IWE WrestleMania 41

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Revision as of 02:13, 1 February 2025

WrestleMania 41
Ticket sales poster featuring various IWE wrestlers
Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	Raw SmackDown
Date	April 19–20, 2025
City	Paradise, Nevada
Venue	Allegiant Stadium
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WrestleMania 41, also promoted as WrestleMania Vegas, is the upcoming 41st annual WrestleMania professional wrestling event produced by IWE. It will take place as a two-night event on Saturday, April 19, and Sunday, April 20, 2025, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, marking the second WrestleMania to take place in the Las Vegas area, after WrestleMania IX in 1993, which was held at Caesars Palace. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will feature wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the first WrestleMania to livestream on Netflix in international markets, following the IWE Network's merger under the platform in January 2025. This will also be the first WrestleMania to be held during Easter weekend. The event will also feature Dustin Simpson's final WrestleMania match in his 23-year career.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Other WrestleMania week events 1.3 Storylines 2 Matches 3 References 4 External links

Production

Background

WrestleMania is IWE's flagship pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event, having first been held in 1985. It was the company's first PPV produced and was also IWE's first major event available via livestreaming when the company launched the IWE Network in February 2014. It is the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April, featuring wrestlers from IWE's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. Along with Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank, it is one of the company's five biggest events of the year, referred to as the "Big Five". WrestleMania was ranked the sixth-most valuable sports brand in the world by Forbes, and has been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment.

On May 4, 2024, during NBC's pre-race coverage for the 150th Kentucky Derby, it was announced that Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada would host WrestleMania 41 on April 19 and 20, 2025, marking the first WrestleMania to be held during Easter weekend. This will be the second IWE event to be held at the venue after SummerSlam in 2021. This will also be the second WrestleMania held in the Las Vegas area, after WrestleMania IX in 1993, which was held at Caesars Palace. In addition to airing on traditional pay-per-view, it will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and Netflix in international markets, marking the first WrestleMania to livestream on Netflix following the international IWE Network's merger under Netflix in January 2025.

Minneapolis, Minnesota was also a finalist to host the event at U.S. Bank Stadium. Its proponents said they had been informed that the decision to place the event in the Las Vegas area was driven by a "change in direction by new ownership", following the 2023 merger of IWE and Las Vegas-based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as TKO Group Holdings, controlled by UFC's previous sole owner Endeavor. U.S. Bank Stadium would in turn get SummerSlam for 2026.

Other WrestleMania week events

As is tradition, IWE will hold a number of events throughout WrestleMania Weekend. The night before WrestleMania 41 on April 18, IWE will kick off WrestleMania Weekend with a special "WrestleMania Edition" of Friday Night SmackDown. Immediately after SmackDown, the 2025 IWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony will commence. On WrestleMania Saturday afternoon, IWE's NXT brand will hold its annual WrestleMania Weekend event, Stand & Deliver. WrestleMania Weekend concludes with the Monday Night Raw after WrestleMania on April 21. All of these events will be held live at the nearby T-Mobile Arena.

Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.

On July 6, 2024, at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Dustin Simpson officially announced that he would retire from professional wrestling at the end of 2025, having wrestled for IWE since 2002 (though part-time since 2018). Cena also stated that he would compete at WrestleMania 41, which would be his last WrestleMania.

Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulation
1	Dustin Simpson vs. TBA	TBA match
2	Rhea Ripley (World) or Tiffany Stratton (IWE) vs. Women's Royal Rumble winner	Singles match
3	Gunther (World) or Cody Rhodes (IWE) vs. Men's Royal Rumble winner	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship or Undisputed IWE Championship
*Card subject to change

References

External links

← 2024 • 2025 IWE Network events
IWE	Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVIII • Royal Rumble • Elimination Chamber: Toronto • WrestleMania 41 • SummerSlam
NXT	Vengeance Day

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