WrestleMania 33 live updates: Results and highlights throughout Sunday

WrestleMania is always the biggest event of the year in wrestling, and WrestleMania is certainly no exception. Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida was the center of the wrestling world on Sunday, with a huge match card jam-packed with massively important and even historic matches for the Ultimate Thrill Ride. Over 75,000 WWE fans packed the stadium for an amazing night of wrestling, and from start to finish it was an incredible ride.

From Kevin Owens trying to get revenge on former best friend Chris Jericho, to John Cena and Nikki Bella trying to put down The Miz and Maryse, to Goldberg facing Brock Lesnar one more time, to Roman Reigns battling the Undertaker, to Seth Rollins facing Triple H in an unsanctioned match, to AJ Styles’ grudge match with Shane McMahon, to Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton’s intensely psychological battle over the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, to two excellent Women’s Championship matches, there was something for everyone in the WrestleMania 33 card. It was a long, emotional, intense, and fantastic night of wrestling.

These two giants have been on a crash course ever since Roman Reigns eliminated The Undertaker from the Royal Rumble, with the Dead Man making it clear that he had no respect and no love for Reigns. The big Samoan was almost uncharacteristically disrespectful of arguably the greatest legend in WWE history, setting up a no-disqualification grudge match that could only be in the main event of WrestleMania.

The powerful Reigns certainly had his moments in the early stages of the match, but the otherworldly ring finesse and awareness of Undertaker allowed him to find answers for almost everything the Big Dog threw at him and dominate the early stages of the match. That is, until Reigns speared Undertaker through the Spanish announce table, a huge move that took a massive toll on the aging Dead Man.

Even Undertaker’s trademark rise from the dead wasn’t enough to let him immediately take control of the match again, with Reigns pouncing on him as soon as he rolled back into the ring and inflicting huge amounts of punishment on him. He tried to fight out of it with a Last Ride powerbomb that he couldn’t quite hit all of, forcing Undertaker to introduce a chair to the match to try and overcome the younger man.

Undertaker worked over Reigns’ back with a chair before going for a chokeslam, but Reigns rolled out of the ring to stay out of harm’s way. That gave him the opening he needed to recover and start hitting Undertaker with Superman punches, landing two before Undertaker snatched him out of midair for a huge chokeslam onto the chair.

Reigns barely managed to kick out before the referee counted to three, forcing Undertake to follow up with a Tombstone piledriver that Reigns again could only barely kick out of, much to Undertaker’s shock. The Dead Man tried to get him up for another Tombstone, but Reigns wriggled away before landing another Superman punch that dropped Undertaker flat on his back.

Undertaker would eat a big spear from Reigns, but used it as an opportunity to try to lock in the Hell’s Gate submission that won him so many matches in his prime. He couldn’t quite sink it in all the way, though, letting Reigns get to the bottom rope to break the hold and get some separation.

That lead to an intense moment, with Undertaker crawling back to the chair still inside the ring, only for Reigns to step on it as he reached it before snatching it away and absolutely hammering Undertaker with it over and over again. Another spear still wasn’t enough to put the Phenom away, but a third spear left him hardly able to get back up on his feet. An intense exchange of words seemed to fire up Reigns, who ran the ropes repeatedly to build up as much momentum as he could before hitting one last huge spear — the spear that finished the Undertaker off, seemingly for good.

Orlando local Naomi got her WrestleMania moment in a big way, coming out on top of an intense and contentious Six Pack Challenge for the SmackDown Women’s title. It was a fast, high-action match, and it ended with Naomi locking defending champion Alexa Bliss in a unique submission hold that she just couldn’t break out of.

The match was flying from the start, with Becky Lynch having to deal with continuous interference from Carmella’s hanger-on, James Ellsworth, before suplexing him out of the ring. Natalya nearly had a win with a double Sharpshooter on Naomi and Carmella before Mickie James came crashing in for a nearfall of her own, with Alexa clearing the ring in short order.

That set up the finish, with Naomi overcoming her recent injuries to get the biggest win of her career before dancing her way out in front of an excited home town crowd. It was easily the highlight of her career, and a well deserved moment indeed.

This is a wait that many longtime fans have been waiting for: a rematch of WrestleMania 20, the potential revenge of Brock Lesnar on Goldberg for his humiliating defeats at Survivor Series and the Royal Rumble, two legendary giants of wrestling going toe to toe for perhaps the biggest title in wrestling today.

Their last two encounters ended quickly, with Lesnar failing to get any offense in before getting speared and Jackhammered into oblivion. This time he opened the match strong, hitting three huge German suplexes before Goldberg replied with a series of spears, including one through the barricade at ringside.

After getting back in the ring the two went back and forth, with Brock having to dig deep to kick out of another Jackhammer. Goldberg tried to finish off his rival, but Brock vaulted over another spear that sent Goldberg into the ringpost shoulder-first. From there it was all Lesnar, who wound up ten German suplexes on Goldberg before putting him up for an F5 that put a quick end to the match.

It was a short match, but an intense and action-packed one that didn’t lack for serious impact. Now that Brock Lesnar is the Universal Champion, the WWE locker room needs to look out, because The Beast is back in top form.

This deeply psychological rivalry finally reached fruition at WrestleMania 33, and both Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt continued playing their intense mind games with one another. It started from the entrances, with Orton walking down the ramp atop an image of a creeping viper, his totemic animal, and continued with Bray Wyatt seemingly projecting images of maggots and graveworms onto the ring during the match.

Those images seemed to distrub Orton — not to mention the referee, who bailed out of the ring in fear each time the images appeared — and the Viper looked like he was thrown well off his game. Bray was in full control of the match early on, but an RKO hit outside the ring swung the momentum firmly in Orton’s favor for a time.

Orton couldn’t take advantage, though, failing to his his trademark punt and then another RKO, ultimately eating a vicious Sister Abigail from Bray in the process. One finisher wasn’t enough to finish off Orton, though, forcing Bray to collect himself and keep pushing on. As Bray went for another Sister Abigail, Orton hit an RKO out of nowhere, pinning Bray and silencing a shocked crowd. It was a shocking win, especially coming at a time when it looked like Bray was taking control, and fans can’t help but wonder what’s coming next for these two with such a sudden finish to a match that was set up by such an intense and bizarre rivalry.

This has been an ugly, passionate rivalry between a former master-disciple pair, with the injured Seth Rollins rightfully feeling betrayed by the COO of WWE after Triple H betrayed him and gave the WWE Universal Championship to Kevin Owens in the summer. After months of Rollins calling Triple H out, The Game has been torturing Rollins of late, using his enforcer Samoa Joe to re-injure the knee that forced Rollins to give up the WWE World Heavyweight championship a year and a half ago, and attacking the knee himself repeatedly. With Rollins not cleared to compete in a normal match, Triple H offered him a no holds barred, unsanctioned match, forcing Rollins to sign a deal saying that WWE and The Game wouldn’t be held responsible for anything that happened to him in the match.

Once the match got underway, after Rollins symbolically bringing a torch to the entrance ramp and changing the rampway image to flames with it, Triple H started working over that knee to try to slow down the explosive moveset that Rollins brings to the table. He and his wife, Stephanie McMahon, used every trick in the book in this no-disqualification match, continuously battering the injured star’s knee at every opportunity.

Rollins kept fighting, though, taking Triple H to the limit time and again. Stephanie was forced to try to hold Rollins back at the ropes for her husband to attack again, but Rollins was able to duck out of the way, forcing The Game to hold up his charge so he wouldn’t knock his wife through a table that had been set up earlier with the intention of putting Seth through it.

Rollins was able to take advantage of that opening though, hitting Triple H as soon as he turned around — forcing him back into the ropes and into Stephanie, who finally did go crashing down through the table. Seeing his wife lying in the ruins of the table shocked Hunter, and Rollins took the opportunity to hit the Pedigree finisher that both men share, getting the massive WrestleMania win and finally getting revenge on the man who screwed him out of the Universal Championship almost a year ago.

The clash of the power couples was an impressive affair, with The Miz using great ring psychology to dominate the early running of the match against John Cena. After a sustained run of offense, though, The Miz perhaps started to get a bit too full of himself, taking time to mock SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan and getting caught by Cena in the process and dumped out of the ring.

That gave Cena the opening he needed to get to Nikki Bella, tagging her in and forcing Maryse into the match on the other side. She dominated Maryse with ease, setting up a double Five Knuckle Shuffle, with Cena hitting his trademark move on Miz at the same time before they hit their finishers in stereo, with both of them getting covers on their rivals to win the match with ease.

During the celebration, Cena grabbed a microphone, and, after extolling her virtues and how hard she fought to get another WrestleMania moment, got down on one knee with a small black box in hand. As many wrestling fans have suspected for weeks now, John Cena proposed to Nikki Bella.

Of course, she said yes.

Welcome home, Matt and Jeff Hardy! The Hardy Boyz made a shocking return to WWE at WrestleMania 33, after the New Day interrupted what was going to be a Tag Team Triple Threat ladder match and announcing that it was going to be a fatal four way. After teasing their own introduction to the match, the Hardy Boyz’ music hit, and the crowd exploded as soon as they saw Matt and Jeff hit the stage.

After that, their triumph was inevitable, though their opponents did their best to ruin the moment. The Club used all their trademark brutality, Enzo Amore and Big Cass showed their resilience, and Cesaro & Sheamus popped the crowd with their ever-improving teamwork, but in the end the sheer momentum and broken brilliance of the Hardyz was too much to take.

In the end, it was a Twist Of Fate from Matt on Karl Anderson from the top of one ladder, and Jeff hitting a Swanton Bomb on Cesaro and Sheamus through another ladder that secured the titles for the Hardy Boyz, with Matt climbing high to retrieve the titles to become seven-time tag team champions in WWE. It’s an exciting time for fans of the high-impact brothers, and seeing what comes next from them is going to be absolutely fascinating.

The four women on top of Raw’s women’s division put on a show in Orlando, with the champion Bayley in for a huge fight against three top competitors and Charlotte Flair doing everything she could to win back her title in the same stadium where her father was forced to retire from the WWE.

The early stages of the match were all about Nia Jax, with the powerful Samoan woman running roughshod over all three of her opponents. Her dominance forced all three of Charlotte, Bayley, and Sasha banks to work together to eliminate her, but that worked perfectly for Charlotte’s plans.

The cunning daughter of Ric Flair knocked Bayley out of the match temporarily before turning her attention to Sasha Banks, though her former rival actually got the upper hand briefly, managing to lock in her trademark Bank Statement submission for a short time. Charlotte used her athleticism to power out of it, and eliminated Sasha in short order before turning her attention to Bayley.

The former champion focused her efforts on the injured leg and appeared to have Bayley on the ropes, at one point having her tangled up hanging feet-first in the corner. But Bayley’s now-legendary perseverance came through again, finding just enough left in her to hit a huge, Macho Man-esque elbow and finish Charlotte off. It was an emphatic moment in the young champion’s career, and really cemented just how good she can be moving forward as a powerful Raw Women’s Champion.

Former allies, former best friends, and now bitter rivals, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho battled in a match that went from zero to full throttle in a big big hurry. Their anger and enmity was on full display as they pulled out all the stops trying to beat each other down.

The two know each other so well that they were countering almost every big move — Owens was flipping Jericho out of The Walls Of Jericho, Jericho got his knees up to stop a Swanton Bomb, Owens powered through Codebreakers, Jericho flipped out of Pop Up Powerbombs, and on and on it went. Jericho kept trying to work over Owens’ back when he could, but arguably the first moment of major damage being done was when Owens was able to sit down into The Walls Of Jericho himself, putting his massive frame right into the lower back of Jericho.

Owens tried to follow that up with a cannonball in the corner, but Jericho was able to grab him before the impact and put him in The Walls himself. He had Owens locked in for a long time before his former best friend got to the ropes, but couldn’t capitalize, with Owens catching him with a Pop Up Powerbomb. That wasn’t quite enough to beat the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla’, and despite getting some time to punish Jericho, his next try at a powerbomb was met with a huge Codebreaker.

Jericho thought he had gotten the win there, but Owens was just close enough to the ropes to get one finger on bottom rope to break up the pinfall. Owens went outside the ring to get an opening, kicking Jericho in the knee as he came out to meet him — then picked the U.S. champion up and powerbombed him into the apron before getting the final pinfall to beat Jericho and claim the United States Championship.

It was as intense a match as it had promised to be, and it positions Owens to get back to doing the things he does best: dominating matches and hurting whoever comes to claim his new title. This is already the third different major title he’s held on the main roster in just 18 months, making it clear that he is a major star in WWE.

This rivalry started when former WWE World Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles felt disrespected by Shane McMahon during his efforts to reclaim his title, and it got brutal in a hurry, with Styles putting Shane through a car window before McMahon challenged him to a match. It promised to be a violent match — and it delivered.

Kicking off the main WrestleMania show is always a challenge, but Styles and McMahon delivered in a big way. Styles brought the signature style he’s known for with an extra edge of anger added to it, fighting his way through every submission counter and flash moment Shane tried to bring to the table. He slipped away from a huge elbow drop onto the announce table at ringside, but couldn’t get away when Shane countered an attempt at Styles stealing the Coast To Coast leap into a propped-up trashcan by knocking Styles out of the air with the can.

Styles then ate all of an actual Coast To Coast, but when McMahon tried to finish him off with a Shooting Star Press, he slipped away again. Shane O’Mac tried to get up, but only did so to step into a Phenomenal Forearm — allowing AJ Styles to get the cover and the win. It was a major moment of satisfaction for Styles, and one that will be a huge drive for him in whatever is next for the proud former champion.

The Cruiserweight Championship was the first match on the card as Neville, the self-proclaimed King of the Cruiserweights, defended his title against commentator-turned-competitor Austin Aries in the WrestleMania 33 pre-show. The match got off to an explosive start as the athletic and dynamic Neville tried to out-trick the ever-crafty Aries, with Aries actually getting the better of many of the early exchanges.

Neville was able to escape the worst of Aries’ attacks, though, including slithering out of an early attempt at Aries’ Last Chancery submission maneuver, and he created a huge opening for himself when he countered an attempt at a Tope Suicida by simply jumping up to kick Aries in the face as he got to the ropes. He couldn’t take full advantage, though, and the match kept going back and forth for several more minutes, and a series of explosive German suplexes saw Neville take control of the match for a spell.

Aries fought his way back in, though, and a huge 450 splash lead to him locking in the Last Chancery — only for Neville to attack Aries’ left eye socket, which was broken in the ring several months ago, then bounced Aries’ face off the ropes before setting up him for a huge Red Arrow to make sure his title stayed right where it was. It was a vicious way to win, but it was exactly the kind of thing we’ve gotten used to seeing from Neville of late.

The ongoing battle between Big Show and Braun Strowman was the headline coming into this match, but both giants were eliminated shockingly early. Braun eliminated Big Show with frightening ease, but the entire field immediately turned their attention to Strowman and managed to haul the massive wrestler out of the ring.

After that, it was every man for himself. Sami Zayne and Luke Harper put in impressive showings, but the final three was a surprising trio: Mojo Rawley from SmackDown, Jinder Mahal from Raw, and Killian Dane representing SAnitY and NXT. Jinder threw Mojo out of the ring but between the ropes, and when he realized that the energetic star wasn’t eliminated yet, he followed him out and launched a vicious assault on Rawley in front of his best friend, New England Patriots star Rob Gronkowski. Gronk took offense to the beating, and after Mahal insulted him and threw a drink in his face, the NFL tight end decided to step into the ring himself. He cleaned Jinder out with a huge shoulder tackle, then got Mojo back into the ring and pumped him up.

Moments later, Rawley was throwing Dane out of the ring, and a brief battle on the apron between Jinder and Mojo ended with Mahal spilling out onto the floor in a daze, with Mojo and Gronkowski celebrating Rawley’s huge victory in the ring. It was a massive upset to see Mojo win the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and after an often difficult debut year on the main roster, it’s going to be interesting to see what comes next for the man who stays hyped.

This match had a strange buildup, but a brutal one. After weeks of Baron Corbin and Dean Ambrose attacking each other, including a parking-lot assault from Corbin that involved pinning Ambrose under a forklift, it finally came time for these two brutal men to face off inside the ring, and it did not disappoint.

This match got intense and hard-hitting in a hurry, with Corbin hurting Dean’s back with a shot to a ringpost early and taking full advantage in how he worked over the defending Intercontinental Champion. Ambrose was able to work his way into the match at times, but the sheer brutality of Corbin kept asserting itself with brutal counters, including just slapping Dean out of the air on a dive through the ropes.

In the end, though, Ambrose had just enough left in the tank after a brutal sequence from Corbin, flipping out of the End Of Days and countering with Dirty Deeds to retain his championship. It feels like this is just the beginning for a long and vicious rivalry between these two, though, so don’t expect them to stop clashing any time soon.