{"id":316123,"date":"2026-04-09T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=316123"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:52:10","slug":"report-match-to-open-night-2-of-wwe-wrestlemania-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/report-match-to-open-night-2-of-wwe-wrestlemania-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Match To Open Night 2 Of WWE WrestleMania 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_106\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>With WWE WrestleMania 42 just weeks away, the anticipation is high. Despite the lackluster construct and protected booking, fans are excited for the Grandest Stage of Them All. The match card for each nights was revealed, however the order by which they&#8217;ll happen is yet unknown. Nevertheless, there was a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlePurists\/status\/2042290467262386408?s=20\">WrestleVotes<\/a>, <strong><em>\u201cOba Femi vs Brock Lesnar is planned to open Night 2 of WrestleMania. ESPN pushed for Brock Lesnar to be included in an element of the package of matches to be included on the normal ESPN platforms, which WWE was glad to do.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Night #2 of WWE WrestleMania 42 may even feature the next matches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World Heavyweight Championship:<\/strong>\u00a0CM Punk (c) vs. Roman Reigns<\/li>\n<li>Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi<\/li>\n<li><strong>WWE Women\u2019s Championship:<\/strong>\u00a0Jade Cargill (c) vs. Rhea Ripley<\/li>\n<li>Finn Balor vs. Dominik Mysterio<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match:<\/strong>\u00a0PENTA (c) vs. Je\u2019Von Evans vs. Rusev vs. Dragon Lee vs. JD McDonagh vs. Rey Mysterio<\/li>\n<li><strong>United States Championship:<\/strong>\u00a0Sami Zayn (c) vs. Trick Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oba Femi vs Brock Lesnar is planned to open Night 2 of WrestleMania.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN pushed for Brock Lesnar to be included in an element of the package of matches to be included on the normal ESPN platforms, which WWE was glad to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestleVotes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WrestleVotes<\/a> Radio on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightfulSelect?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FightfulSelect<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HbVpzOaOq\">pic.twitter.com\/4HbVpzOaOq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WrestlePurists (@WrestlePurists) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WrestlePurists\/status\/2042290467262386408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With WWE WrestleMania 42 just weeks away, the anticipation is high. Despite the lackluster construct and protected booking, fans are excited for the Grandest Stage of Them All. The match card for each nights was revealed, however the order by which they&#8217;ll happen is yet unknown. Nevertheless, there was a recent report. Based on WrestleVotes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[2064,1134,1574,2185,9418,6221],"class_list":["post-316123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-match","tag-night","tag-open","tag-report","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316126,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316123\/revisions\/316126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}