The 2026 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony will be taking place from the Dolby Live at Park MGM on Friday, April 17.
The ceremony is slated for a 9PM PT start time, which is Midnight ET, and airs immediately following the conclusion of Smackdown at the nearby T-Mobile Arena.
A pre-sale will start on Wednesday, March 9 at 1PM ET and that will be followed by a general public sale on Thursday, March 10 at 1PM ET at Ticketmaster.com.
Last year’s event, held at the same time as well, was at the Fontainebleau Hotel and Casino. The hotel played a key role in WrestleMania festivities last year, with most WWE events held there and also it’s where all the WWE stars and crew stayed at for the week.
Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles, and Demolition are so far the only ones announced for this year’s event.
Ring of Honor started television tapings at the WCJT Studios in Jacksonville today, a location which will seemingly be the new home of the brand.
Located in downtown Jacksonville and across from the TIAA Bank Field and Daily’s Place, the TV soundstage will offer a very intimate feel, with limited seats for fans, no tiered stands, and just a handful of rows.
AEW President Tony Khan announced at the tapings that they will be back in three weeks to film a new set of shows which currently air on ROH’s HonorClub. Access to the show is free but a registration form has to be filled, similar to what WWE does with NXT and its tapings at the WWE Performance Center.
ROH TV previously taped prior to other AEW television shows, mainly Collision.
Becky Lynch is once again threatening to boycott Raw following her loss to AJ Lee at the Elimination Chamber.
Writing in all caps on X, Lynch told Raw GM Adam Pearce that if he does not “suspend corrupt Carr” and address her IC title being stolen and degraded “by absolute joke and her terrible, classless husband,” she would have no other choice but to boycott the show tonight.
Lynch has lost all six matches that referee Jessika Carr has refereed and Carr was also involved in the finish in her match against Lee.
The degraded comment comes after Punk recreated the NSFW photo of Rollins and Lynch posing together naked covering their private parts with the titles. A naked Punk covered the lower part with his title and covered his chest with the Women’s IC title.
The Smackdown and Raw during WrestleMania week in Las Vegas are also having a hard time with ticket sales.
Both shows are hovering at just over 6,000 tickets sold, which is unheard of especially for a Raw After Mania, one of the hottest tickets of the year.
The two shows, at the T-Mobile Arena, have a long way to go for a decent crowd size considering it’s a 20,000-seater arena. Both shows were sold out last year.
Combo tickets and individual tickets are available via AXS.COM. The cheapest tickets are $96.48 for the upper sections.
Hulk Hogan’s boots from WrestleMania I from his match alongside Mr. T against “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff, sold for a whopping $1.037 million at an auction yesterday.
The blood-stained yellow boots have an inscription on it that reads, “These are my real boots with my real blood on them from MSG,” plus Hogan’s signature.
WWE Superstar Logan Paul wrote on X that he stayed up until 2AM in a bidding war for the boots, but ultimately he “tapped out” after the auction reached $1,021,000. Paul also congratulated the winner.
Several weeks ago Hogan’s left boot from his match at WrestleMania X8 versus The Rock was also sold at an auction and went for $146,400.
WWE World Heavyweight champion CM Punk discussed using the famous Chicago Bulls song for his match at Elimination Chamber, complete with an intro by the legendary Bulls announcer Ray Clay.
Punk was shown walking through the backstage area at the United Center as the song Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project, played in the background, complete with a light show for those inside the arena.
The song is most known for the starting line up music for the Chicago Bulls, and the PA announcer, Ray Clay, voiced over Punk’s special introduction.
“It’s a magical song, ladies and gentleman, and I got goosebumps just thinking about it and talking about it,” Punk said during the post-show. “But the best part about that entrance are these people behind me. And when I say the people behind me, I mean the entirety of the city of Chicago, because they are always behind me.”
Punk eventually came out to his Cult of Personality song as soon as he exited the backstage area, with the Chicago fans singing along.
The WWE Hall of Fame will welcome one of the greatest tag teams in history as Ax and Smash of Demolition got the nod today to enter the class of 2026.
It was The Undertaker who delivered the news to Bill Eadie and Barry Darsow in a video call, with both pretty surprised by the news. The Undertaker has recently took over the role of delivering the news for inductees.
“I got some news, man. It is my esteemed honor to welcome you two, Demolition, Ax and Smash, into the 2026 Class of the WWE Hall of Fame,” Taker said.
“Oh my God,” responded Eadie. “Unbelievable,” added Darsow.
The relationship between the parties was not always great and involved legal issues, but recently, the duo signed a Legends deal with WWE, paving the way to join their former manager, the late Mr. Fuji, in the Hall of Fame.
Demolition are former three-time WWE Tag Team champions and had the longest reign as tag champs, with 478 days, in WWE until The New Day broke their record.
WWE has quietly started a discounted Me + 3 Pack offer for WrestleMania 42, available for both nights via Ticketmaster.com.
The available tickets are in various levels and sections of the Allegiant Stadium and start at $202.70 per ticket, for a total of $810.80, per night.
WrestleMania 42 tickets have continued to disappoint in sales despite discounts and other offers throughout the past few months. Both nights are at around 35,000 tickets each at the moment, with half the stadium empty.
The company got a lot of flack for switching 42 from New Orleans to Las Vegas again and the strategy to hold back-to-back Mania shows at the very expensive city seems to have backfired.
The IInspiration will be making their AEW in-ring debut on the next episode of Dynamite on March 4.
The team of Cassie Lee and Jessica McKay appeared in a video on last night’s Collision and ran down Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor for ruining their debut last month at the non-televised live event in Brisbane, Australia.
The former WWE Women’s and TNA Knockouts Tag Team champions are looking at becoming the first female team to win the tag titles in the three major promotions in the United States.
NXT content will be coming off from the Peacock streaming service in the next two weeks as their contract expires.
It still remains to be seen where NXT will land after Peacock, with WWE working on a separate media rights deal for their development brand.
Currently, Peacock has all the NXT content apart from the shows which have aired on The CW. Peacock is also the home of NXT premium live events in the United States.
Once NXT is off, the only WWE content remaining on Peacock are Saturday Night’s Main Event and re-runs of Smackdown, which currently air on USA Network.
WWE claimed an attendance of 19,346 yesterday for the Elimination Chamber, meaning they moved nearly 5,000 tickets in the final week of the show.
The United Center was practically full except the private boxes, many of which were not occupied by their owner.
Hours before the show started, WWE put standing room only tickets for sale starting at $124.07, with their location being at the very top of the arena behind the 300 Level.
In the post-show, CM Punk said that this was the second most-grossing WWE arena event in history, and that comes behind the John Cena final match at Saturday Night’s Main Event in Washington, DC.
Secondary market ticket prices for the Elimination Chamber remained very high up until the show and the event rarely had any dip in prices in the lead up.
Drew McIntyre will be defending his WWE Championship against Cody Rhodes this coming Friday on Smackdown.
The announcement was made by an irate Smackdown General Manager Nick Aldis, who berated McIntyre for interfering in the main event during the Elimination Chamber post-show.
Aldis then crashed the post-show panel and made the match for Friday official. McIntyre then confronted Aldis, unhappy with the decision.
McIntyre made his presence felt at the Chamber yesterday, attacking Cody Rhodes with the WWE title but ate an RKO and a Cross Rhodes for his trouble. Randy Orton then hit a quick RKO on Rhodes to win the match and a spot in the title match at WrestleMania.
The mystery crate was opened at the Elimination Chamber and just as the rumors suggested, it was former AEW and ROH star Danhausen.
After the crate was unlocked by Adam Pearce and Nick Aldis, a bunch of dancers came out, followed by Danhausen himself. They all marched to the ring and danced before the underwhelming segment faded to black.
The crowd initially cheered for his unveiling but those quickly turned to boos by the end of his three-minute segment.
Danhausen posted cryptic social media posts yesterday, suggesting that he was free from his AEW contract. He was removed from the AEW roster page earlier today.
Seth Rollins returned at the Elimination Chamber yesterday, revealing himself as the real masked man tormenting The Vision.
During the men’s Chamber match, Logan Paul was having a good time, eliminating Je’Von Evans, LA Knight, and Trick Williams on his own, but then a masked man tried to enter the ring.
He was held by a ton of officials and unmasked, revealing another unknown man. But this was just a decoy as a few seconds later, another masked man entered the ring and took down Paul with the stomp.
That led Cody Rhodes to cover Paul, eliminating him from the match. The masked man then pulled up his mask slowly and the fans at the United Center erupted when it was Rollins. Rollins and Rhodes had a stare down, but Rollins eventually left through the crowd.
The former champion appeared on ESPN’s First Take yesterday and said that he was nearing a return, but shot down doing anything at the Elimination Chamber.
Rollins has been out of action since October of last year due to a shoulder injury he suffered wrestling Rhodes at Crown Jewel: Perth.
Rhea Ripley and Randy Orton punched their tickets to WrestleMania after they each won their respective Elimination Chamber match last night in Chicago.
Ripley, a favorite to win, was the overwhelming most popular in the match, with the crowd exploding when her theme song hit. The former champion pinned Tiffany Stratton with the Riptide to end the match and earn herself a title shot.
She will now take on Jade Cargill at WrestleMania 42 for the WWE Women’s title.
Meanwhile, Randy Orton was the surprise winner of the men’s Elimination Chamber match, pinning favorite Cody Rhodes to win. Drew McIntyre interfered in the match and was beating up on Cody when Orton went for the save and hit an RKO. McIntyre jumped straight into a Cross Rhodes after that but Orton outsmarted Rhodes and delivered an immediate RKO for the pinfall.
Orton will now face McIntyre – assuming he’s still the champion – at WrestleMania 42.
Here are the results from the Elimination Chamber 2026 premium live event which took place live from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois.
Rhea Ripley defeated Alexa Bliss, Raquel Rodriguez, Tiffany Stratton, Kiana James, and Asuka to win the women’s Elimination Chamber match; AJ Lee defeated Becky Lynch to become the new WWE Women’s Intercontinental champion; CM Punk defeated Finn Balor to retain the WWE World Heavyweight title; Randy Orton defeated Cody Rhodes, Je’Von Evans, LA Knight, Trick Williams, and Logan Paul to win the men’s Elimination Chamber match.
Collision will air on TNT tonight head-to-head with the WWE Elimination Chamber starting at 8PM ET and also streaming on HBO Max.
A total of seven matches have been announced for a packed card including Tomohiro Ishii vs Andrade El Idolo, Sisters of Sin vs Kris Statlander and Thunder Rosa, Kyle Fletcher and Kazuchika Okada vs Top Flight, Toni Storm vs Zayda Steel, Don Callis Family vs Death Riders in an eight-man tag match, Tommaso Ciampa vs Jay Lethal, and The Brawling Birds will also be in action.
Plus, both the AEW World champion MJF and AEW Women’s champion Thekla will be in the house for promos.
Hello everybody! This is @TheMagnumDA with another installment of the Pick’em report! Tonight, the WOPC Pick’em Championship is on the line, as Colin and I will battle with Confidence Pool rules in effect – 4 Points for the pick we’re most confident about, and 1 point for the least confident. Who will go into Wrestlemania as the WOPC Champion? Let’s find out right now!
ON WITH THE PICKS!
World Heavyweight Championship Match
CM Punk (c) vs. Finn Bálor
Magnum: Man, it’s so hard to go against CM Punk here. He’s in his hometown, and he’s got the big Mania match already in place with Roman Reigns. Finn could certainly turn everything upside down with a victory, but it’s not going to happen. Punk wins, 4 points.
Colin: I don’t think there will ever be a time where a face CM Punk will lose, let alone his title, to someone else in Chicago. That would be a kamikaze move. I have zero doubt that Punk is winning this one. There’s just no other way. 4 points.
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship
Becky Lynch (c) vs. AJ Lee
Magnum: The only thing I know for certain…is that this match is happening again at WrestleMania, and it will likely be the blowoff of their feud. I feel like AJ could win here, and Becky could get her win back at Mania. So I’ll go with AJ Lee and I’ll put 3 points on it.
Colin: If they’re extending this to WrestleMania, I don’t want AJ to win here. I can totally see Becky cheating to win this one, giving Lee a proper case for a rematch at WrestleMania. I think it will have more effect like this, but what do I know? Becky wins, 2 points.
Women’s Elimination Chamber Match – Winner Challenges for Women’s Championship at Wrestlemania XLII
Tiffany Stratton vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Kiana James vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Raquel Rodriguez vs. Asuka
Magnum: Now things are really getting interesting. This was an extremely challenging call up until last night, when RHIYO lost the tag team titles to the Irresistible Forces. Although I expect great performances by Kiana and Raquel, I see that the path is clear for Rhea to challenge Jade Cargill for the WWE Women’s Championship at Mania. She’s the most over person in the company, and it’s not even close. Give me Rhea to win this match and challenge Jade for the title, 2 points.
Colin: Jade Cargill has been a fail as a champion in my opinion. She looks the part, but they’re protecting her way too much because she’s still green. How many title matches did she have since winning it?! Anyway, it’s hard not to pick Rhea for this. She will probably beat Cargill too. I’d say Rhea for 1 point.
Men’s Elimination Chamber Match – Winner Challenges for WWE Championship at Wrestlemania XLII
Cody Rhodes vs. Logan Paul vs. LA Knight vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams vs. Randy Orton
Magnum: Here’s another match where things seemed a bit unclear until Smackdown – almost everyone in this match has a likely dance partner at Mania (Trick vs. Sami, Orton vs. Black, and Knight vs. Lesnar are rumored). It’s hard to go against QB1 in this situation. I’m going to take Cody, but I’m only putting 1 point on it because ANYTHING could happen in this match.
Colin: Of all the six people in the match, I’m sorry, but I don’t see anyone main eventing a WWE title match at WrestleMania unless it’s Cody. I still don’t believe it’s going to be a one-on-one match eventually, but I’m picking Cody and 3 points.
That’s going to do it for the Pick’em report – thanks for checking us out! We will see you at Wrestlemania in April!! @TheMagnumDA signing off.
Bayley announced that her Lodestone women’s training camp will be held for one day in Las Vegas in conjunction with WrestleMania 42 week.
The former champ is urging women wrestlers to get in touch with her at lodestonewomen@gmail.com to book a spot in the camp which will run from 7AM to 3PM.
Bayley did not give out a location of the camp except that it will be in Sin City.
This one-day seminar will be free of charge just like the first Lodestone camp was last year.
Danhausen has been removed from the AEW roster page today, confirming that he has departed the company following a turbulent four-year stint.
The Michigan native hinted at “freedom” yesterday in a series of posts on social media. Danhausen had requested his release from AEW in August of last year but his request was denied and more months were added to his existent deal to make up for his 2023 injury.
There are big rumors that the 35-year-old will be the one popping out of the mystery crate at the Elimination Chamber tonight, although that has not been 100% confirmed.
