{"id":592014,"date":"2026-04-18T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:04:14","slug":"wwe-wrestlemania-42-saturday-start-time-match-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592014\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE WrestleMania 42 Saturday start time, match card"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWE will return to ESPN Unlimited<\/a> in the United States \u2014 and Netflix everywhere else \u2014 tonight (Sat., April 18, 2026) with their biggest premium live event of the year, WrestleMania!<\/p>\n

Night One of WrestleMania 42 will feature four title matches, culminating in the much-discussed Undisputed WWE title match between champion Cody Rhodes and challenger Randy Orton \u2014 with ESPN\u2019s Pat McAfee in his corner.<\/p>\n

The event will get rolling at 3 p.m. Eastern with the free Countdown show, which runs for three hours on WWE and ESPN\u2019s online outlets, among other places. That leads right on into the premium live event at 6 p.m. Eastern, which in the United States starts on ESPN2 with two matches (Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre\u2019s Unsanctioned Match, The Usos & LA Knight vs. IShowSpeed & The Vision), then after an hour moves to ESPN\u2019s new streaming platform<\/a>. Everywhere else (or if you take new Hall of Famer Stephanie McMahon\u2019s advice<\/a>), it\u2019s on Netflix.<\/p>\n

WrestleMania 42 Saturday Match Card<\/p>\n

Undisputed WWE Championship<\/p>\n

Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Randy Orton (w\/ Pat McAfee)<\/p>\n

WWE Women\u2019s World Championship<\/p>\n

Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Liv Morgan<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way<\/p>\n

Nia Jax & Lash Legend (c) vs. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria vs. The Bella Twins<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Intercontinental Championship<\/p>\n

AJ Lee (c) vs. Becky Lynch<\/p>\n

Jacob Fatu vs. Drew McIntyre<\/p>\n

he Usos & LA Knight vs. IShowSpeed, Logan Paul & Austin Theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE will return to ESPN Unlimited in the United States \u2014 and Netflix everywhere else \u2014 tonight (Sat.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,165350,4366,8316,4367],"class_list":{"0":"post-592014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-wrestlemania-42","10":"tag-wwe","11":"tag-wwe-raw","12":"tag-wwe-smackdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}