List of WrestleMania VI Storylines and Feuds

Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior — The Ultimate Challenge

Main Event Build — Royal Rumble to WrestleMania

The build to WrestleMania VI's main event was one of the most carefully constructed in WWF history — precisely because it needed to create genuine competitive tension between two beloved fan favourites without relying on the traditional heel-versus-babyface formula. The seeds were planted at the 1990 Royal Rumble in Orlando, Florida on January 21, when both Hogan and Warrior found themselves as the final two participants in the Rumble match. The two men tested each other with shoulder tackles, neither able to knock the other down. When they ran the ropes and collided with simultaneous clotheslines, both crashed to the mat simultaneously — and were both eliminated over the top rope together. The Royal Rumble was declared a tie. The post-Rumble confrontation escalated when Mr. Perfect and The Genius attacked both men. Warrior accidentally struck Hogan with a clothesline while cleaning house, and Hogan — lying on the mat, hand at his throat — refused Warrior's offered help. The tension was born. On February 3, 1990, Hogan appeared on WWF programming and issued his 'Ultimate Challenge' — declaring he needed to know whether Hulkamania or the Power of the Warrior was the strongest force in the WWF, and putting his WWF Championship on the line against Warrior's Intercontinental title. WWF President Jack Tunney officially announced the match on February 10 and added the Winner Takes All stipulation on February 24. The build maintained the respectful tension between the two — they even saved each other from Earthquake attacks in the weeks before WM6 — while the promotional machine created the compelling question: who would walk out with both titles?

Demolition vs. The Colossal Connection — Tag Team Championship Rematch

WWF Tag Team Championship Programme

Demolition had lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to the Brain Busters — Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard — at SummerSlam 1989. The Brain Busters promptly departed the WWF, leaving a title vacancy that was resolved through a tournament. The Colossal Connection — André the Giant and Haku, managed by Bobby Heenan — won the tournament to become new champions. Demolition returned as the credible babyface challengers with a genuine claim to reclaim what they viewed as their championships. By 1990, André's physical deterioration was visible — he could barely move at full speed — but his enormous physical presence and Haku's athletic versatility made The Colossal Connection a credible and intimidating champion team. The WrestleMania VI championship match was the planned blow-off of the programme.

Brutus Beefcake vs. Mr. Perfect — The Perfect Record Challenge

Babyface Breaks the Unbeaten Streak

Mr. Perfect's character in the WWF was built on one foundational premise: he had never lost. Every match on national WWF television had been won by Curt Hennig's Perfection — his magnificent pre-match vignettes showed him performing every sport with flawless ability, and his WWF in-ring record matched the character's boast. The challenge of finding someone to end that record on the WrestleMania stage naturally fell to the third most popular babyface in the company — Brutus Beefcake — setting up a match that gave Beefcake the biggest singles victory of his WWF career and gave Mr. Perfect his most significant character setback.

Ted DiBiase vs. Jake Roberts — 11-Month War Over the Million Dollar Belt

The Stolen Championship Programme

The DiBiase versus Roberts feud was one of the WWF's longest and most creatively rich programmes of 1989-90. DiBiase had paid Virgil to steal Roberts' python Damien as a power play. Roberts retaliated by stealing DiBiase's self-created Million Dollar Championship — a bejewelled belt DiBiase had commissioned — and placing it inside Damien's bag. The psychological warfare between the two men was masterful: DiBiase's materialistic obsession with his belt against Roberts' cold-blooded willingness to use psychological terror as a weapon. The WrestleMania VI blow-off match stipulated that if DiBiase won, he would reclaim the Million Dollar Belt. Despite the count-out victory, Roberts' post-match DDT and $100 bill distribution to ringside fans gave the crowd the satisfaction they needed.

Randy Savage and Sherri vs. Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire — The Love Triangle Sub-Plot

Miss Elizabeth's Silent Return

The mixed tag feud between 'Macho King' Randy Savage — who had replaced Miss Elizabeth with the scheming 'Queen' Sensational Sherri following the Mega Powers' WrestleMania V dissolution — and the cheerful pairing of Dusty Rhodes and Sapphire was primarily notable for the Elizabeth sub-plot it contained. Elizabeth had been written off WWF television following WM5 and her appearance at WM6 as a supporter of Dusty and Sapphire was her unexpected return. Her emotional presence at ringside — representing everything warm and genuine that Savage had abandoned in his partnership with Sherri — planted the seeds for one of WrestleMania VII's most beloved moments: the Savage and Elizabeth reunion.

Rick Martel vs. Koko B. Ware — Model vs. Birdman

New Heel Character Showcase

Rick Martel and Koko B. Ware's WrestleMania VI match was rooted in the broader context of Martel's character transition. Martel had been one half of Strike Force with Tito Santana — a beloved fan-favourite tag team that had held the WWF Tag Team Championship. When Strike Force dissolved, Martel repackaged himself as 'The Model' — a vain, arrogant heel who used a small bottle of his signature cologne Arrogance to spray in opponents' eyes and mock everyone around him as aesthetically inferior. The WrestleMania match against Koko B. Ware was The Model's coming-out party on the grandest stage available.