Get Ready, Nashville: WrestleMania Appears To Be Coming
Construction on a new football stadium in Nashville for the Tennessee Titans has been underway since early-2024. As the new stadium nears completion, the city will help christen it with one of the biggest events on the global sports calendar: WrestleMania.
According to Fightful, WWE is in active negotiations with the city of Nashville to host WrestleMania 44 in 2028. WrestleMania 43 is currently slated to be held in Riyadh next year after previously being slated for Nashville.
The new Nashville stadium, currently with the placeholder name "New Nissan Stadium," is expected to open in 2027. The hope is that it will be open and ready to go for the 2027 NFL season.
Tennessee as a state has a long and storied history of pro wrestling, with major promotions such as the Continental Wrestling Association, Smokey Mountain Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling all setting up shop in Memphis, Knoxville and Nashville respectively.
It would only be fitting that the former hotbed of wrestling talent development would finally get a chance to host The Grandaddy of Them All.
Questions Emerge
As exciting as the event might be, fans are reluctant to take WWE at its word that WrestleMania really will be coming to Nashville given how the company has changed its mind about its signature event several times over the past few years.
The aforementioned Nashville-to-Riyadh move still has some fans feeling sour, while others pointed to WWE having WrestleMania in Las Vegas in back-to-back years as a sign that they'll jump to whoever offers the most money at a moment's notice.
"Sounds cool until you remember Vegas will just throw a bag at them after the announcement again," one user remarked.
"Even if they make a deal, don't get your hopes up just yet," another warned.
"Can't wait for them to pull this one and go to Vegas part 3," a third wrote.
WWE has broken the trust of fans too many times through the years for this announcement to be received with anything other than skepticism. It's not unfair for fans to feel like they have to see it to believe it first.
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This story was originally published April 30, 2026 at 1:39 PM.