How to Watch ‘WrestleMania 40’ Night 1 and 2: Full Match Card, Where to Stream

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Can Cody Rhodes finally finish his story? He’ll have to get through The Rock first.

Rhodes’s pursuit of WWE’s undisputed universal championship has taken longer than most fans expected. From the moment he left the company he helped found, AEW, and returned to WWE in 2022, Rhodes made it clear that his goal was to win the title that his father, the great Dusty Rhodes, never got to hold. But there were plenty of bumps in the road. Just two months after his return, Rhodes tore a pectoral muscle on the eve of his Hell in a Cell match against Seth Rollins. Rhodes wrestled through the injury against Rollins, with the entire right side of his chest covered in a deep purple bruise, but he then underwent surgery to repair the injury and was sidelined for more than six months.

Rhodes made his return in January 2023, winning the Royal Rumble to earn a championship match at WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles. The stage was set for him to dethrone Roman Reigns and hoist that elusive championship. But he didn’t. In a result that shocked almost everyone, Reigns won the match and retained the title.

Now Rhodes has another chance to vanquish Reigns—but there’s one more hurdle in the way. Rhodes and Reigns will square off in the main event of the second night of WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia on Sunday. But first, they’ll meet in a tag team match on Saturday. Rhodes will team with Rollins and Reigns will team with The Rock. If Rhodes’s team wins on Saturday, all members of Reigns’s Bloodline faction will be banned from ringside on Sunday. If Reigns’s team wins, Sunday’s match will be contested under “Bloodline rules” (meaning there are no rules).

In addition to the two matches featuring Rhodes and Reigns, there are 11 other bouts scheduled for the two-night event. Highlights include brothers Jey and Jimmy Uso squaring off against each other, a six-team ladder match for the tag team championship, the return of Logan Paul and an opportunity for Gunther to extend his record-long reign with the intercontinental championship.

Night 1 card

  • Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill and Naomi vs. Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai, Asuka and Kairi Sane)
  • Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee) vs. Santos Escobar and "Dirty" Dominik Mysterio
  • Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso
  • Undisputed tag team championship match (six-team ladder match): The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) (c) vs. #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) vs. The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) vs. The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) vs. A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) vs. New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate)
  • Women’s world championship match: Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Becky Lynch
  • Intercontinental championship match: Gunther (c) vs. Sami Zayn
  • Main event: The Bloodline (The Rock and Roman Reigns) vs. Cody Rhodes and Seth “Freakin” Rollins

Night 2 card

  • LA Knight vs. AJ Styles
  • Six-man tag team Philadelphia street fight: The Pride (Bobby Lashley, Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford) (with B-Fab) vs. The Final Testament (Karrion Kross, Akam and Rezar) (with Scarlett and Paul Ellering)
  • United States championship match: Logan Paul (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens
  • Women’s championship match: Iyo Sky (c) vs. Bayley
  • World heavyweight championship match: Seth “Freakin” Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre
  • Undisputed WWE universal championship match: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Cody Rhodes

How to watch

Coverage of both nights will begin at 7 p.m. ET, with the main card beginning at 8 p.m. ET. The only way to watch in the United States is on Peacock. Everywhere else in the world, the event will stream on the WWE Network.

The WrestleMania Countdown preshow will begin at 5 p.m. ET both nights, featuring commentary from CM Punk, Pat McAfee, Big E, Michael Cole, Wade Barrett and Jackie Redmond.


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Dan Gartland
DAN GARTLAND

Dan Gartland is the writer and editor of Sports Illustrated’s flagship daily newsletter, SI:AM, covering everything an educated sports fan needs to know. He joined the SI staff in 2014, having previously been published on Deadspin and Slate. Gartland, a graduate of Fordham University, is a former Sports Jeopardy! champion (Season 1, Episode 5).