WWE WrestleMania 40 News: Current Night 1 Match Plans, Rumored Plans for Tag Titles Ladder Match, Backstage Feeling from Staff & Talent, Ticket Sales Update, More News

Apr 5, 2024

Current Plans for WrestleMania 40 Night 1 Matches

As noted before, WWE recently announced the full card lineups for both nights of their WrestleMania 40 event on April 6-7 at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In regards to this Saturday’s Night 1 event, Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that WWE officials current plans are for four of the seven matches to be long in length.

Meltzer reported that these matches currently scheduled to be given a lot of time are the WWE Women’s World Championship match of Becky Lynch vs. Rhea Ripley (c), the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Six-Pack Challenge Ladder match, the International Championship match of Sami Zayn vs. Gunther (c), and the Cody Rhodes & Seth Rollins vs. The Bloodline (The Rock & Roman Reigns) match.

Rumored Current Plans for Undisputed Tag Team Titles Ladder Match at WrestleMania 40 Night 1

WrestleMania 40 Night 1’s show will be featuring a Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship Six-Pack Challenge Ladder match between DIY, Awesome Truth, The New Day, Grayson Waller & Austin Theory, New Catch Republic, and champions Judgement Day.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that WWE officials are currently considering having two winners for this upcoming match as a way to split up the tag team titles again. Meltzer reported that WWE officials have had a lot of talks about this potential scenario taking place in recent days.

WWE’s RAW and SmackDown Tag Team titles have been unified since the May 20, 2020 episode of SmackDown.

Current Ticket Sales for WrestleMania 40

WWE reportedly has sold around 62,952 tickets for WrestleMania 40 Night 1 event on April 6th and 62,558 tickets for WrestleMania 40 Night 2 event on April 7th in Philadelphia as of Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Dave Meltzer reported that the current average secondary market ticket price of $417 for Night 1 and $1,832 for Night 2 would be the highest ever for a wrestling event in pro wrestling history.

Backstage Reaction Over First WrestleMania Without Vince McMahon’s Involvement

Fightful Slect reported that the general backstage reaction over WWE’s upcoming WrestleMania 40 event being the first WrestleMania without Vince McMahon’s involvement was one of excitement.

It was reported that WWE officials are currently excited over McMahon having no influence whatsoever for the first time in WrestleMania history. Several high level WWE officials spoken to reportedly stated that they believe there is no longer an incentive to future any creative preferences or agendas McMahon may have for WWE shows. Those same officials reportedly also stated that they feel McMahon is far more concerned and spending his time deal with his real-life issues over the Janel Grant lawsuit and other related legal matters.

One top talent spoken to reportedly described this week as having an “aura of excitement” due to the feeling that this really is the first Vince-free WrestleMania weekend and zero fears of him “f***king up everyone’s good time” since he is legitimately no longer there.

It was reported that the current belief within WWE is that McMahon is not expected to show up at this weekend’s WrestleMania 40 shows.

Besides WrestleMania 40 week, it was reported that WWE’s staff and talent also have a similar level of excitement for this Monday’s RAW show as well. Those spoken to reportedly stated that WWE’s RAW After WrestleMania show hasn’t felt like a special event in years and that it is much more of a possibility becoming so again with McMahon gone.

WWE WrestleMania 40 News & Notes

Bayley announced on Twitter that she was unable to get rock band Paramore nor their lead singer Hayley Williams to perform their “Simmer” song live for her entrance at WrestleMania 40 due to schedule-related issues.

WWE held a WrestleMania media day event on Friday morning featuring an angle taking place between AJ Styles and LA Knight involving them brawling and Styles being left with a bloody nose to hype up their upcoming match at WrestleMania 40.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE will be using a special heated ring for this weekend’s WrestleMania 40 event in Philadelphia due to the cold weather currently expected for both nights. Johnson reported that heat will be pumped into the ring from all four corners. Johnson also reported that should it rain during the event, there will also be a canopy over the ring as well.

Drew McIntyre revealed on Twitter that he has been recently training with AEW talent Brian Cage ahead of his match against Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at this Sunday’s WrestleMania 40 Night 2 event.

Thursday’s WaleMania: Philadelphia event in Philadephia featured WWE ring announcer Samantha Irvin making an appearance. Irvin announced that she will be the ring announcer for both nights of WrestleMania 40.