| | Winner | Event | Year | Championship match |
| 1 | Yokozuna | WrestleMania IX | 1993 | Yokozuna defeated Bret Hart to win the WWF Championship, but lost it shortly afterwards to Hulk Hogan in a impromptu match. |
| 2 | Lex Luger | WrestleMania X | 1994 | Luger lost to WWF Champion Yokozuna by disqualification. |
| 2 | Bret Hart | WrestleMania X | 1994 | Hart defeated Yokozuna to win the WWF Championship. |
| 3 | Shawn Michaels | WrestleMania XI | 1995 | Michaels lost to WWF Champion Diesel. |
| 4 | Shawn Michaels | WrestleMania XII | 1996 | Michaels successfully defended his title shot against Owen Hart at In Your House 6. Michaels went on to defeat Bret Hart in a 60-minute Iron Man match to win the WWF Championship. |
| 5 | Stone Cold Steve Austin | WrestleMania 13 | 1997 | Austin was declared the winner after eliminating Bret Hart. Hart had actually thrown Austin out of the ring moments earlier, but the officials at ringside were distracted and did not see it. WWF President Gorilla Monsoon refused to give Austin the WrestleMania title shot due to his actions; Austin and Hart, along with The Undertaker and Vader, would face off in an elimination match at In Your House 13: Final Four. The winner was originally to face the WWF Champion at WrestleMania, but Shawn Michaels relinquished the title just before the event; the match would instead be contested for the vacant WWF Championship, which was won by Hart. Hart would lose the championship to Sycho Sid the night after winning it; Sid would, in turn, lose the title to The Undertaker at WrestleMania. |
| 6 | Stone Cold Steve Austin | WrestleMania XIV | 1998 | Austin defeated Shawn Michaels to win the WWF Championship. |
| 7 | Mr. McMahon | WrestleMania XV | 1999 | The following night on Raw Is War, Mr. McMahon relinquished his opportunity to challenge for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania and promised to name a replacement challenger at his discretion. However, WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels informed him that the rules stated that the runner-up in the Royal Rumble, in this case Stone Cold Steve Austin, would receive the title match in his stead. Austin defended his championship opportunity against McMahon at February's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House pay-per-view, then defeated The Rock in a no disqualification match at WrestleMania. |
| 8 | The Rock | WrestleMania 2000 | 2000 | The Rock was initially declared the winner after last eliminating The Big Show. However, Big Show produced a video replay that showed Rock's feet touch the floor before his; after trading victories in matches for the WrestleMania title match against WWF Champion Triple H, it was decided initially that the three men would face off in a triple threat match for the title; this would lead to a fatal four way match at WrestleMania after Mick Foley was added to the match. Triple H won after last eliminating Rock. |
| 9 | "Stone Cold" Steve Austin | WrestleMania X-Seven | 2001 | Austin defeated The Rock in a No Disqualification match to win the WWF Championship. |
| 10 | Triple H | WrestleMania X8 | 2002 | Triple H lost his WrestleMania X8 title shot to Kurt Angle at No Way Out. The following night on Raw, Triple H was given a rematch by WWF co-owner Ric Flair and defeated Angle to win his title shot back. Triple H went on to defeat Chris Jericho to win the Undisputed WWF Championship at WrestleMania X8. |
| 11 | Brock Lesnar | WrestleMania XIX | 2003 | As a member of the SmackDown! brand, Lesnar earned a match for his own brand's WWE Championship and defeated Kurt Angle to win the title; had Angle gotten counted out or disqualified, he would have lost the title per the stipulation. |
| 12 | Chris Benoit | WrestleMania XX | 2004 | Benoit won the Rumble as a SmackDown! wrestler, but switched to the Raw brand to challenge Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship. Shawn Michaels, who was feuding with Triple H, later added himself to the match to make it a triple threat match. At WrestleMania XX, Benoit defeated Triple H and Michaels to win the title. |
| 13 | Batista | WrestleMania 21 | 2005 | Batista from Raw chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship and defeated Triple H to win the title. |
| 14 | Rey Mysterio | WrestleMania 22 | 2006 | Mysterio from SmackDown! chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship, but lost his title shot to Randy Orton at No Way Out. On the following episode of SmackDown!, General Manager Theodore Long re-added Mysterio to the World Heavyweight Championship match, making it a triple threat match. At WrestleMania 22, Mysterio defeated champion Kurt Angle and Orton to win the title. |
| 15 | The Undertaker | WrestleMania 23 | 2007 | The Undertaker from SmackDown! chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship and defeated Batista to win the title. |
| 16 | John Cena | No Way Out | 2008 | Instead of waiting until WrestleMania XXIV, Cena from Raw used his championship shot at No Way Out to challenge for his own brand's WWE Championship. Cena defeated champion Randy Orton by disqualification, thus Orton retained as titles do not change hands by disqualification unless stipulated. Cena would nevertheless challenge for the title at WrestleMania XXIV in a triple threat match also featuring Triple H, with Orton again retaining. |
| 17 | Randy Orton | WrestleMania 25 | 2009 | Orton won the Rumble as a Raw wrestler, but chose to challenge for SmackDown's WWE Championship, but lost to Triple H; had Triple H gotten counted out or disqualified, he would have lost the title per the stipulation. |
| 18 | Edge | WrestleMania XXVI | 2010 | Edge from SmackDown chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship, but lost to Chris Jericho. |
| 19 | Alberto Del Rio | WrestleMania XXVII | 2011 | Del Rio from SmackDown chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship, but lost to Edge. |
| 20 | Sheamus | WrestleMania XXVIII | 2012 | Sheamus chose to challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship and defeated Daniel Bryan to win the title. |
| 21 | John Cena | WrestleMania 29 | 2013 | Cena chose to challenge for the WWE Championship and successfully defended his title shot against CM Punk on the February 25 episode of Raw. At WrestleMania 29, Cena defeated The Rock to win the title. |
| 22 | Batista | WrestleMania XXX | 2014 | After months of feuding, Triple H agreed to face Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania XXX, with the stipulation that whoever won would be inserted into the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between champion Randy Orton and Rumble winner Batista to make it a triple threat match. Bryan defeated Triple H in the opening match and went on to defeat Orton and Batista to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. |
| 23 | Roman Reigns | WrestleMania 31 | 2015 | Reigns successfully defended his title shot against Daniel Bryan at Fastlane. At WrestleMania 31 during Reigns' match against champion Brock Lesnar, Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract, converting the singles match between Reigns and Lesnar into a triple threat match. Rollins then defeated Lesnar and Reigns in the impromptu triple threat match by pinning Reigns to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. |
| 24 | Randy Orton | WrestleMania 33 | 2017 | As a member of the SmackDown brand, Orton earned a match for his own brand's WWE Championship. After his fellow Wyatt Family member Bray Wyatt won the championship at Elimination Chamber and retained it on the following SmackDown, Orton relinquished his championship opportunity. On the next episode of SmackDown, however, Orton reverted his decision and turned on Wyatt. The following week, Orton defeated AJ Styles, who had become the new number one contender for the title, to re-earn his title shot. At WrestleMania 33, Orton defeated Wyatt to win the title. |
| 25 | Shinsuke Nakamura | WrestleMania 34 | 2018 | Nakamura from SmackDown chose to challenge for his own brand's WWE Championship, but lost to AJ Styles. |
| 26 | Seth Rollins | WrestleMania 35 | 2019 | Rollins from Raw chose to challenge for his own brand's WWE Universal Championship and defeated Brock Lesnar to win the title. |
| 27 | Drew McIntyre | WrestleMania 36 | 2020 | McIntyre from Raw chose to challenge for his own brand's WWE Championship and defeated Brock Lesnar to win the title. |
| 28 | Edge | WrestleMania 37 | 2021 | Edge won as a free agent and chose to challenge for SmackDown's WWE Universal Championship. After a controversial finish in the main event of Fastlane, which saw champion Roman Reigns retain the title against Daniel Bryan in a match where Edge served as the special guest enforcer, a decision was made to add Bryan to the match at WrestleMania, making it a triple threat match. At WrestleMania 37, Reigns defeated Edge and Bryan to retain the Universal Championship. |
| 29 | Brock Lesnar | WrestleMania 38 | 2022 | Lesnar, who came into the Royal Rumble event as Raw's WWE Champion and lost the title to Bobby Lashley, came back in the main event as the surprise entrant in the Rumble match, won the Rumble, and chose to challenge for SmackDown's WWE Universal Championship. Lesnar would go on to win back the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber in an Elimination Chamber match. It was then announced that the match between Lesnar and Universal Champion Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 38 would be a Winner Takes All match for both the WWE and Universal Championships. At WrestleMania 38, Reigns defeated Lesnar to retain his Universal Championship and win Lesnar's WWE Championship, unifying the titles and subsequently becoming recognized as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion. |
| 30 | Cody Rhodes | WrestleMania 39 | 2023 | Rhodes won the Rumble as a Raw wrestler, but due to Roman Reigns simultaneously holding Raw's WWE Championship and SmackDown's WWE Universal Championship as the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, Rhodes earned a match against Reigns for the Undisputed title. At WrestleMania 39, Reigns defeated Rhodes to retain. |
| 31 | Cody Rhodes | WrestleMania XL | 2024 | Rhodes won the Rumble as a Raw wrestler, but chose to challenge for SmackDown's Undisputed WWE Universal Championship and defeated Roman Reigns in a Bloodline Rules match to win the title. |
| 32 | Jey Uso | WrestleMania 41 | 2025 | Uso from Raw chose to challenge for his own brand's World Heavyweight Championship and defeated Gunther to win the title. |
