{"id":25538,"date":"2025-08-16T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-stream-wrestlemania\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:26:06","slug":"espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-stream-wrestlemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wwe\/espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-stream-wrestlemania\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN and WWE: Historic agreement to stream WrestleMania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WWE Arrives at ESPN: A New Home for WrestleMania and More<\/h2>\n\nA historic agreement between World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ESPN will mark the beginning of a new era for wrestling fans. Starting in 2026, the most important WWE events, including WrestleMania, will be broadcast exclusively through ESPN&#8217;s direct-to-consumer streaming platform.\n\nThe agreement, announced this Wednesday, covers two-night events such as WrestleMania and SummerSlam, as well as other premium live WWE events such as Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank. WWE will be in charge of producing the events for ESPN platforms, which will become the exclusive home for these events in the United States.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>WWE has an immense, devoted, and passionate fanbase that we are excited to serve on our new ESPN DTC platform. This agreement, which features the most significant WWE events of the year, reinforces our unprecedented content portfolio and drives our streaming future.<\/p><cite>Jimmy Pitaro, President of ESPN<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<!--  -->\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe agreement also includes the broadcast of pre- and post-event programs for WWE premium live events.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are proud to reinforce the &#8216;E&#8217; in ESPN at such an exciting juncture in its direct-to-consumer journey. WWE&#8217;s premium live events are recognized for exactly the kind of rich storytelling, incredible feats of athleticism, and must-see cultural experiences that have become synonymous with ESPN. Through our relationship with UFC, we have experienced firsthand how transformational a presence on ESPN can be, and we know that this will be an exceptional partnership at a time of great innovation for both companies.<\/p><cite>Mark Shapiro, President and COO of TKO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nESPN&#8217;s streaming service will launch on August 21st with a price of $29.99 per month and will keep the name of the linear channel: ESPN.\n\nThe direct-to-consumer service will allow users to get the seven national ESPN linear channels, plus ESPN on ABC and several other streaming options.\n\nWWE events were previously broadcast on Peacock in 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Arrives at ESPN: A New Home for WrestleMania and More A historic agreement between World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ESPN will mark the beginning of a new era for wrestling fans. Starting in 2026, the most important WWE events, including WrestleMania, will be broadcast exclusively through ESPN&#8217;s direct-to-consumer streaming platform. The agreement, announced this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[376,2069,674,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-25538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwe","7":"tag-espn","8":"tag-streaming","9":"tag-wrestlemania","10":"tag-wwe"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}