IT’S the biggest day on the pro wrestling calendar as WWE’s WrestleMania 34 takes place from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
Over 75,000 fans have packed out the stadium for a massive line-up of matches, which is set to last seven hours in total. For Australian fans, it all kicked off at 7am AEST with the two-hour pre-show, followed by a 9am start for the main card.
Ronda Rousey is making her in-ring debut and, in the expected main event, there are questions over whether Brock Lesnar will depart for the UFC with a loss to Roman Reigns.
We’ll have full coverage of every match and big moment here with a live blog below — scroll down to see it all — plus recaps of everything you need to know and insights from Foxsports.com.au reporter Nathan Ryan who is live at the event.
The early news is that John Cena is actually hanging out in the Superdome crowd, as he awaits a response from The Undertaker about a match today. We’re still almost certain the pair will be wrestling later on.
On the pre-show, your winners were Cedric Alexander (new Cruiserweight champion), Matt Hardy (Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal) and Naomi (Women’s Battle Royal).
WWE Universal Championship: Brock Lesnar (champion) vs. Roman Reigns
WWE Championship: AJ Styles (champion) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Ronda Rousey and Kurt Angle vs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon
John Cena vs. The Undertaker (not yet announced)
Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon vs. Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn
WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship: Charlotte Flair (champion) vs. Asuka
WWE Raw Women’s Championship: Alexa Bliss (champion) vs. Nia Jax
WWE Intercontinental Championship: The Miz (champion) vs. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor
WWE United States Championship: Randy Orton (champion) vs. Bobby Roode vs. Jinder Mahal vs. Rusev
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship: Cesaro and Sheamus (champions) vs. Braun Strowman and Mystery Partner
WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship: The Usos, Jimmy and Jey (champions) vs. The New Day, Big E, Kofi Kingston and/or Xavier Woods vs. The Bludgeon Brothers, Harper and Rowan
Pre-show:The WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal
Winner: Naomi
Becky Lynch, Bayley and Sasha Banks of the women got entrances – others came out all as one. That’s more than the men got.
Miss Money in the Bank Carmella was the first one eliminated. A number of NXT women including Australia’s Peyton Royce and New Zealand’s Dakota Kai worked together.
The final six looked to be the Riot Squad against Sasha Banks, Natalya and Bayley.
Bayley and Banks appeared to be the final two but then Naomi came in because she hadn’t been thrown out and won.
And so the Bayley/Banks feud continues with the two betraying each other for no actual success.
Pre-show:Cedric Alexander v Mustafa Ali
Winner and NEW Cruiserweight Champion: Cedric Alexander
A nice little match between these two with some brilliant spots, including a Spanish Fly off the top rope and a reverse hurricanrana into a tornado DDT by Ali.
They went for a bit of the Flair v HBK emotional “I don’t want to hurt you but I have to” at the end, after Alexander got his foot on the ropes after Ali hit an inverted 450 splash. Alexander then got the win with the Lumbar Check.
Pre-show:The Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal
Winner: ‘Woken’ Matt Hardy
Everyone started in the ring with no entrances. Aiden English was the first eliminated. Goldust turned on R-Truth and then dabbed – what a heel.
Wrestlers were slowly thrown out, with Dolph Ziggler constantly almost getting eliminated. Your final five was Ziggler, Kane, Matt Hardy, Mojo Rawley and Baron Corbin.
Kane took out Dolph, then Corbin took out Kane. Bray Wyatt suddenly appeared in the ring and eliminated Rawley before Hardy eliminated Corbin to win it. Wyatt and Hardy then shook hands and posed together.
