The hype around the WWE MSG show has been building for the past few days. WWE is returning to the Madison Square Garden in New York City later tonight for a special Road to WrestleMania 38 live event. The event will be highlighted with Brock Lesnar working in a house show after a hiatus of almost a couple of years. Also, WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns will be defending his title on the card.
The latest updates from WWE MSG suggest that doors will open for the show at 6 PM ET and the show begins at 7:30 PM ET. Tickets are still available via Ticketmaster as WWE has been unable to sell out the arena despite all their efforts.
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As of Wednesday, @WrestleTix reported that there were 2,960 available tickets for the March 5 WWE MSG live event which should amp things up for the Wrestlemania 38 season. 6,835 tickets have been distributed so far with the venue having a setup/capacity of 9,795.
As for the headlining matches, there’s is still no word on who will challenge WWE Champion Brock Lesnar and WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns in their respective title match defenses. Meanwhile, Wrestling Observer Newsletter has reported that WWE has planned to professionally film the WWE Title match, so that there could be storyline-related content, coming out of WWE MSG.
Heading into the show, the Special Counsel for Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman has promised that Lesnar will not leave the WWE MSG show with the WWE Title. At one point, Lesnar was advertised to face Bobby Lashley but the challenger isn’t medically cleared to compete in the match. Reigns was advertised to face Seth Rollins, but the match was pulled from the listing in the last week or so.
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For now, the card for the March 5 WWE MSG event stands as follows,
* WWE Champion Brock Lesnar will defend his title
* WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns will defend his title
* WWE United States Champion Finn Balor defends against Damian Priest
* SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos defend against Kofi Kingston and Big E
* RAW Tag Team Champions Alpha Academy will defend against RK-Bro
* RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch defends against Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley
* Ronda Rousey and Naomi vs. Sonya Deville and SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
* Appearances by Seth Rollins, AJ Styles, Drew McIntyre, Sasha Banks, and others
