WWE WrestleMania 39 Live Stream, Peacock Start Time and Match Card

With the first night of its epic two-night extravaganza in the books, WWE is back in SoFi Stadium Sunday night for part two, headlined by the hotly anticipated showdown between Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

A match months in the making will put an exclamation point on a momentous weekend for the promotion, but it is not the only bout on the stacked Night 2 lineup.

What else can fans expect, when, and where can they watch the conclusion of this year's Showcase of the Immortals?

Find out with this preview of Sunday's presentation.

Venue, Start Time and Streaming Info

Venue: SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California

Start Time: 8 p.m. (Kickoff Show at 6 p.m.)

Streaming: Peacock in the United States, WWE Network everywhere else

PPV: Also available on traditional pay-per-view outlets

Sunday Match Card

Announced for Sunday's WrestleMania 39 broadcast are:

• Undisputed WWE Universal Championship Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns (c)
• Raw Women's Championship Match: Bianca Belair (c) vs. Asuka
• Triple Threat Match for the Intercontinental Championship: Drew McIntyre vs. Sheamus vs. Gunther (c)
• Hell in a Cell: Edge vs. Finn Bálor
• Women's WrestleMania Showcase Match: Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez vs. Natalya and Shotzi vs. Chelsea Green and Sonya Deville vs. Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey
• Brock Lesnar vs. Omos

A Different Role for Brock Lesnar

Few Superstars carry the resume, legitimacy and mainstream recognition of Brock Lesnar so it made sense when he returned to professional wrestling in 2012 that he would be utilized as an attraction.

For a decade, he was programmed against top stars in the highest-profile matches as WWE attempted to utilize his star power to draw attention and lend credibility to their most important pay-per-view events.

One year ago, he stood on the WrestleMania stage as one-half of a match billed as the biggest of all time. On that night, The Beast lost the WWE Championship to Universal champion Roman Reigns, but there was no denying his presence was hugely significant in selling the magnitude of the contest.

There is less pressure on Lesnar this year as he takes on a role he is not familiar with: undercard competitor.

From day one of his WWE career, Lesnar was tapped for the main event, and within five months, he was the guy. He has never been in a position where he is almost an afterthought, programmed with a competitor fans don't necessarily believe in, tasked with bringing legitimacy to him.

Omos is a green, raw giant who has had opportunities to this point but not enough to build a connection with fans. WWE hopes it can utilize Lesnar to help with that, all while elevating the big man's stature on the show via proxy.

Rarely has a Lesnar match felt so inconsequential, but perhaps that is what he needed. A creature of the big match and moment, maybe Lesnar needed to be rejuvenated. Fans have written his participation on this year's card off, believing it to be beneath him.

It will be up to The Beast to prove that it is not; that he can take a project like Omos and deliver a better-than-expected match that reminds his doubters that he has earned every ounce of recognition and stardom that he has achieved over the years.

Lesnar will probably win, and rightfully so, but how he gets there and everything that precedes it will determine his success at this year's show.

WrestleMania First-Timers Headline Showcase Match

The Women's WrestleMania Showcase Match pitting four tag teams against each other with no real rhyme or reason for happening may be thrown together specifically to get all of the participants on the card but for three of the competitors, it marks for their first dance on the Grandest Stage of Them All.

Raquel Rodriguez, Shotzi and Chelsea Green arrive at WrestleMania from different backgrounds but with one goal in mind: capture a win on the industry's biggest night, with the eyes of the pro wrestling world on them.

Rodriguez, a second-generation competitor, has recently been presented as one of the faces of WWE's future. She starred in a championship match against Ronda Rousey last December and, at one point, was even scheduled to battle the Baddest Woman on the Planet at this event.

Shotzi worked her way through the independent scene and even appeared on WWE's Tough Enough but was forced to withdraw from that competition due to an irregular heartbeat. She fought her way back to the company and has created a character and persona for herself that has plenty of potential but has not had the opportunity to really connect with audiences to this point.

Green also worked the indies before finding success in Impact Wrestling as Laurel Van Ness. She competed in that same Tough Enough show, then signed a WWE developmental deal in 2018 but was released as part of the massive cuts the company made in 2021.

She was re-signed in 2022 under Triple H's creative regime and recently returned as the bane of general manager Adam Pearce's existence.

All three women have had varying degrees of success and will now live a lifelong dream of competing at WrestleMania. Rodriguez teams with former SmackDown Women's champion Liv Morgan to battle Shotzi and future Hall of Famer Natalya, the team of Green and Sonya Deville, and the tandem of Rousey and Shayna Baszler.

On paper, a Rousey and Baszler victory seems like a foregone conclusion given the star power at play with the former, but how the others perform under the bright lights and the enormity of the setting could dictate what their post-Mania 2023 looks like.

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