WWE WrestleMania 40: Latest Match Card and Known Order for Historic Event

WWE invades Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7, for WrestleMania 40, a celebration of four decades of the biggest professional wrestling extravaganza.

The show is headlined by high-stakes championship bouts, personal vendettas, and one particular story fans cannot wait to see finished.

Ahead of the spectacular, held live at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, find out which matches will take place on what night, what we know about the order of the card, and which two under-the-radar stories bear watching closely with this preview of The Showcase of the Immortals.

Saturday Match Card

Announced in advance for night one of WrestleMania 40 are:

• Cody Rhodes and Seth "Freakin" Rollins vs. The Rock and Roman Reigns
• Women's World Championship Match: Becky Lynch vs. Rhea Ripley (c)
• Intercontinental Championship Match: Sami Zayn vs. Gunther (c)
• Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso
• 6-Pack Ladder Match for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship: DIY vs. Awesome Truth vs. The New Day vs. New Catch Republic vs. Austin Theory and Grayson Waller vs. The Judgment Day (c)
• Jade Cargill, Naomi, and Bianca Belair vs. Damage CTRL
• Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee vs. Santos Escobar and Dominik Mysterio

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Thus far, the only thing we know for sure about the match order for Saturday's show is that the high-stakes tag team match pitting Rhodes and Rollins against The Rock and Reigns will be the main event.

No. 1 contender to the Women's World Championship, Lynch, told Andrew Korpan of Clutch Points, "I would love to open the show. I would love that. I've never opened WrestleMania before," in regards to her showdown with Ripley.

She continued, "And to open this one, as big as it is in Philadelphia, I'm just putting that out there," she manifested with a laugh. "It would be pretty cool because if it's not the main event, I always want to be the opening spot — it's always a great place on the card because people are so excited."

The opening match sets the tone for the rest of the show and, with expectations high for the women's title match Saturday, this particular match-up would have the opportunity to steal the show out from underneath the megastars across the rest of the card.

Sunday Match Card

Announced in advance of WrestleMania night two are:

• Undisputed WWE Universal Championship Match: Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns (c)
• World Heavyweight Championship Match: Seth "Freakin" Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre
• WWE Women's Championship Match: Bayley vs. Iyo Sky (c)
• Triple Threat Match for the United States Championship: Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens vs. Logan Paul (c)
• LA Knight vs. AJ Styles
• Philadelphia Street Fight: Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits vs. The Final Testament

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For the first time since The Rock and John Cena competed in the main event of WrestleMania 28 and 29, the same match will headline the biggest event of the calendar for the second consecutive year as Cody Rhodes challenges Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

With that match taking the main event slot, it would not be a surprise if Rollins vs. McIntyre, with CM Punk on commentary, kicked off the night's show.

Much like Lynch vs. Ripley on Saturday, the match would set the tone for the night's festivities.

Most importantly, a potential championship switch would give social media buzz to the event from the get-go, something WWE loves to garner early on.

Bayley's Redemption

Bayley won the Royal Rumble in what should have been the highlight of her career in 2024.

Instead, she quickly sniffed out a deceitful plan by her fellow Damage CTRL teammates Asuka, Kairi Sane, and WWE women's champion Iyo Sky to excommunicate her from the group and, while she fended them off initially, found herself on the receiving end of repeated beatdowns.

WrestleMania provides The Role Model a shot at redemption, a chance to avenge that betrayal that broke her heart and in the process, win a championship for the first time since 2020.

Often forgotten when discussing the revolutionary women that have changed the landscape of professional wrestling since the early days of NXT, her spot on the WrestleMania card presents an opportunity for her to take center stage and have the moment she has long deserved.

Like McIntyre elsewhere on the card, she had her greatest run on the main roster during the pandemic, when no one was in the arena to feed off of.

That wrong could be righted Sunday night.

Brother vs. Brother

Last summer, Jimmy Uso convinced his brother, Jey, to split from the oppressive rule of Roman Reigns and The Bloodline, only to then betray him in the main event of SummerSlam, costing him the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship and setting in motion a sibling rivalry that will culminate Saturday in Philadelphia.

Jimmy has been a thorn in his brother's side, repeatedly costing him championship opportunities and ensuring his success as a singles star is stunted. He refuses to allow Jey to have success that he cannot and at WrestleMania, will look to earn bragging rights by defeating him in one of the most emotionally intense matches of the entire card.

The Showcase of the Immortals has been home to sibling rivalries before.

In 1994, Bret and Owen Hart kicked off the night's proceedings with a five-star classic that remains one of the best matches in the event's four-decade history. In 2009, Matt and Jeff Hardy squared off in an Extreme Rules match.

Will the contest between Jimmy and Jey go the route of the Harts and become one of the seminal matches in WrestleMania history or will it be closer to the Hardys' war of attrition?

The answer awaits in, ironically enough, the City of Brotherly Love.

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