and , despite the animosity and the presence of Paul Bearer , Undertaker vowed never to fight his little brother . Before Undertaker ' s casket match with Michaels , D - Generation X claimed Kane had joined them but in fact he came to the ring to assist Undertaker . The alliance was short lived , however , as during the Royal Rumble event Kane came to the ring and locked Undertaker in his casket before setting it ablaze , presuming his brother dead . On the March 2 edition of " Raw is War " , Kane ' s opponent , Steve Austin , was taken out by DX and with nothing to do , Bearer ordered the time keeper to deliver a ten - bell salute for The Undertaker ' s passing , before telling Kane to tombstone him . After he did , more bells were heard to ring , this time signalling Undertaker ' s theme music . The ringing continued much longer than normal , with Bearer denying the possibility of it being the Deadman . Eventually a sarcophagus appeared on the top of the ramp and after lightning struck it , The Undertaker sat up before revealing that he had been through hell and talked to his parents to tell them that he would have to go back on his vow . The week before WrestleMania , Kane came to the ring and began to display similar supernatural powers as his brother , striking the TitanTron with lightning , as well as the announce table , before striking a crew worker with lightning , setting him on fire ; Undertaker was shown on the same episode speaking to his parents ' gravestones , revealing it may have to take the damnation of his soul to reunite the troubled family . In January , Steve Austin won the Royal Rumble while Shawn Michaels retained his WWF Championship , both under the auspices of Mike Tyson from the director ' s box . The following week on " Raw is War " , Vince McMahon revealed that Tyson would be the special guest referee for WrestleMania ' s main event until Austin appeared and gave the finger to Tyson , offering him a fight and proclaiming the wrestling ring to be his , not Tyson ' s . At the ensuing press conference , McMahon announced that due to the explosive situation Tyson ' s role was being changed to that of ring enforcer . On February 2 , in a scheduled match against Road Dogg , D - Generation X stormed the match and tied Austin in the ropes , shouting abuse in his face and rubbing the Championship belt in his face , taunting him with it until Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie came to his aid . The following week Austin stole the belt from Michaels in the hope of baiting him in a singles match but the partnership of D - Generation X and New Age Outlaws continued . This led to a " non - sanctioned " eight - man tag match at , which Michaels declined to participate in and that Austin won by pinning Road Dogg . With WrestleMania drawing closer , on March 2 Tyson appeared once again to be interviewed only for Michaels to interrupt and challenge Tyson to a fight . After both entourages left the ring , the two grabbed at each other until Michaels ripped Tyson ' s shirt revealing a DX T - shirt showing the enforcer ' s degenerate alliance ; later in the evening Austin came out to take place in a match against Kane he saw Triple H on the ramp and walked over to him , only to turn round into Sweet Chin Music which knocked him out , something that occurred again the following week . Also that week , a St . Patrick ' s Day Tuesday broadcast of Raw on March 17 , Austin called out Vince McMahon and attacked him for describing Tyson as ' the baddest man on the planet ' but McMahon would not be goaded into a fight , instead he forced Austin to fight Rocky Maivia the following episode just , before WrestleMania .