{"id":36402,"date":"2025-09-20T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-broadcast-wrestlemania-8\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:27:57","slug":"espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-broadcast-wrestlemania-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wwe\/espn-and-wwe-historic-agreement-to-broadcast-wrestlemania-8\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN and WWE: Historic agreement to broadcast WrestleMania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WrestleMania Comes to ESPN&#8217;s Streaming Platform in 2026<\/h2>\n\nA strategic agreement between World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ESPN will mark a milestone in the broadcast of wrestling events. Starting in 2026, WrestleMania and other premium WWE events will be part of ESPN&#8217;s new direct-to-consumer streaming platform.\n\nThis recently announced agreement covers two-night events like WrestleMania and SummerSlam. In addition, it includes other featured events such as Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and Money in the Bank. WWE will handle the production of these events for ESPN platforms, which will become their exclusive home 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 WWE&#8217;s most important events of the year, reinforces our unprecedented content portfolio and drives our streaming future.<\/p><cite>Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN President<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"false\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: ESPN and WWE reach a landmark 10-year agreement for the exclusive U.S. rights to WWE\u2019s premium live events, including WrestleMania, SummerSlam and Royal Rumble, beginning in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6D1jGg6J7C\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6D1jGg6J7C<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNPR\/status\/1791145457271346807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe agreement also includes the transmission of pre- and post-event programs of WWE on ESPN&#8217;s streaming platform.\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 transformative 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 will launch its streaming service on August 21st with a price of $29.99 per month and will keep the name of the linear network: ESPN. The direct-to-consumer service will allow users to access the seven national ESPN linear networks, in addition to ESPN on ABC and several other streaming options.\n\nWWE events were previously streamed on Peacock in 2025.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WrestleMania Comes to ESPN&#8217;s Streaming Platform in 2026 A strategic agreement between World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ESPN will mark a milestone in the broadcast of wrestling events. Starting in 2026, WrestleMania and other premium WWE events will be part of ESPN&#8217;s new direct-to-consumer streaming platform. This recently announced agreement covers two-night events like WrestleMania [&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-36402","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\/36402","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=36402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}