Roman Reigns set to extend WrestleMania main event streak in Las Vegas
It’s nicknamed ‘The Grandest Stage Of Them All’, and Roman Reigns now leads the way for being the event’s most recognizable superstar.
Roman Reigns, nicknamed The ‘O.T.C.’ (Original Tribal Chief), will compete in the main event at WrestleMania 42, WWE’s annual flagship show, for a record-breaking sixth time in a row.
On Sunday night of the weekend-long event, Reigns is set to do battle with fierce rival CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship.
This will send him clear of Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan, who headlined five consecutive ‘Mania’s between 1989 and 1993.
Hogan, who passed away in 2025, also held the record for most WrestleMania main events performed in (male) before Reigns stripped that from him last year: making this the 11th time in WrestleMania’s 42-year history that Reigns has closed the show.
At Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, USA, he faces the Second-City Saint as he looks to win the World Heavyweight Championship for the first time in his illustrious career.
Those two superstars also featured in last year’s Saturday main event in a Triple-Threat match with Seth Rollins – a match they both ended up losing.
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Reigns made his professional wrestling debut in 2010 and went on to his first ever WrestleMania main event in 2015, facing Brock Lesnar and (eventually) Seth Rollins.
He then faced Triple H, The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar again over the next three years, before then missing the main events in 2019 and 2020 due to booking decisions and the COVID-19 pandemic.
He began the current streak of main events leading to today in 2021, with a third main event in seven years against longtime foe Brock Lesnar before then facing Edge and Daniel Bryan in 2022, Cody Rhodes in 2023 and 2024 and the Triple Threat with Rollins and Punk in 2025.
For many of those, Reigns was holding silverware and has been labelled as the ‘face of the company’.
He has won the Royal Rumble match twice, in 2015 and 2026, and held WWE’s top title for 1,316 days, the longest title reign since 1988.
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His gimmick of the ‘Tribal Chief’ changed Reigns’ fortunes in 2021 as he turned from over-pushed babyface to villainous leader of ‘The Bloodline’.
The Bloodline was a group featuring his real-life family members who were also superstars in WWE, including cousins Jimmy and Jey Uso, and their brother Solo Sikoa.
He was also a part of a WrestleMania main event with his other cousin, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in 2024. Many fans expect them to face each other one day in a headline-making clash.
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