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WrestleMania 39 guide for lapsed WWE fans: Everything you need to know for WrestleMania Goes Hollywood

Been away from WWE for a while? We get you ready for WrestleMania 39 in Los Angeles in just a few minutes.

If you don’t watch WWE regularly but are going to check out one event a year, WrestleMania is it. Not only is it the culmination of everything the company does for one whole trip around the sun, it’s also a spectacle the likes of which no other pro wrestling event can match.

We’re talking sold out crowds in huge stadiums, which is the case again this year. WrestleMania 39, also known as WrestleMania Goes Hollywood, will take place April 1-2 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. It will once again be a huge deal, likely setting multiple WWE records for revenue and ticket sales, though probably not attendance.

There’s always the chance for extra attention for the wider world of entertainment at WrestleMania as well, though the talent involved in this year’s show is almost all from the roster of men and women who perform on WWE TV every week. One notable exception comes to mind, and we’ll get to him in a bit.

So if you haven’t watched WWE in a while, or even years, no worries. We’re going to get you up to speed with a quick summary of everything you need to know to watch on Peacock (or WWE Network if you’re outside the U.S.) without feeling lost.

Scroll on down and we’ll do this FAQ style.

WWE Survivor Series WarGames preview: When and where it’s going down, what to expect

Get ready for WWE Survivor Series WarGames with our full preview, including the start time, card and predictions for every match.

Let’s face it: For one of the traditional big WWE events, Survivor Series needed a refresh. Triple H and company have given it exactly that by folding in a fan favorite match from NXT — but whose roots go back much further to when it was originally invented by Dusty Rhodes during his Jim Crockett Promotions days — to create the first ever Survivor Series WarGames.

For those who have never seen the namesake match, it involves two teams doing battle within a steel cage large enough to contain two wrestling rings side by side. While one competitor from each team starts out the match, another enters every few minutes. That means the team that sends someone in first will always have an edge for a bit (two-on-one, three-on-two, etc.), which is why that advantage is valuable enough to compete for in matches leading up to the event.

The match doesn’t even officially get underway until everyone on both teams has entered, so the goal is to simply do as much damage as possible before that. To that end, all weapons are legal, and the only way to win this WWE version of WarGames is by pinfall or submission.

It’s a logical fit for Survivor Series, which has long been the domain of team vs. team matches, though traditionally they have been elimination affairs. Still, if there was any gimmick match that contained some of the event’s historical DNA, this is it.

Along with both men’s and women’s WarGames matches, there have been a handful of other matches announced, including two title bouts. While more could still be added, the WarGames matches figure to both go pretty long, so don’t expect this to end up with a dozen matches on the card when it’s all said and done.

WWE Survivor Series WarGames

When: Saturday, November 26
Where: TD Garden, Boston
Start time: 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT
How to watch: On Peacock in the U.S., or on WWE Network internationally
Matches announced: 5

Keep scrolling for our complete WWE Survivor Series WarGames preview, including the stories behind every match and what to expect.

No worries fans, WWE is making sure all your ‘Ucey’ merch is official

Rest assured that any “Feeling Ucey?” lingerie you come across won’t be bootleg.

The Bloodline saga continues to stay hot in WWE, particularly in segments where Sami Zayn gets to interact with the entire group. Incredibly, Zayn managed to kick their crowd response up another notch in recent weeks by telling Roman Reigns that the problem with Jey Uso was that Jey wasn’t “feeling very Ucey,” one of those lines that had Reigns laughing in a way that you weren’t sure was because it was in-character or due to it just being extremely funny.

Regardless, if you don’t think WWE knows to swoop down and capitalize on the Ucey phenomenon with its full merchandising muscle, think again. Fightful reports that WWE has filed for trademarks for both “Ucey” and “Feeling Ucey,” which cover a variety of uses but focus primarily on “the categories of clothing, namely, tops, shirts, jackets, sweatshirts, hoodies; outerwear, namely, coats; bottoms, pants, shorts, underwear, dresses, pajamas, lingerie, clothing ties, scarves, gloves, swimwear; Halloween and masquerade costumes; footwear, namely, shoes, sneakers, slippers, flip flops, boots; headwear, namely, hats, caps; wrist bands; bandanas; championship trophy belts.”

(“Feeling Ucey” lingerie is strangely intriguing for some reason.)

WWE already has one t-shirt in its online store that uses the newly chantable term: a “Feeling Ucey?” t-shirt that also has the Bloodline’s one-finger hand sign on the back and is categorized under Jey Uso.

That shirt might not ship until Dec. 2, according to WWE Shop, so there’s some pressure on Zayn and company to keep the phrase hot for another month. We’re betting they will, and that these trademarks mean WWE is more than willing to open the floodgates for Ucey merch of all kinds during the holiday season.

Smart move, that.