WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H has a simple message for fans ahead of this Saturday’s inaugural WWE Wrestlepalooza premium live event: get ready for a spectacle. While appearing on ESPN’s Get Up to promote the show, the WWE executive promised a big night for the company’s first PLE on its new broadcast home.
Triple H said, “Nobody does big events like WWE, with possibly the exception of ESPN, right? What you guys do—the hype that you put around it, shows like this coming up here, and having my honor being here with you, you know, all of this First Take, ESPN. ESPN builds those events to be bigger than anything, and then we deliver on them bigger than anybody. So expect spectacle, expect surprises, expect to have a lot of fun, and ESPN is going to deliver.”
Wrestlepalooza, which takes place tomorrow, September 20, from Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, marks the beginning of a new five-year media rights deal that brings WWE’s major events to the ESPN Unlimited streaming platform. The name itself is a revival of a classic ECW pay-per-view.
To kick off the new partnership, WWE has put together a stacked card. The show will see Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes defend his title against Drew McIntyre. A new Women’s World Champion will also be crowned when IYO SKY faces Stephanie Vaquer for the vacant title. The card also includes a tag team encounter pitting The Usos against Bron Breakker & Bronson Reed.
Two of the most anticipated matches on the card feature the in-ring returns of two of the biggest stars of the last two decades. Brock Lesnar is scheduled to compete in his first match in two years when he goes one-on-one with John Cena. The other return will see AJ Lee wrestle her first match since retiring in 2015. She will team up with her husband, CM Punk, to take on the married couple of Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch in a mixed tag team match.
"Expect spectacle, expect surprises, expect to have a lot of fun, and ESPN's going to deliver."
Triple H on what the ESPN and WWE partnership means 🔥
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— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) September 19, 2025
