The Rock and Roman Reigns emerged victorious over Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins in a sensational main-event on Night 1 of WWE WrestleMania 40 in Philadelphia on Sunday. The Rock, who was competing in his first WWE match since WrestleMania 32 again in 2016, offered the completion in an evenly-matched contest as he delivered ‘The People’s Elbow’ on Rhodes to attain the ultimate pinfall. The victory implies that the Night 2 predominant occasion match between Rhodes and Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship will now be fought beneath ‘Bloodline Rules’. The Bloodline is the title of a gaggle led by Reigns and The Rock, which incorporates their members of the family Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa. The ‘Bloodline Rules’ match might be a road combat – the place there might be no disqualification.

Seth Rollins may even characteristic within the match card for WWE WrestleMania 40 Night 2 the place he’ll defend his World Heavyweight Championship towards Drew McIntyre.

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Meanwhile, Sami Zayn ended Gunther’s 666-day reign as WWE Intercontinental Champion in probably the greatest matches of the night time. Gunther spent almost two years because the champion earlier than Zayn produced an excellent efficiency to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the fourth time in his profession.

The Night 1 of WrestleMania 40 began with Rhea Ripley efficiently defending her title towards Becky Lynch. Ripley, whose entrance music was carried out dwell by metalcore band Motionless in White, acquired a large ovation from the followers regardless of being portrayed because the ‘villain’ of the story and her victory implies that she hasn’t suffered a single pinfall or submission loss since May 2022.

The present additionally noticed two new champions, as A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) and The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) gained the SmackDown Tag Team Championship and Raw Tag Team Championship respectively. They had been concerned in a Six-Pack Tag Team Ladder match the place each tag-team belts held by The Judgement Day (Finn Balor and Damian Priest) had been up for grabs.

In different outcomes, Jey Uso defeated Jimmy Uso in a brother vs brother grudge match whereas the staff of Rey Mysterio and Andrade defeated Santos Escobar and “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio in a tag-team match that noticed the involvement of Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason Kelce and ex-teammate Lane Johnson. Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, and Naomi additionally defeated Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai, Asuka, and Kairi Sane).