Summary
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Wrestlemania 42 confirmed New Orleans on April 11 and 12, 2026.
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Rock confirmed the location on Smackdown.
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Caesars Superdome to welcome Wrestlemania for the third time.
With WrestleMania 41 quickly approaching, WWE decided to confirm a little more than a year in advance exactly where Wrestlemania 42 would take place. The show is confirmed for April 11 and 12, 2026 and will return to a place that the “Vitrine des Immortals” has used several times before.
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The announcement was made by a member of the TKO Group Holdings Boards of Directors and “The Final Boss”, the Rock, when he made a special appearance in the episode of Smackdown of this evening before facing the WWE champion, Cody Rhodes.
Wrestlemania returns to New Orleans
Typical WWE fashion, the location of Wrestlemania 42 in 2026 was confirmed shortly before Wrestlemania 41 occurred here in a few months. For the third time in the history of Wrestlemania, the biggest show of the year is Let’s go back to New Orleans and the Superdome Caesars on April 11 and 12 of next year.
There are very few places that have been able to welcome Wrestlemania several times, with Madison Square Garden, Metlife Stadium and the Skydome being some of the others to hold such a distinction. This marks the third time that WWE has welcomed Wrestlemania in the Superdome Caesars, with Wrestlemanias 30 and 34 being the other events held there.
Previous Wrestlemanias in New Orleans
The Superdome Caesars, previously known as Mercedes-Benz Superdome, may contain around 73,000 to 76,000 people, the record presence of the place from Wrestlemania 34, which held around 78,100 people in 2018. Wrestlemania 30 saw attendance from around 60,000 to 65,000 people. in 2014.
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