Randy Savage reunited on-screen with Elizabeth after his match and made marriage plans with her shortly after. In reality, he had been married to Elizabeth for seven years up to this point and divorced her a year later.
During the opening moments of the Tag Team Championship match with the Hart Foundation and the Nasty Boys, a very young Macaulay Culkin appears in the audience, however, he is not immediately recognized by commentator Gorilla Monsoon. A few seconds later, Monsoon does quip of Culkin, "He doesn't want to be Maman, j'ai raté l'avion ! (1990) with the Nasty Boys!"
Moving the event from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (an open air stadium ) to the Los Angeles Sports Arena (an indoor arena) proved to have an unforeseen advantage. Weather conditions that day turned out to be cold and rainy, which might have ruined the event had it been held outdoors, as originally planned.
The Ultimate Warrior would name his "career ending" match against Macho King Randy Savage as one of his favourites.
The event took place just before the end of the Persian Gulf war. The event was moved from Olympic Stadium to the Los Angeles Sports Arena because of slow ticket sales. Vince McMahon made up a story that a sniper might try and take out Robert Remus, who was, at the time, playing an Iraqi sympathizer.