WWE WrestleMania night one: Start time, results and latest news as The Rock is set to make his official in-ring return alongside Roman Reigns to take on Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins in the main event

Lil Wayne, announced as the greatest rapper of all time, does, something, then introduced Jey Uso.

Jey is incredibly over with the crowd. Expect lots of ‘yeet’ noises from those in attendance.

Jimmy comes out alone. Solo Sikoa will likely join him at some point. I think it’s fair to say he hasn’t flourised quite as much as a singles star as Jey has.

We are underway – Jey wastes no time going after his brother.

Wrestling, eh?

Anyway, next we have just the third WrestleMania match in history that sees two real-life brothers go head-to-head. Jey Uso vs Jimmy Uso.

Last year, these two main evented night one of WrestleMania on the same team. This year, they go up against each other.

Having joined forced to take on The Bloodline and Roman Reigns, Jimmy turned on Jey last year, and the rivalry has been bubbling ever since.

Tonight, they do battle.

WHAT? HAHAHAH! JASON KELCE AND ANE JOHNSON! I LOVE WRESTLING!

No Carlito turn today then, fair enough.

Who on earth? Santos just called for a chair and two massive men in masks stopped him. Not sure who that was entirely.

Rey hits the 619, Andrade connects… REY AND AN ANDRADE WIN!

Who the hell was that?

A really cool double-stacked crossbody early on from Andrade and Rey. Then a little callback as Rey gets his belt ready to whip Dominik, just like last year.

Escobar is trying to de-mask Rey now. No luck.

Everyone is scrapping now. LWO and LDF involved.

Next up is Rey Mysterio and Andrade versus Dominik Mysterio and Santos Escobar.

A lot of hisotry behind this one. Rey was sided by both his opponents at one point in recent times – he was the first father-son tag champion alongside Dominik before the latter turned a couple of years ago, and Rey beat him at last year’s WrestleMania.

Rey then re-formed the LWO with Escobar, who also turned on him and re-formed Legado del Fantasma.

Rey was due to tag with Dragon Lee tonight, but he was ‘taken out’ last night on SmackDown and Andrade stepped in to replace him.

Carlito has been around too. Potential spoiler here – I think he will turn on Rey tonight, having been frustrated that he has not been chosen as his partner at any point.

A real feel-good moment to end that one, then. R Truth has a lot of fans, myself included. He is comedy gold.

I’m slightly surprised The Judgement Day didn’t retain one belt but the two winners are two solid tag teams to carry the belts forward.

Right decision to split the belts too, I think.

JD McDonagh now goes through a table! Falling off a ladder!

Priest is up. Takes Woods’ head off and delivers Razor’s Edge to Kingston.

Priest and Miz are on the ladder, which is destroyed. A big chokeslam is botched because of the dodgy ladder I think. The referee was trying to tell him.

R Truth delives an AA to Priest! He climbs… Judgement Day recover… NO THEY DO NOT! AWESOME TRUTH TAKE THE RAW TITLES!

Gargano of DIY and Dunne of New Catch Republic have just gone through a table and it looked PAINFUL!

R Truth is climbing the ladder… and JD McDonagh stops him! He is not in the match but is in The Judgement Day!

He sets up a ladder… Finn Balor climbs it…Kofi Kingston comes in with a steel chair to stop it!

Bodies everywhere.

A TOWN DOWN UNDER HAVE GOT THE SMACKDOWN TAG TITLES! FROM NOWHERE!

We still have one to go!

It came after DIY and Awesoem Truth had agreed to take one set of titles each. It didn’t end well, and Waller took one set of titles. Though he went through a table seconds later.

Cool moves from New Catch Republic, with Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate – two Brits, by the way – performing moonsaults from the top of a ladder.

R Truth is trying to tag in, I love it. He is so funny.

Now he’s going for the pin. Too good.

The tag match is underway. I say tag match, there is not tagging. A free for all.

It doesn’t take long for the ladders to get involved. Austin Theory and Grayson Waller of A Town Down Under go for the titles early.

One ladder goes down. The other follows.

Chaos early on. Good stuff.

Right, next up we have a ladder match. Tag titles. Six teams. The Judgement Day are the current champions.

New Catch Republic, DIY, The Awesome Truth, A Town Down Under and The New Day make up the competitors.

The interesting thing is that there are two lots of titles here. They were unified a while back, and I expect them to be split here.

The match will continue until both sets of titles are claimed. Expect one team to retrieve one, another the other.

A DX tribute from DIY in the entrances, which are quite quick due to time constraints.

A year crossed successfully, and not many left to take over the reigns.

Ripley is dominant. A good start, I think.

Here’s Mail Sport’s Alex McCarthy with Rhea in Australia earlier this year. For no real reason, to be honest.

More trash talk from Ripley, who orders her opponent to give up.

Lynch going for the second rope Manhandle Slam.

Rhea hits a Ripside onto the buckle! Then in the middle of the ring. It’s over this time!

Lynch kicks out the Riptide this time!

Both women have now kicked out the other’s finisher. We continue. I did think that was the end.

Superplex from Lynch… into the dis-arm-her… surely Ripley won’t tap…

She does not. She instead drops her opponet outside the ring, telling the referee to shut up on the way.

A frogsplash… kick out!

The two women are now slapping the hell out of each other.

The angle here is that Ripley has a bad arm. She’s fallen on it once or twice and has just been thrown into the turnbuckle arm first and then put in the dis-arm-her.

A feel we are nearing the finish of the opening match…

All sorts of submissions from Ripley. Lynch breaks out.

Lynch hits the Manhandle Slam! Her finisher – but Ripley kicks out!

Lync h has just absolutely eaten a knee to the face.

A few of the announcers have been moaning about the cold. A stadium show, of course.

Ripley powers out of an arm bar and powerbombs Lynch out of the move. Three times.

Apparently it ‘feels like’ eight degrees celcius.

I mentioned it earlier – fans are behind Ripley here. ‘Let’s go Mami (Ripley’s nickname)’, the chants.

Apparently Lynch has been really ill this week.

The champion is controlling things early. A bit of showboating. Bit of an underdog, fight from underneath, feel to this one.

Right, Lynch and Ripley are good to go. Becky is out first, the challenger, and Ripley second.

The champion gets a live performance. Motionless in White, I’m told is the name of the band.

Anyway, we are underway. One of the harder matches to predict, I feel.

Big event feel.

The first surprise of ‘Mania.

Michael Cole is bigging him up again. Fair enough I suppose.

Man, I live for this. Welcome to a new time, a new era.

Then he’s off. Making a point of it being his first Mania I think.

Coco Jones (no idea) has sung the national anthem. I forgot they do that.

All of The Judgement Day (bar JD McDonagh) are in action tonight in three different matches.

Ripley is up first. She has declared the group will be dominant.

Ripley and Lynch are about to make their entrances.

The announcers have made their entrances – CM Punk has had a dig at Vince McMahon – and we are ready to go.

Meek Mill starts us off with some words. He’s doing something tonight I think. Not really sure who he is to be honest with you.

Philadelphia. Megastars. Let’s do it!

Rhea Ripley will defend her Women’s World Championship first up tonight then against Becky Lynch.

She has held her title since April 1 last year, which is over a year, having beaten Charlotte Flair at last year’s WrestleMania.

Ripley, still only 27, is by far the most popular star in women’s wrestling right now. She is a baddie – a ‘heel’, wrestling lingo again – but gets cheered every single week.

Lynch is a legend and the rivalry is personal. Will be really intiriguing to see who wins.

Here’s a video of Ripley pushing Austin Theory at the Hall of Fame. Funny.

Logan Paul announced a few weeks ago that his and KSI’s PRIME had signed a partnership with WWE and it would see the logo plastered on the canvas in Premium Live Events.

I wasn’t sure whether to believe it, but it looks like it is true.

It’s… yeah. Interesting.

If you’re a wrestling fan you will know by now that Triple H is running things in WWE these days. It was Vince McMahon for ages. He faces trafficking allegations. Search our site for more information on that, I’m reluctant to talk too much about it tonight.

Speaking as a fan here, WWE has moved forward absolute miles since HHH took charge. I think many agree.

The wrestlers are happier – they have said themselves. WWE is a better place to work – that is know. And for the fans, the stories, characters and events have come on leaps and bounds.

Paul Heyman was inducted into the Hall of Fame last night. He paid tribute to a man named Paul Levesque. Some know him as Triple H.

This is well and truly the Triple H era. And we will launch it – properly – in around 20 minutes.

Right, it’s not been confirmed, but I have reliably information that the order of the card will be as followed…

• Ripley vs Lynch
• Tag title ladder match
• Mysterio and Andrade vs Escobar and… Mysterio
• Uso vs Uso
• Cargill, Belair and Naomi vs Damage CTRL
• Zayn vs Gunther
• Rock and Reigns vs Rhodes and Rollins

Shoutout to PWInsider for the info.

As I mentioned earlier, NXT Stand and Deliver took place earlier and featured some cool matches. Worth checking it out if you can.

It seems that WWE have signed Giula, a Japanese star, and she will be in NXT going forward.

Pretty cool.

I’ve got the Coundown show on the Network and Pat McAfee has just spoken about how Cody Rhodes suffered a fire on his tour bus just days ago.

This wasn’t wrestling stuff, either, this was real life. It really happened.

Read more below. Pretty scary stuff.

Speaking of The Rock… he has been working hard to push his match. Training, getting a ring sent to his house, social media promos…

He shared one final hype package on his social media ahead of tonight. I cannot promise there aren’t expletives, so be wary of them, but he is more than ready.

We are now under an hour until the show gets underway, by the way. 12pm start UK time.

The Rock was on tv last night, inducting his grandmother, Lia Maivia, into the Hall of Fame.

He did turn it into a bit of a shoot, pushing his match for tonight, but we will let him off because of what he has done since his comeback.

It all started earlier this year, when he returned as a good guy – or a ‘face’ in wrestling lingo – and seemed set to face Roman Reigns for his title.

The fans did not like that.

Now we are here. Alex has detailed everything that’s gone on for The Final Boss since then. Well worth a read.

WrestleMania may be yet to start but WrestleMania weekend is already well underway.

SmackDown took place last night, followed by the Hall of Fame and then NXT’s Stand and Deliver was held earlier today.

The go-home episode of SmackDown delivered. The Rock and Roman Reigns were not present, but Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins were, with the former giving his final promo before taking on Roman Reigns tomorrow for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.

Randy Orton and Kevin Owens also attacked Logan Paul, Andrade got into the Mysterio civil war match (more on that later) and The Judgement Day made their presences felt.

I’ve been thinking about how to approach this live blog tonight. I’ve done a lot of football and I don’t support a big team – it’s Gillingham (laughs) – so have never really struggled with being a ‘fan’.

With wrestling, I am a fannnnnnn. And I’m not going to lie, I am hyped. I would assume if you are following our coverage tonight you are a fan too, so let’s be fans together and really enjoy this.

The fans are already fleeing into the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, which will be sold out tonight.

We have a big night ahead – American readers, you are lucky! – so let’s detail the card that is ahead of us tonight.

The match order is unclear, bar the main event…

• Rhea Ripley vs Becky Lynch
• The Judgement Day vs DIY vs The Awesome Truth vs The New Day vs A Town Down Under vs New Catch Republic
• Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill and Naomi vs Damage CTRL
• Rey Mysterio and Andrade vs Dominik Mysterio and Santos Escobar
• Gunther vs Sami Zayn
• Jey Uso vs Jimmy Uso
• The Rock and Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins

Ohhhh boy!

Hello one and all and welcome to Mail Sport’s live coverage for WrestleMania weekend!

It’s the biggest two nights of the year in wrestling and potentially the biggest WrestleMania ever. I think that makes it the biggest weekend in the history of wrestling, right?

I’m Lewis Browning and I’ll be here both nights to talk you through all the action. We have so, so much ahead of us, and I cannot wait.

Strap – and I do not say this lightly – in.