WWE: WrestleMania 40 Night 1 Main Event Confirmed, WWE & Prime Signs Ring Mat Logo Sponsorship Deal, Nia Jax on Main Eventing Elimination Chamber 2024

Mar 9, 2024

WWE Confirms The Bloodline vs. Seth Rollins & Cody Rhodes for Main Event of WrestleMania 40 Night 1

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Dallas, Texas featured Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes accepting The Rock’s challenge for a tag team match at Night 1 of WrestleMania 40 on April 6th at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The stipulation for this tag team match is if Rhodes’ team wins, then The Bloodline are banned from Rhodes match against Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universial Championship on Night 2 but if The Bloodline wins, then its Bloodline Rules for Cody’s match at Night 2 which means anything goes.

Following the show, WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque confirmed on Twitter that this tag team match will be the main event of Night 1 of WrestleMania 40.

The biggest tag team match ever… at the biggest #WrestleMania ever.@TheRock & @WWERomanReigns vs. @CodyRhodes & @WWERollins is happening LIVE in Philly at WrestleMania XL. pic.twitter.com/asZ6YvdIlH
— Triple H (@TripleH) March 9, 2024

Current card for WWE WrestleMania 40:

Night 2 – Undisputed WWE Universal Championship – Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns (c)
Night 2 – WWE World Heavyweight Championship – Drew McIntyre vs. Seth Rollins (c)
Night 1 – The Bloodline (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson & Roman Reigns) vs. Seth Rollins & Cody Rhodes
WWE Women’s Championship – Bayley vs. IYO SKY (c)
WWE Women’s World Championship – Becky Lynch vs. Rhea Ripley (c)
WWE Intercontinental Championship – Winner of #1 Contender Gauntlet match vs. Gunther (c)

WWE & Prime Sign Sponsorship Deal for Ring Mat Logo at WWE Events

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Dallas, Texas also featured Logan Paul announcing that his Prime energy drink brand recently signed an official sponsorship deal with WWE to be the official ring mat logo for WWE Premium Live Events starting at this April’s WrestleMania 40 event.

Following the show, WWE confirmed that they had recently signed an sponsorship deal with Prime.

Official press release:

WWE ^® & PRIME HYDRATION STRIKE RECORD-SETTING GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FEATURING FIRST-EVER RING MAT BRANDING
Logan Paul and KSI-Founded PRIME Hydration Becomes First Official Partner to Activate Across TKO Group Holdings Companies
STAMFORD, Conn., March 8, 2024 – WWE^®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), and Logan Paul and KSI’s widely popular beverage brand PRIME today struck a record-setting global partnership that will see PRIME Hydration become the exclusive “Official Hydration Drink Partner” of WWE and the first partner to ever appear on the center of the WWE ring.
As WWE’s exclusive “Official Hydration Drink Partner,” PRIME Hydration will receive unprecedented exposure and integration within key WWE assets, highlighted by never-before-seen center mat branding at Premium Live Events (PLEs) such as WrestleMania and Money In The Bank. Further, PRIME Hydration will earn key brand placement within WWE events including WrestleMania XL and Survivor Series, match sponsorships, co-presenter designations at future PLEs, product activations at live events, social support from WWE Superstars across retail and digital activations, and more.
Additionally, PRIME Hydration will be the first official partner to activate across both TKO companies. In January 2023, UFC struck an exclusive global partnership with PRIME Hydration that features a number of branded integrations and entitlements, including the Official Hydration Drink of UFC and Official Partner of the UFC Performance Institute. Earlier this year, TKO brought together the global partnerships teams at UFC and WWE to form a singular global partnerships unit with a unified sponsorship strategy.
In addition, official Money In The Bank Priority Passes are now available through exclusive partner On Location. Money In The Bank Priority Passes offer fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating mo“What Logan and his team have built in a short time is phenomenal and we’re excited to help showcase PRIME Hydration across our biggest events,” said WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
“Combining two of my greatest achievements into one knockout partnership is a dream come true,” said PRIME Co-Founder Logan Paul. “We’ve worked incredibly hard at PRIME to build a brand that disrupts the beverage industry and it’s time to join forces with the global leader in sports entertainment. Thank you to everyone on both sides who have played an important role in bringing PRIME Hydration to the ring.”
With bold, thirst-quenching flavors to help refresh, replenish, and refuel, PRIME Hydration’s goal is to create a drink that can fuel any lifestyle. Available in a range of flavors that include orange, grape, ice pop, blue raspberry, lemon lime and tropical punch, each drink comes with added nutritional benefits to compliment taste. PRIME Hydration has a coconut water base and boasts BCAA to aid muscle recovery, B vitamins, antioxidants, and electrolytes.

Nia Jax Comments on Her Match with Rhea Ripley Main Eventing WWE Elimination Chamber 2024

A recent episode of The Hall of Fame with Booker T & Brad Gilmore podcast featured Nia Jax as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Jax’s thoughts about her match against Rhea Ripley at this past February’s Elimination Chamber 2024 event in Australia.

“So like a lot, not a lot of people know I was born out there. I was born in Sydney. I was like, I’m a hometown girl. So it’s funny because I used to go out there a lot because my Oma, my mom’s mom and my, my mom’s sister, my auntie live out in Sydney. So I love Australia. It’s beautiful. The people are beautiful. The atmosphere is gorgeous. The weather is beautiful. So being in Perth was actually my first time. I, funnily enough, I have so many cousins on my Samoan side and one of my cousins was out there. He took me around Perth and let me see all the beautiful sights. Being out there was just, it felt like home. I wish we would have stayed longer. But being in that Optus Stadium was incredible. I mean, you know how WWE does it. Set it up like, I felt like it was a WrestleMania. It was incredible. Huge. The crowd was electric. So, I mean, standing in that ring and everybody chanting for Rhea, which was amazing, but I wish it could have lasted longer. I hope we go back again because I feel like they just got a little taste and I think we can put an even bigger show on.”

Jax also gave her thoughts about when she first found out that her match with Ripley would be the main event for the show.

“I didn’t know until I think the night before. I think somebody had like sent a card to me and I’m like, ‘wait a minute. Does this mean that we’re on in the main event?’ I’m not gonna lie. I felt like a lot of pressure because you had some pretty stacked Elimination Chambers and a great tag on the card. Then you had like the Grayson Waller Effect being main event of that show. It was a pretty big deal for me. And yeah, I just wanted to put on the best match I possibly could and it was a great story, you know, easy with Rhea Ripley, but wanted to be able to tell a really good story to the fans and hope that it resonated to them. It was an honor to be a main event in front of all those people.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com