WWE Wrestlemania 40 Live Updates: Sami Zayn is your new WWE Intercontinental Champion.
WWE Wrestlemania 40 Live Updates: In one of the biggest unexpected results in the history of WrestleMania, Sami Zayn was crowned the new Intercontinental Champion when he ended Gunther’s 666-day reign as champion. After taking a brutal beating at the hands of the ring-general, Sami dug deep and gathered every fiber of his being to pull through and pin Gunther after three Helluva Kicks and a brain-buster off the top rope. Gunther hadn’t been pinned as he left behind The Honky Tonk Man’s 445-day tenure as IC champion. He has beaten all that have come his way 0 Kevin Owens, The Miz, Sheamus, Drew McIntyre.…Read More
After Triple H kicked off his first official WrestleMania fully in charge, The Game lived up to his promise. He welcomed the fans to ‘a new era’ before the show kicked off with the Women’s Heavyweight Championship. Rhea Ripley and Becky Lynch went at each other for almost half an hour before MAMI conquered The Man with a rip-tide to retain her title. It was last year at WrestleMania 39 that Ripley defeated Charlotte Flair in a match-of-the-year candidate and has held on to the title ever since.
In the six-pack ladder match, Team Awesome Truth, comprising The Miz and R-Truth went back in time and won the WWE Raw tag-team championship whereas Grayson Waller and Austin Theory captured the Smackdown tag titles. The 6-team tag match was followed by a traditional one where Rey Mysterio and Andrade defeated Dominik Mysterio and Santos Escobar. To top it all, Jey Uso beat Jimmy Uso in a brother vs brother match, that lived up to the expectations. It was physical, it was brutal, it was emotional with a bit of compassion too.
There is no day bigger in sports entertainment than today and tomorrow. After months of anticipation and build-up, we are finally here at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia… for WWE WrestleMania 40… also called WrestleMania XL. The 40th anniversary of the holy grail of professional wrestling. WrestleMania is pro wrestling’s equivalent of the Superbowl. Heck, many in the United States believe that it has long surpassed it. Each year, ever since it began way back in 1984, the legend of WrestleMania has kept on growing, to an extent that today it is the pioneer of the entertainment industry. An icon in its own rights. And as WWE presents you the 40th edition with much pomp and aplomb, we guarantee you that Day 1 promises to be one hell of an opener.
This WrestleMania has everything – legends returning, brother colliding and as many as three championships of the line. The main-event today is the star-studded tag-team match featuring The Rock and Roman Reigns up against Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes. It is being dubbed as the biggest tag-team match of all time and there is little evidence to prove otherwise. The Rock, once the People’s Champion, has turned over a leaf that hasn’t been seen in 20 years. Embracing his dark side, The Brahma Bull, now known as The Final Boss has conveyed his allegiance to his cousin Roman Reigns at The Bloodline. And it is up to the alliance of once rivals, now friends Rhodes and Rollins, whose combined aim is to put an end to Roman’s historic 1300-plus days as WWE Undisputed Universal Champion to an end.
This is what it all boils down to. Think about all those moments. When Hulk Hogan body-slammed Andre The Giant in from of 93,000 strong at the Silver Dome. When Shawn Michaels jumped off the ladder in 1994. When The Austin era began. When Brock Lesnar Broke The Undertaker’s 21-match undefeated streak. When HBK retired Shawn Michaels… or when Cody attempts to finish his story. Stay tuned. You may become part of history over the next 30 hours.