Well, night one of WrestleMania 42 is in the books. It was a fine night, with some mixed responses online (but isn’t that always the case?). Here are my thoughts.

Bets Match of the night: Seth Rollins vs. Gunther. Hard hitting. Tense battle. Saw the return of Braun Breakker. Seth and Gunther proved that they could bring it even with a limited time for build.

Worst Match of the Night: Liv Morgan vs. Stephanie Vaquer. It was just too short. They needed another ten minutes of action to really sell this, and the ending with the Judgment Day and their “numbers advantage” is an old fallback to use in this big of a stage.

Best Moment: Return of Paige. Her return had been spoiled, but it did not damage the impact or the pop for the returning Diva.

Worst Moment: Too many commercials. Is this going to be the pay off for being on ESPN? Matches were too short and there were too many ads.

Best entrance: Cody Rhodes: Memories of the Past. His series of outfits led beautifully into the all gold one he came down to the ring in. Special shout out to Seth Rollins literal smoking jacket.

Worst entrance: Liv Morgan. Without a doubt the biggest, most cringe-worth moment was her lip synch of the new song she recorded. The dance moves were okay, but hard to listen to.

Match Order for me

1. Gunther defeats Seth Rollins
2. Cody Rhodes defeats Randy Orton- gets punted for his troubles
3. Jacob Fatu defeats Drew McIntyre
4. Paige and Brie Bella win Women’s Tag Team Championship
5. Becky Lynch defeats AJ Lee
6. The Usos and LA Knight defeats the Vision with iShow Speed.
7. Liv Morgan defeats Stephanie Vaquer

Other standout moments

• iShow Speed and his face turn, splashing Logan Paul through the announce table from the top of the post.
• Randy Orton RKOs Pat McAfee after a failed pin attempt. Why didn’t Pat deliver a fast count?
• Jelly Roll gave Pat an elbow drop through the announce table before main event gets started.
• The Hall of Fame class is introduced. Sid Vicious’s kid is there despite the scathing post he put on X
• Seth’s black contact lenses. They were cool.
• Bianca Belair returned to announce that she was pregnant! Congrats to Bianca and Montez.
• John Cena was solid in his two moments. Need Cena and Danhousen before Wrestlemania 42 is over.
• The Danhousen blimp flying around Allegiant Stadium.

Other bad moments

• Wonder Years performing Becky Lynch’s theme. Lip synch?
• Too many commericals.
• Matches too short
• Crowd in Las Vegas was not great. They had their moments, but they were not consistently strong.

The second night card always looked stronger and I do think it will deliver at a higher level than night one. WWE really needs to drop the commercials and give their talent more time to shine.

Overall grade for Night one: B