Episode 2161
WrestleMania 39
Mon, 2023-Apr-03 03:34 UTC
Length - 3:11
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WrestleMania 39 (marketed as WrestleMania Goes Hollywood) is the ongoing 39th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It is being held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event is taking place as a two-night event on April 1 and 2, 2023, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California—the original location of WrestleMania 37 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to be relocated. WWE wrestler The Miz and rapper Snoop Dogg are serving as the hosts for the event.
WrestleMania 39 is the sixth to be held in Greater Los Angeles (after 2, VII, XII, 2000, and 21), and the seventh in the state of California overall (including 31, which was held in the San Francisco Bay Area). This is also the first WrestleMania to take place under Triple H's creative control, following the retirement of Vince McMahon in July 2022; McMahon had served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company since 1982 and created WrestleMania in 1985, and although he returned to the company in January 2023 as Executive Chairman, this did not affect Triple H's position. It is the first WrestleMania to livestream on Binge in Australia.
In the main event for Night 1, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn defeated The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) to win the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, ending the latter's record setting tag team title reign at 622 days. This was also the first time a tag team championship match was the main event of a WrestleMania, and only the second time a tag team match in general was the main event, after WrestleMania I in March 1985. In other prominent matches, Seth "Freakin" Rollins defeated Logan Paul, Rhea Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair to win the SmackDown Women's Championship, and in the opening bout, Austin Theory defeated John Cena to retain Raw's United States Championship. The event was notable for the in-ring returns of Pat McAfee, who wrestled his first match since the 2022 SummerSlam, as well as the in-ring WWE debut of Snoop Dogg, who both defeated The Miz in impromptu matches.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:34 UTC on Monday, 3 April 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see WrestleMania 39 on Wikipedia.
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