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WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Review: Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton

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🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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John Pollock & Wai Ting review WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 featuring Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton for the Undisputed WWE Championship.

They also discuss ESPN reporter Andreas Hale being denied press access to WrestleMania.

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WWE WrestleMania 42: Night 1

April 18, 2026

Allegiant Stadium

Las Vegas, Nevada

  • Undisputed WWE Championship: Cody Rhodes © vs. Randy Orton (w/ Pat McAfee)
  • Seth Rollins vs. Gunther
  • Women’s World Championship: Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan
  • Women’s Intercontinental Championship: AJ Lee © vs. Becky Lynch
  • Women’s Tag Team Championship: Nia Jax & Lash Legend © vs. Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley & Lyra Valkyria vs. Nikki & Brie Bella
  • Unsanctioned Match: Jacob Fatu vs. Drew McIntyre
  • Logan Paul, Austin Theory & IShowSpeed vs. The Usos & LA Knight

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0:00.0

And welcome, everybody, to our review of the first night of WrestleMania 42, presented by many, many, many sponsors, many contributing partners that all brought you this WrestleMania experience.

0:16.4

I did enjoy some of these eight-minute commercial breaks we got in between ads.

0:23.6

They were quite something on this undercard.

0:27.0

How are you, way?

0:27.9

You know, I can't really say I can even comment on that so much anymore because I just,

0:32.8

I never watch these shows live.

0:34.9

No, either do I.

0:36.7

Yeah, and if you're any sort of season fan at this point i

0:39.4

don't understand why you would obviously unless you're watching with a crowd like with with people at

0:43.8

home which i mean i got no social life you know other than doing this john so i've never that's never

0:48.4

an issue with me but yes um there are always a lot of commercials and there will continue to be a lot

0:53.6

of commercials as long as

0:54.7

this company is in existence I feel well here we are everyone we are live tonight uh want to give a

1:01.6

big thank you to all of the people that have checked out post wrestling over the past week uh we've had

1:07.0

great engagement strong returns organic moats, blah, blah, blah.

1:14.8

We thank all of the people that have joined us over the past week, signed up for the post-wrest wrestling

1:18.4

cafe.

1:19.1

Our sale continues this month, by the way, for all new subscribers, 50% off your first month.

1:24.6

If you are a new subscriber, and we are going to be continuing.

1:28.9

Just because WrestleMania is over, we're diving into a four-part double shot that will be

1:33.8

releasing later this month beginning to cover the Hulk Hogan Real American Doc series that

1:38.9

will launch on Netflix in a couple of days.

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