WrestleMania will be part of ESPN’s new direct-to-conjumer streaming service, starting in 2026, thanks to an agreement between World Wrestling Entertainment and ESPN.
The deal announced on Wednesday includes two-night programs such as WrestleMania and SummerSlam, as well as other WWE premium live events including Royal Rumble, Survivor Series and Money in the Bank. The WWE ESPN will produce events for platforms, which will serve as their special American domestic home.
“WWE has a huge, dedicated and emotional fan base that we encourage super-service on our new ESPN DTC platform,” ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro said. “This agreement, which introduces the most important WWE events of the year, bolces our unprecedented content portfolio and helps our streaming to run the future.”
Breaking News: WWE Premium Live Events are led @ESPN Platform in America starting in 2026 pic.twitter.com/UD4KOIQYBG
– WWE (@WWE) August 6, 2025
Apart from this, all premium live events for ESPN include the opportunity to stream the WWE’s former and post-event show.
“We are proud to strengthen ‘E’ in ESPN at such exciting turn in ESPN,” TKO President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Shapiro said in a statement. “WWE premium live events are famous for the type of rich story, unreliable tricks of athleticism can not, cultural tentpol experiences that have become synonymous with ESPN. Through our UFC relationship, we have experienced the presence of a firesand, how can we have a presence of an ESPN, and we both companies can have a presence for both companies, and we both companies can have a presence for both companies, and we have an extraordinary share for both companies at a time. Will be. “
ESPN will launch its streaming service on August 21 with a price point of $ 29.99 per month and named the linear network: ESPN.
Direct-to-conjumer service will allow users to obtain all seven domestic linear networks of ESPN in addition to ESPN on ABC and many other streaming options.
The WWE events first streammed the peacock in 2025.
