WrestleMania 42

List of WrestleMania 42 Rematches and Return Matchups

Every WrestleMania 42 match that is a rematch of a previous WrestleMania or major WWE event bout.

2 itemsUpdated Mar 17, 2026

WrestleMania 42 features several compelling rematches — rivalries revisited at a higher emotional and narrative stakes. Chief among them is CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns, a re-run of their WrestleMania 41 encounter, now stripped of third-party involvement and charged with genuine personal animosity...

#	Name	New stakes	Previous encounter
1	CM Punk vs. Roman Reigns — WrestleMania 42 Rematch of WrestleMania 41 Night 1 Triple Threat At WrestleMania 41 Night 1 in 2025, CM Punk competed in a Triple Threat match against Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins for the WWE/World Championship. WrestleMania 42 strips this down to a pure one-on-one encounter for the World Heavyweight Championship — no third parties, no distractions, just two men who genuinely dislike each other in the most personal WrestleMania main event in years.	One-on-one World Heavyweight Championship	WrestleMania 41 Night 1 Triple Threat — Reigns vs. Punk v...
2	Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton New rivalry — Personal history dates to Rhodes' WWE debut While not technically a WrestleMania rematch, Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton share one of the longest and most intertwined histories in WWE. Orton was one of Rhodes' earliest mentors, and their very first match together was among Cody's earliest professional bouts. This WrestleMania encounter represents the ultimate and most painful chapter of that shared history.	—	Decade-long career overlap — no previous WrestleMania sin...

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