Wrestlemania XII

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Wrestlemania 12 was the twelfth Wrestlemania event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 21st April 1996

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Mr.Perfect defending his WWF Championship against Vader. Vader made his shocking WWF debut at the 1996 Royal Rumble as he had been retired from WCW since Starrcade 1993 due to an injury, Vader cleared house eliminating 12 people and winning the rumble in his debut. Vader has dominated the roster since then and interfered in Perfect's WWF title defense against Undertaker where Perfect managed to perfectplex the huge man, Vader will have his first WWF title match here tonight

Bret Hart kept saying he was gonna help out his little brother Owen win the WWF title from Mr.Perfect at Survivor Series, Owen said that if Bret stepped a foot in the ring during the match he would beat his ass as Owen wanted to win the title all by himself for people to respect him. In the Survivor Series match, Bret showed up anyways but he started chairshotting Owen and made him lose the match, they continued feuding but teaming at the same time as both men had a grudge against Camp Cornette but hated each other at the same time. Jerry Lawler announced that for the first time ever Bret Hart would face Owen Hart on the episode of RAW post 7 week break, they tore the house down as they wrestled for 1 hour and 23 minutes and the match ended with both men falling to the ground exhausted as it finished in a draw. Owen returned 2 weeks later hyped up as he challenged his brother yet again, Vince Mcmahon himself announced that the rematch would be taking place at Wrestlemania but with a 30 minute time limit as he couldn't afford them to waste an hour of Wrestlemania. Bret added the stakes that if someone is beaten under the time limit, they will leave WWF

The Undertaker recently joined Million Dollar Corporation as their co-leader and started targeting Intercontinental champion Diesel who had betrayed MDC a couple of months before, Taker won a NO1 contendership match. On the RAW before Wrestlemania, Undertaker made his intentions clear that he wanted to turn Million Dollar Corporation into his cult as he kicked out Ted Dibiase and chokeslammed him. This match is most likely canceled as Diesel shockingly made a WCW debut at Nitro 100 so no one knows what Taker is gonna do tonight

Speaking about canceled matches, Jim Neidhart returned to WWF and aligned himself with British Bulldog yet again who had recently been kicked out of Camp Cornette, they feuded as it involved Owen and Bret Hart as well and tonight New Foundation are scheduled to face Razor Ramon and Yokozuna but Ramon also made his WCW debut at Nitro 100 so he will not be on this show

Alundra Blayze made her first appearence since Summerslam 1995 as she challenged the new big woman Chyna who debuted as DX's bodyguard, Alundra made her WCW debut at Nitro 100 and dumped the women's title in the garbage so this match is definitely canceled

Ahmed and Bradshaw won the Survivor Series Tournament and will be facing off against tag team champions Shawn Michaels and Hunter Hearst Helmsley who have quickly become the hottest act of the company with their DX shtick. This match now has added actual heat as Ahmed Johnson saw HHH and Shawn Michaels hug Ramon and Diesel right before they went on their limos to go to Nitro and Ahmed has snitched to Vince that DX knew all about The Kliq going to WCW, it's unclear if Vince will punish them in anyway but everyone backstage and in the audience knows about Ahmed's snitching as it leaked

Smoking Gunns' Billy Gunn kept staring at Chyna's ass which lead to a lot of Smoking Gunns losses, Bart Gunn had enough and turned on his longtime partner, DX took him under their arms and claimed he was an ass man and there's nothing wrong with that, Billy will face Bart tonight

Undertaker's first act when he was announced as co-leader of Million Dollar Corporation was to chokeslam and kick Sycho Sid out of MDC. Since Sid couldn't face Taker tonight, he challenged the man who seemed completely brainwashed by Taker: Kama

Goldust humped Zip during a match which pissed off both Bodydonnas who challenged Goldust to a handicap match to knock some sense into him and show him what real men look like

## Results

Other participants: Aldo Montoya, Bart Gunn, Brooklyn Brawler, Butch, Dr.Isaac Yankem, Duke Droese, Eli Blu, Jacob Blu, Luke, Mabel, Mo, Mosh and Thrasher

## Details

* Owen and Bret both become faces in the opening match due to the massive crowd support for both
* As punishment for Hunter and Shawn's curtain call actions, they were scheduled to retain but they lost here in 2 minutes and Hunter was fired afterwards
* Bart Gunn vs Billy Gunn was scheduled to happen but for some reason it was canceled
* Ramon was supposed to be in Holly's spot but had to be replaced. After the match Yokozuna turned on Holly as Camp Cornette was done and Yoko remained the sole member of it
* Instead of Kama, he shows up as his former iteration Papa Shango because he's now part of Undertaker's creepy cult
* Since Chyna vs Alundra was canceled, Chyna came out and challenged any man or woman to a match, Billy came out calling himself a proud ass man as he accepted the challenge
* After that match, Chyna gets him up and slaps his ass as she carries him to the stage
* The Ringmaster eliminated everyone in the ATGMBR except for Mabel who was eliminated by all 13 men except for Ringmaster
* Since Diesel vs Undertaker was canceled, Undertaker came out for an open challenge. Ted Dibiase showed up and talked about Taker taking over his corporation but The Ringmaster remained by Dibiase's side, he will start building up a new and revamped Million Dollar Corporation with The Ringmaster and the newest WWF talent: BRIAN PILLMAN
* Vince Mcmahon suddenly shows up during Goldust vs Bodydonnas as he cancels the match, he says that everyone knows what happened with the IC title and he doesn't need to get into details so the title is vacated and will be put up to grabs in a 7 men ladder match right now
* The former Johnny B.Badd, now renamed Marc Mero debuts for WWF
* The ladder match ends with both Goldust and Mero unhooking the title at the same time as they beat each other up onto backstage
* This Wrestlemania was completely overshadowed by WCW chants
* This show had a lower buyrate than a WCW C PPV: Uncensored

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