Wrestlemania XIII

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Wrestlemania 13 was the thirteenth Wrestlemania event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 27th April 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Bret Hart defending his WWF Championship against Shawn Michaels. Bret and Shawn's story is a long one as it dates all the way back to 1992 when Shawn Michaels defeated Bret Hart to become Intercontinental champion and on the same night they formed Four Horsemen along with Lex Luger and Ric Flair, throught the 2 years they were together Shawn and Bret started getting heated with each other with Shawn wanting to beat up Bret as much as he could, at Wrestlemania 9 Shawn Michaels cashed in on Lex Luger and became WWF champion only for Bret Hart to defeat him in the main event and take away his title. Shawn and Bret finally came to blows before Wrestlemania 10 and a 4HM fatal 4 way was announced which yet again Bret won, Bret and Shawn got respect for each other as Shawn went to Smackdown. A Hart Foundation vs DX feud started brewing during 1996, Shawn Michaels ended up winning the Royal Rumble and Bret Hart wanted a title shot against Vader which he got with special guest referee Owen Hart, Owen screwed over Vader as he didn't even tap and gave Bret the title win as Bret joined Hart Foundation. These 2 groups completely hate each other as this Wrestlemania is surrounding that, owner of WWF Vince Mcmahon was behind the screwing of Vader because he hated DX and Shawn Michaels and knew he could count on Bret to beat him up

New Age Outlaws won the tag titles back at Royal Rumble so they will face the Survivor Series tournament tag winners British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart in yet another HF vs DX match

DX's Barry Windham started targeting Hart Foundation's Brian Pillman as they were the only 2 men that didn't have matches, he started stunnering Pillman at any chance he got and tonight they will have a match against each other

At Royal Rumble 1997, Stone Cold turned face and Bret Hart turned heel as Bret refused to let go of the sharpshooter when Austin was passing out and Bret became NO1 contender to the title because of this, Austin got a grudge against Hart Foundation which had already been solidified with his big rival Brian Pillman joining it, Austin wanted any HF man at the show and Vince decided he would be facing Intercontinental champion Owen Hart

Vader hyped up his big streak as he was undefeated since debuting at Royal Rumble 1996(not counting Terry Funk's unsanctioned match since it wasn't a regular match), Undertaker interrupted him saying he had a streak of his own as he has never been defeated at Wrestlemania, Vader said he already had his hands full at this year's Wrestlemania because he was WWF champion but in 1998 if he doesn't have anything better to do, he'll defeat Undertaker's streak. In an episode of RAW, Owen Hart screwed over Vader as he didn't even tap but Owen rang the bell to give Bret the title win. Vince Mcmahon said this technically didn't count as Vader losing either so his streak was still intact so he could go on to Wrestlemania to end Taker's streak, it's streak vs streak tonight

The One Cold Scorpio, Marc Mero and Bob Holly formed a group called Jawbreakers but they didn't amount to anything during 1996 which pissed off Scorpio and Mero who tried really hard to get along but just couldn't, Mero ended up eliminating Scorpio at the Rumble and Scorpio brawled with him. They decided to part ways respectfully but Mero still tried to superkick him which led to another brawl, Vince announced the return of the lightheaviweight title and decided that this heated feud would determine the first champion ever since its failed arrival at Wrestlemania 10

Nation of Domination and Los Boricuas have engaged in a gang war against each other as they kept brawling with each other, Vega said there should only be 1 gang in WWF, black people or latinos so they decided on a 3 on 3 match with the loser's gang leaving WWF

Rocky Maivia defeated Sycho Sid in a regular match on RAW and Sid was pissed beating up the rookie to cheers from the crowd as the babyface was completely hated. Sid mentioned the "die rocky die" chants as Maivia challenged him to a match at Wrestlemania calling him a "big large bitch", Sid accepted saying the chants would become true as Sid would kill him

## Results

Other participants: Animal, Bart Gunn, Bob Holly, Brooklyn Brawler, Hawk, Henry O Godwin, Jose Estrada, Mankind, Mark Henry, Mosh, Phineas I Godwin and Thrasher

## Details

* The gang war is interrupted by the sound of motorcycles and out comes three guys who beat the hell out of everyone, they seem to be another gang
* Sid is just beating the hell out of Maivia when out comes Maivia's dad Rocky Johnson, he takes Sid out and gets his son up but Maivia starts beating up his dad, the crowd boos as Maivia has turned heel and he pins Sid
* The HoF inductees come out, Windham rips his shirt off like Hogan to reveal his gear and makes his entrance, Pillman comes out and looks at all the HoF inductees with disgust as he punches Mike Rotundo and then runs to the ring as Windham is pissed
* Vader's streak is over at 33-1
* Vince Mcmahon comes out before the main event and decides that the referee will be the RETURNING EARL HEBNER(the man who was fired because of the WWF screwjob, this was basically Vince admitting that he was behind it all).
* The main event is full of interference by DX and HF, Shawn has taken out all of HF with a SCM, he goes for the pin but Earl does a really slow count, Bret kicks out at 1, Shawn gets up and hits a SCM on Earl to a big pop which becomes even louder as Austin's theme hits and he comes out, Shawn hits another SCM and Austin counts the pin for Shawn to finally become WWF champion

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