WWE: WrestleMania X

"The New Generation" Begins
A couple of notes here in that this is the exact same version of this event taken from the WrestleMania Anthology set meaning that all references to "WWF" & various music has been changed to due the rights expiring but there is no blurring of the WWF logo since this event happened before the "Attitude Era."

"Ten Years In The Making" marked the 10th edition (not anniversary like they promoted it) of WrestleMania returning home to Madison Square Garden & was the beginning of a new era because many of the past long term names attached with not just WrestleMania but WWE as a company were either retired from in-ring competition or gone completely including Hulk Hogan, Gene Okerland, Ted Dibiase, Bobby Heenan, ect. making room for a "New Generation" of atheltes to take the spotlight. Celebrities include Jenny Garth, Donnie Walberg, Rhonda Sheer, Burt Reynolds, "President Clinton," President Of The Hair Club For Men Sy Sperling who debuted the "new" Howard Finkel, and Little...

Good Matches, But No "Future In It"
Smack dab in the middle of the "Bret Hart Era" of the WWF, Wrestlemania X manages to pull off a rare feat: despite having very few wrestlers who ended up having truly bright futures for the company, this event features some pretty good technical matches.

My personal highlights included...

-The Hart brothers (Bret & Owen) square of in a passionate technical battle. Maybe the best match of the whole card right from the get-go.
-Doink and Dink...just fun for the pure comedy standpoint!
-Both matches featuring Yokozuna, who may have been the best "big man" in the history of WWF (easily to that point).
-Randy Savage and Crush put on a pretty good show (a precursor of many "No Holds Barred" matches to come).
-The celebrated inaugural ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon. It looks "tame" by today's standards, but this was the match that started it all.

Despite those great matches, however, the problem with this event is the...



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