WWE Title Match Official For WrestleMania 39 Night 2

Cody Rhodes confirms on Raw world title match will close out Sunday's show.

by Scott Carlson
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Ever since WWE started holding WrestleMania during a two-night period, the company has played the actual cards for each night close to the vest until shortly before the PLE actually airs, leaving which night matches take place up for speculation.

But on Raw Monday night, Cody Rhodes confirmed what many assumed to be the case for his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship match against Roman Reigns: The two will close out WrestleMania 39 on Sunday, 2 April, the second night of the big show.

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During an impassioned, fiery in-ring promo, the American Nightmare repeatedly referenced "April 2nd" as the date he pins Roman and becomes the first Rhodes to win the WWE Championship.

Truthfully, this never really was in doubt. Reigns/Rhodes is by far the biggest match on the card(s) and the only one that could close out the show. But this was an emphatic confirmation of what will main event Sunday's show.

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What main-events Saturday night's show is still up for grabs, whether it's a women's title match or the expected Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match. Given how cold the Raw women's title feud is and how underwhelming Charlotte Flair's run as SmackDown Women's Champion has been, it's easily conceivable that the Bloodline story gets both main event slots.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.