WrestleMania 40 Night 1 preview: The Rock makes in-ring return for crucial tag-team match

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WrestleMania 40 descends on Philadelphia beginning on Saturday night in what’s expected to be the biggest WWE premium live event in the company’s history.

WrestleMania will take place at Lincoln Financial Field – the home of the Philadelphia Eagles. The weather is supposed to be cleared up after rain swamped the Northeast for much of the week.

WWE’s chief content officer, Paul "Triple H" Levesque, revealed the card for the first night of WrestleMania earlier in the week. One match will have implications for Night 2 and there will be three matches with championship implications.

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Here’s what fans can expect.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Cody Rhodes face off on stage during the WWE Wrestlemania XL Kickoff on Feb. 8, 2024, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Louis Grasse/PXimages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The path to the biggest tag-team match in WWE history was filled with jagged stones.

Cody Rhodes won the Royal Rumble match for the second year in a row, conceivably setting up a rematch with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 for the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship. A wrench was thrown into that plan when The Rock came back to WWE and challenged Reigns for the championship to set up what may have been a major event.

Seth Rollins even made the case for Rhodes to fight him for the World Heavyweight Championship, which Rollins won earlier in the year to become the top dog on RAW. But even as it appeared Rhodes was going to pass the torch to The Rock, swelling fan support influenced "The American Nightmare" to face off against Reigns for the title.

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