WRESTLEMANIA XLII - 4/18 & 4/19/2025

[Dolfan in NYC]

 

[zendragon]

The real wrestling fans are the Millennials/Zoomers funning the socials and The Vault. you love to see it.

[Dolfan in NYC]

Card updated with announced days now.  

Only questions left are:  1) How does the joshi match happen (triple threat or singles), 2) Nikki's ankle, and 3) Liv's possible concussion. 

[The Natural]

34 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Card updated with announced days now.  

Only questions left are:  1) How does the joshi match happen (triple threat or singles), 2) Nikki's ankle, and 3) Liv's possible concussion. 

1) Singles.

2) Nikki makes it.

3) Liv makes it. If it was the same week, cutting it real close so no.

Edited April 7 by The Natural

[mystman]

23 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Card updated with announced days now.  

Only questions left are:  1) How does the joshi match happen (triple threat or singles)

Oh, you sweet child of summer....

[The Natural]

Saturday, Night 1:

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton.

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan.

Seth Rollins vs. Gunther.

WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee vs. Becky Lynch.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nia Jax/Lash Legend vs. Charlotte Flair/Alexa Bliss vs. The Bella Twins vs. Bayley/Lyra Valkyria.

Unsanctioned match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu.

Logan Paul/Austin Theory/IShowSpeed vs. The Usos/LA Knight.

Sunday, Night 2:

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley.

Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio.

WWE United States Champion Sami Zayn vs. Trick Williams.

Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi.

Ladder match: WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Dragon Lee vs. Rusev vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio.

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Defiantly more into Night 2 than Night 1. Night 2 will have either Asuka vs. Iyo Sky or Asuka vs. Iyo Sky vs. Kairi Sane.

Edited April 7 by The Natural

[The Natural]

12 minutes ago, The Natural said:

Saturday, Night 1:

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton.

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan.

Seth Rollins vs. Gunther.

WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee vs. Becky Lynch.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nia Jax/Lash Legend vs. Charlotte Flair/Alexa Bliss vs. The Bella Twins vs. Bayley/Lyra Valkyria.

Unsanctioned match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu.

Logan Paul/Austin Theory/IShowSpeed vs. The Usos/LA Knight.

Sunday, Night 2:

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley.

Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio.

WWE United States Champion Sami Zayn vs. Trick Williams.

Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi.

Ladder match: WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Dragon Lee vs. Rusev vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio.

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Defiantly more into Night 2 than Night 1. Night 2 will have either Asuka vs. Iyo Sky or Asuka vs. Iyo Sky vs. Kairi Sane.

I've got a feeling Carmello Hayes and Ilja Dragunov are shit out of luck and that's fucking criminal. Add them into Zayn vs. Williams.

[hammerva]

If you want to see Iyo vs Asuka (which I do),  I would assume they will be on Smackdown Friday.   The Smackdown before WM is basically their pre-show now with the Andre Battle Royal.  

[The Natural]

I hope Iyo Sky is wrestling at WrestleMania, be a disgrace if she doesn't.

[ChesterCopperpot]

ESPN 2 is airing the Drew vs Jacob and Usos/Knight vs Vision/Speed match

ESPN is airing Brock/Oba and the IC Ladder match on Sunday night 

[SturmCRF]

With the proviso that I haven't made myself sit through any of the buildup, most of those matches are fairly appealing. Having a key part of both main event storylines be that not enough people want to pay a thousand dollars to see them is fairly deranged even by their standards, but it could be a good time with my brain switched firmly off.

[Dolfan in NYC]

6 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

Card updated with announced days now.  

Only questions left are:  1) How does the joshi match happen (triple threat or singles), 2) Nikki's ankle, and 3) Liv's possible concussion. 

So, apparently 1 and 2 are related.  

If Nikki is not cleared, the Kabuki's will take their place.   If she is cleared Iyo / Asuka will happen.   

 

[username]

6 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

If Nikki is not cleared, the Kabuki's will take their place.   If she is cleared Iyo / Asuka will happen.   

Read that as well and it feels insane, the tag title match could just have three teams if need be.

[The Natural]

5 hours ago, username said:

Read that as well and it feels insane, the tag title match could just have three teams if need be.

That's what I'd do.

[The Natural]

As it stands the two women's world champions who walked into WrestleMania 41 and retained aren't in a match yet, Iyo Sky and Tiffany Stratton. Hell of a fall that. Iyo Sky must be on.

[The Natural]

On 4/7/2026 at 3:37 PM, The Natural said:

Saturday, Night 1:

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton.

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan.

Seth Rollins vs. Gunther.

WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee vs. Becky Lynch.

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Nia Jax/Lash Legend vs. Charlotte Flair/Alexa Bliss vs. The Bella Twins vs. Bayley/Lyra Valkyria.

Unsanctioned match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu.

Logan Paul/Austin Theory/IShowSpeed vs. The Usos/LA Knight.

Sunday, Night 2:

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

WWE Women’s Champion Jade Cargill vs. Rhea Ripley.

Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio.

WWE United States Champion Sami Zayn vs. Trick Williams.

Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi.

Ladder match: WWE Intercontinental Champion Penta vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Dragon Lee vs. Rusev vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio.

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Defiantly more into Night 2 than Night 1. Night 2 will have either Asuka vs. Iyo Sky or Asuka vs. Iyo Sky vs. Kairi Sane.

Bolded the matches I'm into.

Edited April 9 by The Natural

[stuntmanc]

I'm currently looking forward to

Oba/Brock, Fatu/Drew, Rollins/Gunter Liv/Vaquer and Balor/Dom, though with Balor/Dom, if Balor is bringing the Demon back, i dont think it should even be close to a competitive match and it should be a glorified squash, but that's just me.

The rest of the card is meh and really underwhelming on all fronts.

[Eivion]

Seth/Gunther, Sami/Trick, Vaquer/Liv, Drew/Jacob, & Finn/Dom are what interest me the most as actual matches.

I'm mostly curious to see how Oba/Brock, Roman/Punk, and Rhea/Jade play out booking wise. I feel like any of them could be good matches, but that mostly belies on directions taken during the matches themselves alongside end result.

I think the rest will be fine, maybe even good. They just don't interest me normally. Most are either standard multi-person matches without any personal stakes, or people I don't care much for (Cody, AJ, Vision).

[The Natural]

16 hours ago, stuntmanc said:

I'm currently looking forward to

Oba/Brock, Fatu/Drew, Rollins/Gunter Liv/Vaquer and Balor/Dom, though with Balor/Dom, if Balor is bringing the Demon back, i dont think it should even be close to a competitive match and it should be a glorified squash, but that's just me.

The rest of the card is meh and really underwhelming on all fronts.

 

3 hours ago, Eivion said:

Seth/Gunther, Sami/Trick, Vaquer/Liv, Drew/Jacob, & Finn/Dom are what interest me the most as actual matches.

I'm mostly curious to see how Oba/Brock, Roman/Punk, and Rhea/Jade play out booking wise. I feel like any of them could be good matches, but that mostly belies on directions taken during the matches themselves alongside end result.

I think the rest will be fine, maybe even good. They just don't interest me normally. Most are either standard multi-person matches without any personal stakes, or people I don't care much for (Cody, AJ, Vision).

My matches I'm looking forward to:

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan.

Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi.

Seth Rollins vs. Gunther.

Unsanctioned match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu.

WWE United States Champion Sami Zayn vs. Trick Williams.

Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio.

Edited April 9 by The Natural

[Eivion]

1 hour ago, The Natural said:

 

My matches I'm looking forward to:

World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns.

Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan.

Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi.

Seth Rollins vs. Gunther.

Unsanctioned match: Drew McIntyre vs. Jacob Fatu.

WWE United States Champion Sami Zayn vs. Trick Williams.

Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio.

I knew a match was missing from mine. Sami/Trick also has my interest though I would have preferred a triple threat for once if only to keep in Hayes. Still, Hayes/Trick is something I can slightly understand them wanting to save for post Mania since here is plenty of history to build off of.

[The Natural]

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Oh Nikki's ankle must be worse than we thought... 

Kit Wilson has challenged Danhausen to Handicap Match (with The Miz) at Mania.   

If it happens, going from being unemployed to on the Mania main card in 6 weeks is... impressive. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Reports are Jelly Roll is going to be in Cody's corner for the title match.  Because, you know, when you think about the needs of the most hardcore of hardcore fans who are spending thousands of dollars to see your biggest show... who already gave you constructive feedback about the punter being involved...  you know... you turn to a mid-level country star. 

[Dolfan in NYC]