WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 Notes: John Cena Kicks Off Night 2, Trick Williams Wins WWE U.S Title, Demon Balor Wins First Match Since 2019, Rhea Ripley Wins WWE Women’s Title, WrestleMania 42 Night 2 & Total Attendance, Danhausen Appears, CM Punk Uses “Miseria Cantare”, Roman Reigns Wins WWE World Title

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Apr 19, 2026

John Cena Kicks Off WrestleMania 42 Night 2

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada featured John Cena officially kicking off the second night of this year’s event as the host.

At the start of the show, Cena came out to the ring and talked about how we had an “incredible Night One” show to the lack of a reaction from the crowd and claimed that “we’re going to have a historic Night Two.” Cena stated that for the first time ever, WrestleMania is live on ESPN, which the crowd responded back with a chorus of boos. Cena continued stated that means we have to kick off with something big and welcomed everyone to WrestleMania.

Trick Williams Wins WWE United States Title

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured Trick Williams defeating Sami Zayn to become the new WWE United States Champion.

This was Williams’ first ever WWE United States Championship victory in his WWE career.

Demon Balor Wins First Match Since 2019

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured “The Demon” Finn Balor defeating Dominik Mysterio in a Street Fight match.

This was Balor’s first victory in his Demon Balor persona since 2019.

Rhea Ripley Wins WWE Women’s Title

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured Rhea Ripley defeating Jade Cargill to become the new WWE Women’s Champion.

This was Ripley’s second ever WWE Women’s Championship victory in her WWE career.

WrestleMania 42 Night 2 & Total Attendance

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured host John Cena announcing that the official attendance for this year’s Night 2 show was 55,255.

Cena also announced that the official combined total for both nights of WrestleMania 42 was 106,072.

WrestleTix reported that WWE had sold and distributed around 51,266 tickets for Night 2 of WrestleMania 42 as of Sunday afternoon.

Danhausen Makes Surprise Appearance

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured Danhausen making a surprise appearance.

During the show, host John Cena came out to announced the official attendance for the show and for the total of this year’s two-night event. Cena then talked about how his hosting duties for the night were now concluded and wanted to give a heartfelt thanks to everyone. This led to The Miz and Kit Wilson showing up to interrupt and after some words, The Miz stated that he didn’t get a WrestleMania moment last year and he’s not leaving until he gets a moment at WrestleMania 42. Cena responded greeting The Miz and having no clue who the other person was and then told The Miz he can have the ring for his moment.

This led to Danhausen’s music playing with a group of little Danhausens accompanying him to the ring. The little Danhausens danced in front of a confused Miz and Williams. Dahausen stated “Greetings, humans. I am Danhausen, very nice, very evil… and I have finally made it to WrestleMania-hausen. Speaking of which, I have got something to say… to YOU!” Danhausen then pointed at Cena who gave a shocked reaction in response. Danhausen told Cena that he is a huge fan and reached out his hand for a shake. An angry Miz responded telling Danhausen not to shake Cena’s hand and how this is turning into a circus. Williams then shoved one of the little Danhausens resulting in Danhausen telling another little one to get Williams, which this person did by punching Williams in the groin. The rest of the little Danhausens then stomped on Williams before The Miz pushed them all away. This led to Danhausen punching Miz in his groin and did a cursed Five Knuckle Shuffle to Miz. Danhausen then went up to Cena and did the “You Can’t See Me” taunt leading to a puff of smoke going off and him akwardly still being in the ring when it started to disappear. Danhausen then scurried his way out of the ring to hide under it.

CM Punk Brings Back “Miseria Cantare” For His Entrance

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured CM Punk bringing back his iconic “Miseria Cantare” entrance theme song by AFI for his entrance for his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against Roman Reigns.

This was the first time Punk has used the song for an entrance since AEW Revolution 2022 in March of 2022.

This song is most known for being Punk’s entrance song during his career in Ring of Honor.

Roman Reigns Wins WWE World Heavyweight Title

Sunday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 event also featured Roman Reigns defeating CM Punk to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

This was Reigns’ first ever WWE World Heavyweight Championship victory in his WWE career.

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