The WrestleMania plans for quite a lot of WWE Superstars have been a hot topic following the Royal Rumble Premium Live Event on January 31 in Saudi Arabia, with one in every of the most important matches, each figuratively and literally, that fans are getting enthusiastic about is Brock Lesnar going one-on-one with former WWE NXT Champion Oba Femi.
Femi tied with eventual winner Roman Reigns for essentially the most eliminations within the 2026 match, lasting nearly 40 minutes before eventually being dumped out by Lesnar, who was eliminated almost immediately afterwards by Cody Rhodes and LA Knight. Nonetheless, despite the joy from fans, Dave Meltzer reported on a recent edition of “Wrestling Observer Radio” that the match between Lesnar and Femi is not 100% confirmed for WrestleMania 42.
“That is not 100% by the best way,” Meltzer said. “It needs to be, I agree it needs to be nevertheless it’s not…I had asked a few bunch of matches for Mania and most of them were correct because it turned out, including Roman Reigns and [CM] Punk, although that was very clear obviously. However the one which I used to be told that is not–I mean it could occur, I’m not saying it isn’t happening, I’m just saying that I used to be told that this one’s not 100%, that was the Lesnar and Oba Femi match.”
If the match were to occur, it will be Brock Lesnar’s first WrestleMania appearance since 2023 after missing each WrestleMania 40 and 41 in 2024 and 2025 respectively because of Janel Grant lawsuit through which was specifically named. As for Femi, a match at this yr’s WrestleMania could be the primary for the previous WWE NXT Champion as he was defending the NXT Championship against Trick Williams and Je’Von Evans within the most important event of the Stand and Deliver Premium Live Event over WrestleMania 41 weekend.
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