WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Notes Part II: Becky Lynch Wins WWE Women’s IC Title, Bron Breakker Returns & Attacks Seth Rollins, Liv Morgan Wins WWE Women’s World Title, WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Attendance, Bianca Belair Returns & Announces Pregnancy, Randy Orton RKO’s Pat McAfee & Punts Cody Rhode

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Apr 18, 2026

Becky Lynch Wins WWE Women’s Intercontinental Title

Saturday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada featured Becky Lynch defeating AJ Lee to become the new WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion.

This was Lynch’s third WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship victory in her WWE career.

Bron Breakker Makes Surprise Return & Attacks Seth Rollins

Saturday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event also featured Bron Breakker making a surprise return from injury.

During Seth Rollins’ match against Gunther, Rollins hit a Pedigree to Gunther onto the announcer’s table that didn’t break. Rollins then stood on the other announcer’s table and ran leaping off the table and hitting a curb stomp to Gunther on the other table that still didn’t break. As the referee was checking on Gunther, Breakker ran out and laid out Rollins with a spear. Breakker then tossed Rollins back into the ring leading to Rollins recovering enough to stare down Breakker only for Gunther to then lock in a Sleeper hold onto Rollins for the referee stoppage victory.

Following the match, Breakker ran out again and laid out Rollins with another running spear down the ramp and came close to also laying himself out by landing almost right on his head from it.

This was Breakker’s first appearance since this past February due to a hernia injury and surgery.

Liv Morgan Wins WWE Women’s World Title

Saturday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event also featured Liv Morgan defeating Stephanie Vaquer to become the new WWE Women’s World Champion.

This was Morgan’s third ever WWE Women’s World Championship victory in her WWE career.

WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Attendance

Saturday’s WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event also featured host John Cena announcing that the official attendance for this year’s Night 1 show was 50,816.

WrestleTix reported that WWE had sold and distributed around 50,386 tickets for the show as of Saturday afternoon.

Bianca Belair Makes Surprise Returns & Announces Pregnancy

Saturday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event also featured Bianca Belair making a surprise appearance.

Following John Cena’s announcement for the attendance of this year’s Night 1 show, Belair’s music played and she came out to the ring wearing a long blue roses robe.

Belair talked about how you can’t spell WrestleMania without E-S-T. Belair continued stating it’s been a long time since she’s been out here and thanked everyone for all the support they have given to her. Belair then stated that you can’t have WrestleMania without a few surprises and she needs to add one more to the attendance list. Belair proceeded to open her robe revealing a big pregnancy bump.

Cena got back into the ring and embraced Belair. Belair announced that the E-S-T is having a baby. Cena gave some congratulatory words to Belair and announced a newly updated attendance of 50,817 for tonight’s show to now include the youngest superstar in history.

Randy Orton Hits Pat McAfee with RKO & Punts Cody Rhode

Saturday’s WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 event also featured Randy Orton hitting an RKO to Pat McAfee and a punt to Cody Rhodes.

Prior to the start of the Undisputed WWE Championship match between Orton and Rhodes, McAfee hit Rhodes with a microphone and him and Orton attacked Rhodes. This led to Jelly Roll coming out to deal with McAfee and laid him out with a splash through the announcer’s table. This led to McAfee being stretchered out to the back.

Near the end of the match, Rhodes poked Orton in the eye after acting heelish for most of it leading to blinded Orton hitting an RKO to the referee thinking it was Rhodes. After some more action, McAfee ran out wearing a neck brace and a WWE official shirt after Orton hit Rhodes with an RKO. McAfee went for the count but Rhodes kicked out at two leading to Orton smirking. Orton then proceeded to lay out McAfee with an RKO that caused enough of a distraction for Rhodes to hit a Cross Rhodes to Orton for the pinfall victory.

Following the match, Rhodes posed in the ring with his title leading to Orton snatching it away from him and struck Rhodes in the head with it. Orton then followed it with a punt kick to Rhodes’ head laying him out as the show went to a close.

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