WWE today welcomed Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland on Netflix, the latest four countries to port to the service following certain conclusions to local television rights.
Italy will get the full compliment of WWE’s Netflix catalog, with live Raw, NXT, Smackdown, premium live events, and available library part of the service.
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will get all the premium live events on the service starting with WrestleMania and also the available library of WWE past events. Raw, NXT, and Smackdown will continue to air on local television until that contract expires.
China, Japan, South Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa remain the only ones which do not get WWE on Netflix.
Tonight’s NXT will serve as the go-home episode for Stand & Deliver and is taking place live from the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Scheduled matches for tonight include:
Jasper Troy vs Keanu Carver
OTM and TNA World champion Mike Santana vs DarkState
Los Americanos vs BirthRight in a #1 contender’s match for the NXT Tag Team titles
Lola Vice vs Kendal Grey in a #1 contender’s match for the NXT Women’s title
Jaida Parker vs Kelani Jordan
NXT airs at 8PM ET on The CW in the United States and on Netflix worldwide.
Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant from WrestleMania III will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as an Immortal Moment.
Immortal Moment was introduced with last year’s Hall of Fame ceremony, with Bret Hart vs Steve Austin from WrestleMania XIII being the first inductee. Both men accepted the award in person during the ceremony.
“Among the pantheon of commentary in wrestling, Gorilla Monsoon’s description of Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant as ‘the irresistible force meets the immovable object’ is at the very top,” wrote Triple H on X. “The main event of WrestleMania III is more than just a piece @WWE history, it is in the DNA of every bit of our industry.”
With this induction, Hulk Hogan will posthumously become a three-time WWE Hall of Famer, having already been inducted individually and along with the nWo. He joins Bret “Hit Man” Hart as the only other three-time inductee.
Andre The Giant, the first-ever inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, will become a two-time recipient of the award.
It remains unclear on who will accept the award on behalf of Hulk and Andre or who will induct them. CM Punk did the honors last year for Hart vs Austin.
WWE stars Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch and Nattie recently sat down for a SiriusXM Front Row Series hosted by Nikki & Brie Garcia on SiriusXM Stars.
During the interview, Cody Rhodes revealed that he might approach his fashion differently in the ring after seeing how much attention Rhea Ripley has been getting and shared his thoughts going into WrestleMania 42, his big match with Randy Orton and how he’s approaching it.
Becky Lynch told Nikki & Brie that she is excited to launch AMO Coffee with her husband, Seth Rollins, and Nattie shared that that a moment of reflection after WrestleMania 41 led her to take a different approach to her career.
You can listen to the full interview airing on SiriusXM Stars (ch. 109) on Wednesday, April 1 at 11AM ET.
Nikki Garcia: Let’s talk Randy Orton WrestleMania.
Cody Rhodes: Ruined it. I was having a good day.
Brie Garcia: Nothing like Nikki to ruin someone’s day.
Nikki Garcia: Birdie’s on your side. Birdie does not like Randy Orton.
Cody Rhodes: Well, somebody asked me, do I hate Randy Orton and I said, “Well, I can’t really answer it,” because how could I hate Randy Orton when all the things it takes to beat Randy Orton at WrestleMania 42, everything it would take, 80% of it I learned from Randy Orton. So, that’s a very difficult place to be in. You have a match with, for example, C Punk versus Roman Reigns, two guys who just hate each other. Unfortunately, with myself and Randy Orton, even though it doesn’t look this way, it’s two guys who I think love each other and because we have 20 years of television equity, my first match on TV, my dad’s last match, punting me, legacy, all those things, it’s real and when it’s real, it’s best. Standing across the ring from Randy at WrestleMania 42 will be a hundred percent looking at him like I’m looking at you right now and hoping, “Hey, I hope you see me,” because I’m not a little kid anymore and sometimes they still are like, “Oh no, he is a little,” you know, but I need him to know, and I’d like it to be one and done. I hope that doesn’t put, you know, rain on anyone’s parade, but I’m getting tired of wrestling guys. Okay. Nevermind.
Becky Lynch: You’re getting tired of wrestling guys?
Cody Rhodes: No, no, no, no, no. I just, you get into these long standing rivalries and you’re just like, you’re in there. I mean, me and your husband wrestled four times now and more than that, really, like four, and I think took a great deal out of each other on the way, I mean, so I don’t know if that’s what I’m looking to do here. As much as I want him to see me, that’s the hill in front of me.
Cody Rhodes: I think you’re starting to see, ’cause there’s a lot of fans who notice, I’ll give you an example. Rhea Ripley’s cover that she does. It’s quite, it’s provocative, right? So, now I think there’s some guys who are starting to go, “Cool, I’m gonna lean into my thing.” So like, I started trying to draw attention to my butt a lot more. I’m like, “Hey, if they’re doing it, I also wanna do it.”
Brie Garcia: Wait, did you make your trunks smaller?
Cody Rhodes: No, I just like the suits were carved out a little bit more, and then I started wearing the braces or the suspenders, which is a new bit.
Brie Garcia: I do like that. That’s sexy.
Cody Rhodes: Give it a little extra. You know what I’m saying? I’m not doing anything that anyone else isn’t doing.
Becky Lynch: You gotta put the ones around your thighs. There you go. Like matching your tie. You know?
Cody Rhodes: Rhea does the promo and does the turn, you know what I’m saying? What’s to stop us from, you know?
Brie Garcia: You should. All of us women, we’re not gonna say no.
Cody Rhodes: It’s a fight at that merch day. You know what I’m saying? So, you’re just trying to get your percentage up, you know? Whatever it takes, you know?
Becky Lynch: I started drinking coffee from a young age. I started, well, young, relatively, I got into cappuccinos at 14, and you know, I would always, whenever I was anywhere, like I’ve lived all over the place and I would always, my happy place was always in a coffee shop and I would sit there and I would drink coffee and I would write and that was how I spent my free time wherever we were, and then whenever I got together with Colby, I realized that maybe the quality of my coffee was not up to par ’cause this man is a snob of the highest order, so then I got into, I would go with him to all these different cafes that at one point I would’ve been like, “It’s pretentious. Where’s the soul?” Then I was like, “Ah, the soul is in the coffee and this is giving me soul and life,” and so we would just, you know, because when you’re on the road and you’re traveling constantly, you don’t get time to sightsee or take adventures, but going to a good coffee shop is its own experience, its own adventure, and you know, we kind of bonded over that and that was always the thing that we would do first thing in the morning, and then we’d go train and then we’d go find another coffee shop, and so we got to try the best coffees all over the world and we were like, “Oh man. How great would it be to be able to bring this to our audience?” We want people to love coffee as much as we love coffee. We want people to taste what we are tasting and to be able to get access to the best stuff, so we created this.
Nikki Garcia: When was the moment that you realized like, “I’m not Natalia anymore. I want everyone to see Nattie.”
Nattie: So, last year when I wasn’t a part of WrestleMania, I could feel and sense that I wasn’t gonna be included, and so I decided I could do one of two things. I could bitch about it or I could take action, so I decided that I would about it to TJ.
Nikki Garcia: That’s what our husbands are for.
Nattie: And then I decided to take action and I walked right up to Triple H the following week at Monday Night Raw and I said, “I wanna do blood sport. I want to do this match that nobody has ever seen me do a match like this.” This is something outside of WWE. It was the first time I would ever stepped outside of WWE. It was my first time stepping outside of the company in 18 years and doing an independent show with, you know, there’s no ropes. It’s very serious fighting and he said yes immediately and I actually said to Cody Rhodes, I said, “I’m gonna blow this motherfucker up.” I said, ‘And when I say motherfucker, I meant blood sport.” I was like, “I’m gonna steal the whole entire weekend.”
WrestleMania After Dark is returning this year in Las Vegas, with Super Bowl champ Rob Gronkowski hosting the WrestleMania after party on Sunday, April 19.
The event is marketed under the name Gronk Beach and will happen at the Marquee Dayclub inside The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas starting at 10:30PM until late.
WWE Superstars Tiffany Stratton, Trick Williams, Lash Legend, ad other surprise guests will be part of this event and the music will be provided all night long with DJ IRIE, Myles O’Neal, and DJ A.J.
The Marquee is a 22,000 square-foot revitalized rooftop pool deck on top of the Cosmo, a popular location among partygoers in Sin City.
Saturday Night’s Main Event is returning in July as WWE takes over Madison Square Garden in New York City for their third installment of 2026.
The news was announced last night during a commercial break on Raw, with Danhausen being the messenger.
The date will be July 18, just two months after WWE holds their second SNME of the year on May 23 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The show will run on the same weekend as Fanatics Fest, running from July 16 to 19, at the Javits Center, where WWE will have a large presence.
Believe it or not, this is only the second Saturday Night’s Main Event to take place from Madison Square Garden. The first one was in August 2007, headlined by John Cena vs Carlito.
Tickets will go on sale starting Thursday, April 2 at 10AM ET via Ticketmaster. Fans can purchase tickets during an exclusive pre-sale starting now.
Saturday Night’s Main Event airs exclusively on Peacock in the United States and on YouTube internationally.
Popular streamer IShowSpeed showed up on Raw again yesterday and inadvertently helped The Vision win the WWE World Tag Team titles from The Usos.
Speed was sitting at ringside for the match next to Logan Paul’s mom and at one point, she handed the brass knuckles to her son. Speed tried to tell Paul not to use them and was dragged over the barricade by Paul after LA Knight, who was the guest ring announcer, attacked Paul from behind.
Speed put the brass knuckles on himself and Knight went to check on Speed. Without checking who was behind him, Speed turned around and knocked Knight out with the brass knuckles. Speed was shocked and removed the brass knuckles, placing them on the apron and walked out.
The Usos had the match almost won but Paul managed to smack Jimmy with the knuckles when he went for a suicide dive and fell back in the ring. Theory, who was about to get an Uso splash, then rolled over and covered him for the pinfall victory.
After the match in a backstage segment, The Vision celebrated with IShowSpeed, who was not sure it was the right thing. Heyman told all of them to go celebrate the win and after they walked away, Heyman said that The Usos were going to kill Speed, which got a laugh from the MSG crowd.
Four new matches were announced for WrestleMania 42 last night on Raw live from Madison Square Garden.
The WWE Women’s Tag Team titles will be on the line in a fatal four-way tag team match as Nia Jax and Lash Legend defend against Bayley and Lyra Valkyria, Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair, and Nikki and Brie Bella.
Penta is putting the WWE Intercontinental title up for grabs in a ladder match with Je’Von Evans, Rusev, Dragon Lee, and Judgment Day’s JD McDonagh as his opponents.
Speaking of Judgment Day, current AAA Mega champion Dominik Mysterio will be battling former JD teammate Finn Balor in a one-on-one match. The AAA Mega title is not on the line.
And last and certainly not least, the recently medically-cleared Seth Rollins takes on Gunther. These two had original different opponents for WrestleMania but both Bron Breakker and Rey Mysterio remain unavailable.
With these four additions, WrestleMania 42 for now has 12 matches spanned across two nights, with a few more expected.
Stephanie McMahon made a surprise appearance on Raw yesterday and slapped some sense into the WWE champion Cody Rhodes.
McMahon was urging Cody to think like The Viper if he wants to beat him and retain the title at WrestleMania and mentioned that his father Dusty would know that better than anyone.
Cody told Stephanie that he was not his father and told Stephanie that she was not hers either, as fans inside MSG popped for the comment. The champ had an instant regret look on his face and then came the famous Stephanie slap.
McMahon insisted she was there to help Cody and unless he changes his way, WrestleMania will be the last time he will be introduced as the undisputed WWE champion.
Before she walked out, Rhodes grabbed her by the arm and turned her around and the two came face-to-face.
“Stephanie McMahon…I got two words for you…thank you,” Rhodes said, as McMahon smiled.
Gunther returned on Raw last night after several weeks of absence and attacked Seth Rollins, setting up a match for WrestleMania between the two.
Rollins was announced as medically cleared to compete by Raw General Manager Adam Pearce during an in-ring segment involving also Paul Heyman. Rollins stormed the ring and attacked Heyman with a chair before setting him up for a curb stomp. But out of nowhere, The Ring General showed up and locked Rollins in a sleeper hold, putting the former champ to sleep.
Gunther then grabbed Rollins again and pointed at the WrestleMania sign hanging from the rafters, making the challenge for the show. Adam Pearce made the match official later in during the broadcast.
These two had two different opponents originally set for WrestleMania. Gunther was supposed to take on Rey Mysterio, but Mysterio remains injured. Rollins was also supposed to wrestle Bron Breakker, but Breakker is also not cleared yet following hernia surgery.
Monday Night Raw rolls into Madison Square Garden tonight where over 16,000 fans will pack the world’s most famous arena as WWE continues its road to WrestleMania.
Four matches have been announced for tonight:
Nia Jax and Lash Legend vs Bayley and Lyra Valkyria
Iyo Sky vs Raquel Rodriguez
The Usos vs Austin Theory and Logan Paul for the WWE World Tag Team titles
Penta vs Kofi Kingston for the WWE Intercontinental title
Plus, WWE World Heavyweight champion CM Punk and his challenger Roman Reigns will be in the house and so will Brock Lesnar.
All this and more tonight live at 8PM ET on Netflix worldwide.
Impact on AMC drew 256,000 viewers this past Thursday night, their second-best number of 2026 so far and up 6,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.05 rating in 18-49, up 0.01 and matches their best number of 2026. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Appearing on Busted Open Radio earlier today, WWE champion Cody Rhodes admitted that his $9,950 tour bus price tag for WrestleMania weekend is “absurd” but despite the ridiculous price, the tour has been sold out. The tour was sold and promoted by OnLocation.
Rhodes said that knowing that people pay that money to be around him makes him feel incredible and he’s ready to repay it by giving the fans who purchased the tour a great experience.
“I want them to definitely feel like they got a unique and cool experience and something intimate for us,” Cody said. “Because you get those moments with your fans where you can sit down across from them and actually get to know them.”
He mentioned two of the fans who are coming on the tour are repeat from last year and they will be coming on his podcast too to share the experience. Last year’s tour was barely advertised and only a handful go to enjoy it.
The bus will also hit the road with the fans with an expert Las Vegas tour guide onboard as they go visit a couple of famous Vegas hotspots.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said that he was really moved when he got the call that he would be receiving Disney’s highest honor – the Disney Legends Award.
“This honor recognizes individuals with significant and global impacts on @Disney. I’m moved. THANK YOU,” Johnson said.
He added that he believes in hard work, being grateful, being humble, being good to people, taking care of people, and respecting that the trust they put in you to deliver.
“And where and when can, always, always, always try and deliver a little joy for folks around the world,” he continued.
Johnson then thanked a bunch of people including the Disney executive teams, Imagineers, employees and cast members.
The Disney Legends Awards will be presented during a ceremony at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event on Sunday, August 16.
PWInsider.com is reporting that Roxanne Perez is expected to return to television tonight on Raw.
Perez has been absent since the Raw after Royal Rumble and revealed in a TikTok video three weeks later that she was sidelined due to surgery to remove a benign mass from her back.
“I recently underwent a surgery to remove a benign mass that was in my back that was causing me a lot of pain for a couple of months,” she said at the time.
Perez added that she did not want to have time off as being a WWE Superstar has been a dream of hers since she was 10.
“But our health is very important, so we need to put that first. My recovery is going well. I don’t have too much pain anymore. It kind of comes and goes. I’m gonna be back in the ring in no time, Pop Roxing everybody’s ass,” she continued.
Mercedes Mone is down to just two title belts after she lost the PTW Women’s title this weekend in Poland.
Mone lost clean to Diana Strong in Koslow at an event titled More Mone, More Problems, eight months after she beat Strong for title in late July of last year.
The former TBS champion remains in possession of the WPW Women’s title and the APAC Women’s title. She will defend the WPW Women’s title tomorrow night in Winnipeg against Jody Threat and highly likely losing that one as well.
Mone has been dropping all the indie titles she won last year ahead of her impending return to AEW television.
WWE host Megan Morant announced that she has qualified for the Olympic trials.
Morant, an accomplished runner, wrote that while watching the Olympic Trials Marathon in 2020 and seeing a record number of women qualify, she wondered what if she tried to do it herself.
“I was a has-been. My successful high school running career led to a D1 college scholarship, but in college, things never really panned out,” Morant wrote. “Deep down inside, I knew I still had untapped potential in running, but I often thought: who cares? What’s the point?”
She said over the past several years, she has concentrated on her career but now believes that you can have a career and also be a high-level athlete at the same time.
“Easy? No. Doable? If you want it to be: Why not? I was inspired. I got curious. I wanted to be there. I went to work. Over 6 years later, my dream is now a reality. With the greatest support system in the world by my side, I just qualified for the Olympic Trials (how is this even real?!),” she continued.
The 31-year-old co-hosts the WWE Now Raw Recap podcast for WWE and is also a backstage correspondent.
John Cena has announced that he will be the host of WrestleMania 42.
In a video posted on his social media from Hollywood, John Cena said that his “road” has looked different since retiring, but now he’s officially on the road to WrestleMania.
“I’m shooting a movie for Netflix called One Attempt Remaining that you can see when it comes out. I’m also on the road, which is ironic because there’s a road to WrestleMania going on, and Hollywood is really close to Vegas,” he said. “Rumor around this town is WrestleMania needs a host. Well, I’m already on that road, so I will see you at WrestleMania!”
Cena has not appeared on WWE television since his retirement match in December against Gunther. He had vowed that once he retired, he will ditch his jorts and colorful t-shirts and will do WWE work in a suit and tie.
WWE did record business last year with Cena headlining events and is hoping to replicate that for WrestleMania 42, which is still short of last year’s ticket sales. Both nights are hovering at 40,000 tickets each.
In a post on social media, TNA champion Mike Santana addressed what happened at Sacrifice this past Friday where his main event match against Steve Maclin had to be abandoned after Maclin was knocked out minutes into the match.
He said every time before a match, he kneels and prays to God to protect him and his opponent but freak accidents happen and sometimes they are out of their control as well.
“That’s the unfortunate reality of what we do. All we can do is learn from it and take preventative measures moving forward, so that we can avoid making the same mistakes,” Santana wrote.
It was his superkick which knocked Maclin out after coming off the ropes, but thanks to the quick thinking of referee Alice Lane, no further damage was done.
“I will say, I’m truly proud of how TNA handled the situation. And even more proud of referee Alice Lane,” Santana continued. “Her elite professionalism and quick thinking saved us. We were truly blessed to have had her out there with us.”
Santana described Maclin as one of the toughest guys he knows and also a close friend for a long time and he’s glad that he’s safe and doing well.
“At the end of the day, our health and well-being come first and we showed exactly that,” he concluded.
UFC star Israel Adesanya paid tribute to former NXT champion Oba Femi last night on UFC Fight Night: Seattle.
Adesanya, who was in the main event fighting Joe Pyfer, entered the Octagon doing Femi’s entrance walk, with the commentary team acknowledging Fema on television.
Unfortunately for Adesanya, his first fight in over a year ended in a disappointment as Pyfre inflicted his fourth loss in a row, with his professional MMA record now standing at 24-6.
