WrestleMania Confirms Return to Las Vegas

By Scott Roeben, on June 11 2025
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This year’s WrestleMania 42 was such a smash, WWE has decided to bring the event back to Las Vegas in 2026. The event was originally announced for New Orleans, but money talks. The Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority gave WWE $5 million in taxpayer money to lure it to Las Vegas in 2025. Don’t get us started.

Las Vegas will host WrestleMania 42 at Allegiant Stadium on April 18 and 19, 2026, but the party won’t be limited to those two dates. It’s a whole thing.

No roadwork. No gridlock. No covering up the Bellagio fountains for months. No bankrupting small businesses. No need for casinos to invent entire music festivals just to counter the drop in business leading up to the event. Just good, old-fashioned fake wrasslin’ and Las Vegas couldn’t be happier to snag this event for 2026 and possibly beyond.

There’s a very real possibility A.I. is going to get its ass kicked.

This is typically the place where we’d toot our own horn about breaking the news worldwide WrestleMania 41 was coming to Las Vegas, but we are starting to get hair on our palms, so we’ll just skip the horn-tooting for once. We like listing our successes so our haters have something to ignore when they’re making the iron-clad case we suck harder than a Dyson with daddy issues.

Fun fact! WWE started in 1952 when “Jess” McMahon and Toots Mondt created Capitol Wrestling Corp. Apparently, the comedy gods didn’t want us to skip the tooting after all. We challenge you to find another Las Vegas blog that does foreshadowing. We’ll wait.

WWE was WWF (World Wrestling Federation) for a minute, but they lost a legal battle with the World Wildlife Fund and were forced to change it to WWE. Yes, a professional wrestling company lost to pandas and nobody’s talking about it.

If you didn’t think we were going to let A.I. take a stab at that, you do not know this blog at all.

No wonder women choose bear in this whole “man or bear” thing. Adorable!

The point is WrestleMania 41 was held in Las Vegas this past April and let’s just say its success surprised even the most optimistic suit at WWE.

It was the highest-grossing event in WWE history and sold more than 124,000 tickets over two nights at Allegiant Stadium.

As mentioned, the two official event nights are augmented by a slew of themed events, some sanctioned by WWE, many just glomming onto wrestling fever.

In addition to two nights of WrestleMania, WWE will bring “Monday Night Raw,” “Friday Night SmackDown,” “Stand & Deliver” and the multi-day WWE World fan experience to Las Vegas, just for starters.

Yes, professional wrestling is dopey. Yes, it’s a showcase for truly terrible scripts and even worse actors. Yes, it’s mostly for men too manly to admit they love soap operas and muscular men in super tight spandex.

But there’s no denying WWE is a spectacle and Vegas is all about spectacles.

Don your glitter cape and gird your loins, WrestleMania returns to Las Vegas in 2026.