Wrestlemania 35 Night 2 is one half of the 35th annual Professional Wrestling event sponsored, produced, and aired by WWE. It was held for wrestlers under the RAW and Smackdown brands. Night 2 took place on Sunday April 7th, 2019 at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The Main card, just like Night 1, featured 7 matches in total, including the Triple Threat match main event between Bobby Lashley, Zante Maverick, and the 2019 Royal Rumble winner, Cesaro. It also featured a 5 star winning Hell in a Cell Tag Team match between the Usos and the Street Profits and the climax to the critically received rivalry between Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa.
This is also the first time the Chyna Memorial Battle Royal would make it's first appearance, as well as the first Wrestlemania to have someone who lived in the host state main event the Pay-Per-View as Zante Maverick would main event the show. It also made history for having two people of color main event the show.
Background[]
WrestleMania is WWE's flagship pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event, having first been held in 1985. It was the company's first pay-per-view produced and was also WWE's first major event available via livestreaming when the company launched the WWE Network in February 2014. It is the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April. It was the first of WWE's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, referred to as the "Big Four". WrestleMania is ranked the sixth most valuable sports brand in the world by Forbes, and has been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment. Much like the Super Bowl, cities bid for the right to host the year's edition of WrestleMania.
Announced on January 26th, 2018, Wrestlemania 35 Nights 1 & 2 was the 4th Wrestlemania (since Mania IV, ManiaV, and Mania 29) to be held in East Rutherford, New Jersey and in MetLife Stadium and the Sixth to be held in the New York Metropolitan area (after Mania 1, Mania 2, Mania X, Mania XX, and Mania 29).
There are four official songs for the event with both nights having two each. For Night 2, the official theme songs were All the Stars by Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, and Unsainted by Slipknot.
On the March 11th episode of Monday Night RAW, a returning Miz revealed he, alongside Rapper Snoop Dogg, would host the events but separately, as The Miz would host Night 1, while Snoop Dogg would host Night 2. Snoop Dogg revealed during the pre-show of night 1 that him, Jay Z, and Linkin Park would perform at Night 2 of the event.
Storylines[]
Unlike Night 1, Night 2 comprised of 11 match total, with 1 match being on the Pre-Show. The matches resulted from scripted storylines, in which wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the RAW and Smackdown brand. With storylines produced on their weekly television shows, Monday Night, RAW and Friday Night, Smackdown.
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Results[]
No. | Results | Stipulation | Time |
---|---|---|---|
Pre-Show | R-Truth defeated Drake Maverick, Cole Quinn, Elias
No Way Jose, and Shane McMahon via pinfall |
Hardcore 6-Way for the Hardcore Championship | 30:45 |
1 | Naomi wins after last eliminating
Sonya Deville |
Chyna Memorial Battle Royal | 13:34 |
2 | AJ Styles (c) defeated Kevin Owens, and Batista
via pinfall |
Triple Threat match for the
Intercontinental Championship |
11:32 |
3 | KENTA defeated Malakai Black via pinfall | Singles Match | 16:47 |
4 | The Undertaker defeats Finn Balor via
pinfall |
Singles Match | 8:24 |
5 | The Undisputed Era defeated The Hardy Boyz, Oney Lorcan,
and The War Raiders |
4-on-4 Tornado Tag Team match | 13:12 |
6 | Kairi Sane defeated Charlotte Flair (c),
Asuka, and Akame Yamamoto via pinfall |
Fatal 4-Way match for the Smackdown Women's Championship | 9:45 |
7 | The Street Profits defeated the Usos (c)
via pinfall |
Tornado Tag Team Hell in a Cell Match for the
World Tag Team Championships (2017 version) |
25:34 |
8 | Johnny Gargano defeated Tommaso Ciampa via pinfall
(2-1) |
2-out of-3 Falls Count Anywhere match | 40:00 |
9 | Shinsuke Nakamura defeated
The Rock via pinfall |
Singles Match | 19:48 |
10 | Cesaro defeated Bobby Lashley (c), and
Zante Maverick via pinfall |
Triple Threat match for the | 30:56 |
(C)=Champion