{"id":592717,"date":"2026-04-19T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:43:08","slug":"wrestlemania-42-results-paige-returns-after-nicki-bella-injury-wins-womens-tag-team-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592717\/","title":{"rendered":"WrestleMania 42 results: Paige returns after Nicki Bella injury, wins women’s tag team titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first surprise of WrestleMania 42 weekend came at Night 1 in Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas <\/a>when Paige made her WWE return. After an injury to Nicki Bella, sister Brie Bella called on the aid of Paige \u2014 a former WWE Diva’s Champion \u2014 to compete in the Fatal-4-Way Women’s Tag Team Championship match against The Irresistible Forces, Bayley and Lyra Valkyria, and Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss.<\/p>\n

A longtime fan-favorite and the subject of the 2019 film “Fighting with My Family,” Paige hadn’t wrestled in WWE for eight years. Her most recent wrestling appearances came in AEW, where she held the AEW World Championship. Paige’s final WWE work in 2022 saw her function within a general manager role but be unable to wrestle due to a lingering neck injury.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s championship match itself featured the typical chaos you’d expect from a WrestleMania multi-person match. Similar to the IShowSpeed match to start Night 1<\/a>, it was built around Paige’s eventual hot tag. The returning superstar took out a member of each team upon her entry into the match \u2014 a big Fisherman’s Suplex planted Bayley, followed by a nice sequence with Valkyria off a Cross-Body roll-through into a Paige Turner. That was nearly all she wrote, but Bayley broke up the pin.<\/p>\n

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Lash Legend then nailed a big Lash Extension on Valkyria, but her pin was broken up by the nostalgic duo of Paige and Flair, who carry an extensive history and had a great staredown moment before going at it in the middle of the ring. Ultimately, Paige was planted by a Natural Selection.<\/p>\n

To close out the show, Bliss went up high for Twisted Bliss, but paused when Nicki Bella distracted her outside the ring, allowing Paige to get her knees up and hit the Ram-Paige on Bliss for the win, ensuring that Paige’s long-awaited WWE return immediately resulted in championship gold.<\/p>\n

Check out full WrestleMania 42 Night 1 results, highlights and match-by-match updates here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first surprise of WrestleMania 42 weekend came at Night 1 in Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[227137,258560,258564,158005,88,11044,258561,15507,258562,28331,258563],"class_list":{"0":"post-592717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alexa-bliss","9":"tag-brie-bella","10":"tag-championship-match","11":"tag-charlotte-flair","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-lyra-valkyria","14":"tag-nicki-bella","15":"tag-paige","16":"tag-paige-turner","17":"tag-wrestlemania","18":"tag-wwe-diva"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592717","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=592717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}