WWE WrestleMania 42 Night One is all set to get started tonight (Sat., Apr. 18, 2026) from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada at 6:00 pm ET, live on ESPN Unlimited in the United States and on Netflix elsewhere. You should also be able to watch this on pay-per-view (PPV) if your cable provider is carrying the event. Plus, the first hour of the show is being broadcast on ESPN2!
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WWE WrestleMania 42 Night One QUICK RESULTS
WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship match
Cody Rhodes (c) def. Randy Orton
WWE Women’s World Championship match
Liv Morgan def. Stephanie Vaquer (c)GUNTHER def. Seth Rollins
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship match
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship match
Brie Bella & Paige def. Alexa & Charlotte, Bayley & Lyra, and Irresistible ForcesJacob Fatu def. Drew McIntyreLA Knight & the Usos def. IShowSpeed & the Vision
WWE WrestleMania 42 Night One LIVE BLOG & MATCH COVERAGE
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The show opens with a Lin Manuel-Miranda video package putting over the grandeur of WrestleMania.
WrestleMania host John Cena makes his entrance, in a suit and tie to signal that he’s well and truly not here to wrestle.
He gets in the ring and on the mic and thanks the crowd for their reaction. He says the past year has been unpredictable, and from every side– in the ring, in the back, and out in the crowd– very, very vocal. One might say polarizing, and so he sees why he got the hosting gig.
Tonight there’s one thing on everyone’s mind, who is gonna stand up and deliver? And so he welcomes us to WrestleMania!
IShowSpeed & the Vision (Austin Theory & Logan Paul) vs. LA Knight & the Usos (“Big” Jim & “Main Event” Jey Uso)
Usos take the Vision out with a superkick and Knight starts opposite Speed. IShow with a side headlock, LA just stands up and lifts him off the ground, shrug him off, backflip fakeout and Knight drops him! Paul up on the apron, LA clobbers him, but turns around into a bodyslam from IShowSpeed!
Tag to Logan, LA slings him inside, takes him to the corner, stomping a proverbial mudhole, quick tags to the Usos, double back elbow, double elbow drop, Jim with a cover for two! Theory tags in, blasts Uso with a dropkick, takes him into the corner for mounted punches. Vision in control, working the heat segment, Big Jim manages to fight back and lands a corkscrew moonsault, both he and Paul are down!
Tags to Jey and Austin, Uso laying right hands in, pop and lock, crotch chop, Theory ducks the punch, fireman’s carry, off the ropes, spear takes him out… LOGAN BREAKS IT UP! Match breaks down, Speed gets a tijeras on Jim, Knight cuts him off, BFT blocked but Paul gets shoved off the ropes by accident!
Theory yells at IShow for knocking Logan off the apron and drags LA over to him and tells him to hit the ropes, Speed off the ropes, Knight throws Austin into him, capitalizes…
LA Knight & the Usos win by pinfall with the BFT from Knight on Austin Theory.
Post-match, Logan Paul yells at IShowSpeed and lays him out with a right hand, berating him that he had one job and he ruined WrestleMania, before throwing him out of the ring like a sack of garbage.
Paul clears the announce desk and sets Speed atop it before going into the ring, climbing up top, the Usos cut him off, whip across, 1D takes Logan out! LA Knight puts Paul on the desk, the Usos cajole IShowSpeed into heading up top, he climbs on the ringpost… ISHOWSPEED SHOWS A HUGE TURNING FROG SPLASH OFF THE POST AND THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE DESK!
LA Knight, the Usos, and Speed all go back into the ring so Jey can run it back and they can yeet together.
We see various sporting men in the front row.
Drew McIntyre vs. “Samoan Werewolf” Jacob Fatu (Unsanctioned Match)
Fatu nails McIntyre at the base of the ramp, taking him barricade to barricade, throwing him over the timekeeper’s barricade! Jacob pulls a couple tables out from under the ring, slides one inside, pulls out a couple chairs and throws them in too! Putting a boot to Drew to keep him off-balance, Fatu pulls out a red toolbox and dumps it out into the ring before fending McIntyre off with it as he comes over!
Drew trips him up, grabs the toolbox and throws it inside before catapulting Jacob into the steel frame of the ring! McIntyre grabs a cellphone from apparently his brother and films a little before smashing it into Fatu’s face and handing it back! Action back in the ring, Drew grabs an adjustable wrench but Jacob runs over him with a lariat!
Off the ropes, Fatu shrugs off a front kick, lariat and a senton, charging corner lariat, headbutts in the corner! Ode to Rikishi follows it up, the Samoan Werewolf struts, sidesteps a charge, hits a Samoan drop… NOPE! Headbutt cuts him off, back elbow, sidestep and Jacob goes face-first into the post!
Belly-to-belly suplex about throws Fatu out of the ring, Drew off the ropes… TOPE CON GIRO! Back inside, count down, Jacob ducks the Claymore! He rams McIntyre into a chair wedged in the corner, double jump moonsault… NOT ENOUGH! Drew hurting, he grabs a wrench and smashes Fatu’s knee before stabbing him in the head with it!
Setting a pair of chairs up, McIntyre with a standing Falcon Arrow through them… FATU KICKS OUT! Drew yells at referee Dan Engler and steals his belt! Swinging it around, sauntering towards Jacob, snapping it in his hands… FATU CUTS HIM OFF WITH A SUPERKICK! Chair in hand, the Werewolf bends it over his back!
Another chair, now Jacob has the belt and tees off, whipping Drew across his back unmerciful! Fatu grabs the toolbox and turns around… CLAYMORE CONNECTS BUT JACOB MANAGES TO KICK OUT! McIntyre flips out at Engler for the count, shoving him away! Trading right hands, trading chops, trading big paintbrush slaps!
Fatu hammers him to the mat with headbutts, setting a Slim Jim table up in the ring, putting Drew onto it. Jacob climbs, McIntyre wakes up and throws a chair at him to cut him off before shoving him off the post and through the table set up at ringside! Back inside, Fatu is a step ahead, a pair of crescent kicks, he grabs the toolbox… AND SMASHES DREW’S HEAD IN WITH IT! SPRINGBOARD MOONSAULT THROUGH THE TABLE AND IT IS OVER!
Jacob Fatu wins by pinfall with the double jump moonsault through a table.
We check in with the Spanish announce team briefly.
During entrances for the tag title match, Nikki Bella comes out limping on a crutch.
She says she tried really hard to overcome her injury but she couldn’t get medically cleared and she didn’t want to ruin Brie’s WrestleMania moment, so she called in an old friend…
Alexa Bliss & Charlotte Flair vs. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria vs. Brie Bella & Paige vs. the Irresistible Forces (Lash Legend & Nia Jax) (c) (WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship)
Bayley, Bliss, Legend, and Bella to start, Lash clobbers Alexa with a lariat, hip check to Bayley, Jax in, big boot / Samoan drop combo wipes the Role Model out! Nia blocks a tornado DDT from Bliss, shoved into the corner, flash kick, Flair off the top, diving crossbody and she throws Jax to the floor after!
Chops to Brie, Lyra tags in, Charlotte counters a missile dropkick to a powerbomb! Rolling solebutt from Valkyria, reverse roundhous blocked, throw it to Brie, Brie throws it back to take Flair down! Bella with chest kicks to Lyra and Charlotte two-for-one, enzuigiri, boot up, Jax pulls Brie to the floor and throws her into the barricade!
Legend chokeslams Bella onto the apron, big boot for Flair, and Lash is fired up! Charlotte with the boot up, STO backbreaker connects, tag to Alexa! Diving tornado DDT wipes Legend out, Lyra in with a forearm, whip to the corner, elbows to Bliss, tag to Bayley, corner elbow, Demolition Decapitation on Alexa but Lash breaks it up!
Brie charging in, denied the tag, setting Bella up top, Lyra and Alexa climb up with her, Legend gets under them… DOUBLE POWERBOMB FROM LASH! Brie nails her with a missile dropkick and everybody’s down and out! Tags made for everybody except Bella, Nia throwing her weight around… PAIGE TAGS IN!
Elbows and a flash kick for Jax, elbows for Bayley and Charlotte, duck under the Role Model, fisherman suplex connects! Fired up, Legend throws her out to the apron and a camera operator goes down! Paige with the knees in the ropes, up top, diving crossbody, roll through, Lyra hosses her up but Paige slips out… PAIGE TURNER CONNECTS BUT BAYLEY BREAKS IT UP!
Jax with a Samoan drop on Bayley, front kick for Brie, powerbomb lift, Lyra shoves them both to the floor but gets caught by a Lash Extension that Paige and Charlotte break up! Superkick Party, double lariat, and now Paige and Flair share the ring alone! Trading elbows in the middle of the ring, small package gets Natural Selection!
Charlotte drags Paige into the corner, tag to Bliss, Nikki Bella pulls Flair out of the ring and beats her with the crutch! Twisted Bliss, knees up, Paige capitalizes…
Brie Bella & Paige win by pinfall with the capture DDT from Paige on Alexa Bliss, becoming your new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions.
We see Din Djarin and Grogu in the crowd, which seems like it creates some continuity issues, and they toss to a trailer for their movie, which I guess is… a documentary?
AJ Lee (c) vs. Becky Lynch (WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship)
Lynch in, whip reversed, big arm drag from Lee! AJ fakes out in the ropes, passes Becky to the floor, she catches Lee and fallaway slams her into the barricade! Back in, off the top, diving leg drop… NOPE! Another nearfall, smashing AJ’s face into the mat a few times, referee Jessika Carr warns her off.
Becky goes and unties the top turnbuckle, Carr puts it back on and Lynch yells at her the whole way! Back over, Lee with a small package for two, throwing big elbows, windmill punches, whip reversed, knee up in the corner! AJ goes for a tornado DDT, blocked, lariat and a back elbow, clothesline in the ropes, slide under, trip Becky up! Lee goes up top, missile dropkick, cover… STILL NO!
Float over, inverted facelock, blocked, AJ with an Asai DDT! Shining Wizard countered to a powerbomb… SO CLOSE! Manhandle Slam countered to an arm drag, superkick, Black Widow countered by swinging Lee into the turnbuckles! Manhandle Slam connects… NO DEAL! Becky puts boots to her in the corner, Carr admonishes her!
Lynch gets in her face, Jessika shouts and points back and a shoving match breaks out between challenger and official! Carr ducks the lariat, AJ with a Manhandle Slam of her own… LYNCH KICKS OUT! Trading rights hands from their knees and to their feet, Becky hooks her, Lee floats over to the Black Widow and it’s locked in!
Becky inching to the ropes, she gets hands on it, backs into the corner, Lynch backs into the turnbuckle and knocks the pad back off! Knocking referee Jessika Carr aside, she puts AJ into the turnbuckles without Carr noticing…
Becky Lynch wins by pinfall with the Manhandle Slam, becoming your new WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion.
We get an ad for Mortal Kombat II, and yet neither Liu Kang nor Johnny Cage are in attendance?
GUNTHER hot before the bell, back suplex, powerbomb, Rollins falls to the floor! Ring General out after him, Seth blindsides him, hammering strikes against the barricade, over both announce desks, to the steel steps, to the corner barricade! Knees upon knees upon knees, Seth cold throws a chair at him and then a second one!
Double birds at GUNTHER, both men in the ring, trading elbows and we finally get the bell! Trading big boots, Ring General catches him with a short one right in the ropes and the Gojira Clutch is on! Big German suplex, Seth lands on his feet and drops GUNTHER with a boot! Kick to the ribs, double wrist clutch and into the Danielson stomps! Thinking Blackout… GUNTHER COUNTERS WITH A LARIAT!
Clawing at Rollins’ face, overhead elbow staggers him, trading chops into the corner, forehead to forehead, trading palm strikes but Seth collapses under the ropes! GUNTHER with a giant step, back and forth, Rollins gets him up… CORNER TO CORNER BUCKLE BOMB! He ducks the Blackout, big German suplex, another one, a third!
Both men down and out, Seth taking a nice breather, GUNTHER with desperate upkicks and Rollins offers a forearm in return. Headbutt from the Ring General, another upkick, trading chops, GUNTHER gets him in the ropes but Seth explodes out with chops! Machine gun chops in the corner, referee Chad Patton backs him off, GUNTHER with a Tenryu Powerbomb… SO CLOSE!
Off the ropes, big lariat from the Ring General, Seth floats over another one, underhooks, back body drop counters! Superkick from Rollins, Jumbo knee, underhooks, bridging into a pin to counter but Seth hangs onto the underhooks and rolls around for the Pedigree! Down in the corner, fired up… BLACKOUT BUT GUNTHER KICKS OUT!
Up top, perched, nobody home, go-behind, O’Connor roll, GUNTHER kicks out and grabs the Gojira Clutch! Rollins gets to his feet, breaks looks, rolling elbow connects! Another rolling elbow, GUNTHER counters a third with a lariat! Up top, Seth climbs up with him, superplex, roll through to the Falcon Arrow… STILL NO!
Rollins has a sleeper hold! GUNTHER struggling, flagging, failing, but he gets a foot on the ropes! Seth to his feet, fired up, off the ropes, suicide dive connects! Back inside, another dive, a third, the Ring General counters… APRON POWERBOMB! POWERBOMB INTO THE SPANISH ANNOUNCE DESK AND IT DOESN’T BUDGE AN INCH!
Up on the desk, Seth floats over, underhooks… PEDIGREE ON THE TABLE! Rollins clears the English announce desk, climbs on top of it, lines GUNTHER up…TABLE TO TABLE BLACKOUT! Seth is fired up… BUT BRON BREAKKER IS BACK AND HE SPEARS SETH IN HALF! He throws Rollins into the ring, GUNTHER crawls back into the ring, grabs Seth from behind, Gojira Clutch applied!
He traps Rollins’ right arm with his leg, wrenches it in, Seth’s will is steel but his body is flesh, and the flesh is stronger…
GUNTHER wins by referee stoppage with the Gojira Clutch.
Post-match, Bron comes screaming back down the ramp to spear the life out of Seth Rollins again! He grabs him by the throat and tells him he should have put him down while he had the chance!
Paul Heyman appears at the top of the ramp and embraces Bron Breakker on his way out.
We get a recap of Paige and Brie Bella winning the tag titles, as called by various international announce teams.
Now is the time when this year’s Hall of Fame class come out to the stage, with AJ Styles and Stephanie McMahon getting their own entrances at the end of the group.
We get a potted history of CM Punk’s wrestling career.
Liv Morgan vs. Stephanie Vaquer (c) (WWE Women’s World Championship)
Vaquer double legs her right into grounded punches! Morgan rolls her over, shots of her own, Stephanie returns the favor, Liv rolls to the floor and the champion gives chase and throws her into the barricade and then back inside! Back inside, corner elbow, corner double knees, up top, Morgan cuts her off, sunset flip Tenryu Powerbomb… NOPE!
Liv looking for the Three Amigos, she gets all three of them and stands up with a shimmy! Glimmering Warlock as Vaquer gets to her feet, Morgan off the top, knees up on the frog splash! Back suplex from the champion, Devil’s Kiss follows it up, cover for two! Liv floats over, lungblower connects, vicious palm strikes to Vaquer’s neck, Stephanie gets a victory roll pin to counter for two!
Butterfly backbreaker, no deal! Codebreaker from Morgan, Vaquer rolls under a lariat and hits Oblivion on Liv… NO DEAL! Roxanne! Perez distracts referee Eddie Orengo, Raquel Rodriguez with the cheap shot, Morgan with Oblivion… BUT VAQUER KICKS OUT! Stephanie takes care of Perez and Rodriguez, low-bridges Liv so she accidentally dives on her own friends! VAQUER TAKES ‘EM OUT WITH A PLANCHA BUT MORGAN THROWS HER INTO THE STEPS AFTER!
Back inside, off the top, diving Codebreaker sets it up…
Liv Morgan wins by pinfall with Oblivion, becoming your new WWE Women’s World Champion.
Post-match, Dominik Mysterio runs down to give Liv Morgan her new title belt and hold her up while she holds it high. Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne! Perez join them to celebrate in the ring.
John Cena is back in the ring to another host segment.
He talks up the night so far and announces attendance at 50, 816 people.
She gets in the ring and on the mic.
She says you can’t spell WrestleMania without EST and she knows it’s been a long time since she’s been out here and she thanks us for the love and support. And you can’t have WrestleMania without a few surprises, and we need to add one more to the guest list. She unzips her cloak made of sparkly blue roses and reveals that her bodysuit has a big cutout in the middle.
The EST is having a baby! Cena thanks her for letting our family share this moment with hers, and corrects the attendance to 50,817.
We get the Street Fighter trailer as well.
We get a hype reel for WrestleMania 43 next year, still set to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Pat McAfee of course takes over as Randy Orton’s special guest ring announcer and jumps Cody Rhodes before the bell! Randy joins in but Rhodes manages to shrug them off, puts Orton into the post and lays Pat out with Cross Rhodes! Cody takes McAfee to the floor and puts him on the announce desk! Jelly Roll is here and tells him he’s got it, climbs up on the other desk… JELLY ROLL DROPS AN ELBOW THAT PUTS PAT MCAFEE THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE DESK!
Roll tells Cody to go give ‘em the fight they paid to see! Medics bring a stretcher down and load Pat onto it and he valiantly gives the crowd the bird as he’s wheeled up the ramp and we finally gear up to start the match.
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Randy Orton (WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship)
Finally we get a bell and Orton and Rhodes square up. Collar and elbow, struggling around the ring, stalemate and they break. Circling, back to the lockup, side headlock from Randy, wrenching it in, shot off, shoulder block, back to the headlock, reversed, shot off, drop down, shoulder block again takes Cody down!
To the corner, Orton with an uppercut, whip across, up and over, off the ropes, slide under, drop down slap, Cody pops up, snap scoop powerslam connects! Springboard, Randy catches him and hits the back-to-back backbreaker but gets back to his feet staggering into the corner and seemingly nauseous!
Orton with an eyepoke, snapmare, reverse chinlock, Rhodes counters with a slam and Randy again comes up hurting and rolls to the floor, hand to his back and staggering into the barricade! Cutting Cody off with a knee when he comes over, throwing him inside, back in, Rhodes cuts him off with a front kick and rams him into the turnbuckles!
Wristlock takedown and Cody puts him in a half-crab to work the back! Fishhooking Orton as he pulls him back to his feet, shots to the kidney, the Viper in agony in the corneer, arm wringer into a hammer throw and Randy takes the turnbuckles hard on his spine and collapses to the floor! Cody targeting the back on the floor, throwing him back inside, cover for one and Rhodes puts him in the bear hug! I can hardly bear it!
Knees to the spine, back to the bear hug! Rebound into an elbow to the kidneys, snap suplex, up top but Randy chops his legs out from under him! Climbing up with him, jockeying for position, Orton hooks him… A SUPERPLEX WAS A BAD IDEA! Randy grimacing in pain, back on his feet, snap scoop powerslam connects!
Throwing Cody out to the apron, hanging DDT connects! Rhodes passes him to the floor, off the ropes, Orton clobbers him with an elbow to stop the dive! Back suplex to the announce desk, Cody recovers and puts Randy into the ringpost! Back inside, Orton bleeding from the forehead and Rhodes punches the wound!
The Viper staggering around the ring, Cody putting boots to him, Garvin Stomp, the crowd boos Rhodes and he gives them a look like “what am I doing wrong here?” before resuming punches, Beautiful Disaster connects… NOT ENOUGH! Rhodes wipes Randy’s blood on his chest, drawing him up, he passes Orton to the apron but the Viper goes limp!
Cody’s hearing voices, he pulls Randy up and hits his own hanging DDT! Rhodes drops to his knees and goes to that special place! Orton sidesteps him into the turnbuckles and hits Cross Rhodes but Cody kicks out! Randy to that special place, waiting for Rhodes to get to his feet, he’s got the RKO scouted, backslide for two! CODY HITS AN RKO OF HIS OWN FOR A NEARFALL!
Orton to the floor, Rhodes out after him and he hits the back suplex on the announce desk! Back inside, Cody laying in wait, Randy pops up… RHODES KICKS OUT OF THE RKO! Orton back to his feet first, pulling Cody up, trading punches in the middle of the ring, Rhodes pokes him in the eye! RANDY HITS THE RKO ON REFEREE CHARLES ROBINSON!
Cody is bleeding from the eye now, he catches the low blow and kicks Randy low himself! Double jump for the Cody Cutter… ORTON COUNTERS WITH THE RKO BUT ROBINSON IS STILL DOWN! PAT MCAFEE RUNS DOWN IN A NECK BRACE A REFEREE SHIRT AND HE MAKES THE COUNT BUT CODY KICKS OUT! “Pat you suck!” chants go up,Robinson wakes up… RANDY RKOS PAT! CODY HITS CROSS RHODES! CHARLES ROBINSON COUNTS! IT’S OVER!
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes wins by pinfall with Cross Rhodes, retaining the WWE Undisputed Men’s Championship.
Post-match, Cody holds the title high… AND RANDY GRABS THE BELT AND CLOBBERS HIM WITH IT! Cody’s blond hair turned crimson, he’s on his hands and knees as Orton throws the belt away… AND PUNTS CODY!
That’s the show, folks.