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The road to Wrestlemania has landed in Chicago. WWE‘s Elimination Chamber 2026 event is taking over the Windy City, home of wrestling star CM Punk, for the first time. If you can’t make it out the midwestern city, we’ve compiled a guide on how to watch the WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 online, including start time, streaming options, match card details and everything you need to know before the signature wrestling match.

How to Watch WWE Elimination Chamber 2026, At a Glance:

Similar to the Royal Rumble, the event features two signature Elimination Chamber matches for men and women wrestlers. For those who haven’t watched the event before, WWE stars enter in a chain-linked steel structure that surrounds the ring. Six competitors are in the match. Four are in pods, while the other two face-off in the ring to start. The wrestlers in pods enter the contest one at a time after a set timer. This is a last man standing format, so the only way to win is by pinning or submitting every competitor until one participant is left.

The men’s match sees Randy Orton vs. LA Knight vs. Cody Rhodes vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams vs. Jey Uso. The women’s match will see Tiffany Stratton vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Alexa Bliss vs. Asuka vs. Kiana James vs. Raquel Rodriguez.

Outside of the Elimination Chamber matches, Chicago’s own CM Punk will defends the World Heavyweight Championship against Finn Balor, while his wife, AJ Lee will compete in her first singles match since 2015, when she challenges superstar Becky Lynch for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship.

Will CM Punk’s homecoming be a celebration or a major upset? Who will make it out of the Elimination Chamber for their chance to go to Wrestlemania? Will Offset make a surprise cameo? Here’s every way to tune into the WWE event live online.

How to Watch WWE Elimination Chamber Online for Free

With the WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 airing live on ESPN, there’s plenty of great ways for non-cable users to stream the wrestling event online for free. Many streaming platforms including DirecTV, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV offer free trials to new subscribers, so you can sign up and watch Elimination Chamber without fully committing to a monthly paid subscription.

A subscription to DirecTV — which comes with ESPN for the WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 — gets you access to live TV, local and cable channels, starting at $59.99 for the first two months of service ($69.99 per month) for the “MySports” package. The service even offers a five-day free trial to watch for free if you sign up now.

You can watch local networks such as FOX and ABC, while you can watch many of the best sports networks, including ESPN, FOX Sports, NFL Network, NBA TV, NHL Network, Big Ten Network, TNT Sports, The Golf Channel and USA Network.

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Sling TV offers the Blue package, which goes for $54.99 per month and comes with NBC, USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW, Bravo and others. Blue is one of the most affordable options and comes with more than 40 channels and can be streamed on up to three device at a time. Please note: Pricing and channel availability varies from market-to-market.

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Hulu + Live TV doesn’t just let you watch everything within the Hulu library, it also gives you more than 95 live TV channels including NBC to watch sports at home.

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WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 is available to watch with Hulu + Live TV too. Prices for the cable alternative start at $89.99 per month, while each plan comes with Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited at no additional cost.

Hulu + Live TV might be best for those who want all of these streaming services together in one bundle. It features many other networks, including ABC, Hallmark Channel, BET, CMT, Disney Channel, NBC, and FOX Sports.

And, unlike the rest of the options, you can also expand your content library by bundling Hulu + Live TV with Disney+ and ESPN Unlimited. You’ll not only have all of the Hulu library to watch, but also exclusive and original programming available exclusively on ESPN Unlimited.

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ESPN Unlimited is the official streaming platform for ESPN, and a subscription includes instant access to games and more exclusive content for $29.99 per month. You can save almost 17% off by purchasing an annual subscription for $299.99 per year. There is no free ESPN Unlimited trial, but it does include exclusive on-demand videos and access to content from what was formerly known as ESPN Insider.

In addition to live sports, ESPN Unlimited has original shows to stream on-demand, plus game recaps and analysis, a shorter version of NFL Primetime and full replays of historic NFL matchups.

To expand your savings and content offerings, currently, you can bundle ESPN Unlimited with Hulu and Disney+ for a single monthly price of just $29.99 per month for all three services for 12 months of streaming.

WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Fight Card

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From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.

Bruno Mars Opens New Album With Stunning Mariachi Bolero

Bruno Mars returns with The Romantic, his first solo album in a decade, opening with the stunning bolero “Risk It All.” Backed by a mariachi ensemble — featuring trumpets, violins, guitarrón, and vihuela — the singer, dressed in a classic matador suit in the song’s music video, strums a nylon guitar in a scene straight out of a dream. Co-directed by Mars and Daniel Ramos, the musicians are seen in the video performing in front of a vintage Catholic church, golden hour lighting them like a painting, before transitioning into a wedding scene.

“I would run through the fire just to be by your side/ If your heart’s on the line you could take mine/ It’s crazy but it’s true/ There’s nothing I won’t do/ I’d risk it all for you,” Mars sings, embodying a lovelorn troubadour pouring his heart out. The video garnered excitement across the Latin community, with Rancho Humilde founder Jimmy Humilde commenting on Bruno Mars’ Instagram post sharing a snippet of the clip: “I love this. Thank you for embracing our roots. Glad to be part of it.” Fuerza Regida’s JOP added, “This is history. United States is full of cultures,” while Ivan Cornejo simply chimed in, “LFGGGGGG” (or “LET’S GO”). Watch the video below.

Xavi’s breakthrough “La Diabla” Joins Spotify’s Billions Club

Xavi’s “La Diabla” has officially entered Spotify’s prestigious Billions Club, surpassing one billion streams with a total of 1,002,857,857 plays and counting. Released in November 2023, the track quickly became a cultural phenomenon, propelling the Mexican American singer-songwriter to prominence by early 2024. It earned Xavi his first No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart — an impressive feat for a newcomer — and solidified his role as a standout voice in the regional Mexican music wave. This corridos tumbados kiss-off marked Xavi’s rise to global recognition, cementing his status as a rising household name. Watch the video below, and maybe soon, it’ll also join the Billion Views Club.

Trueno On Collaborating With Gorillaz on “The Manifesto”

Trueno teams up with Gorillaz on the collective’s new album The Mountain, delivering a fiery Spanish-language rap performance on “The Manifesto,” alongside the late Proof of D12. Buoyed by Indian-leaning instrumentation, and a haunting beat-switching production, the Argentine rapper explores themes of life, death and ambition in his freewheeling verse. The collaboration came after a 12-hour studio session with Damon Albarn, who later invited Trueno to open Gorillaz’ upcoming arena and stadium tour across England, Scotland, and Ireland, with stops in cities like Manchester, Glasgow, and Dublin.

“These are countries where I’ve never had [the opportunity to perform] in my life,” Trueno tells Billboard in a video interview. Gorillaz’s new album also features Bizarrap on the song “Orange County,” alongside Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar. Check out “The Manifesto” below.

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Pokémon Day 2026 is upon us, and it’s a special one.

This year’s celebration marks the franchise’s 30th anniversary, and plenty of Pokémon fans have been gearing up by watching out for the latest news on their favorite pocket monsters, along with stalking websites for deals on Pokémon product, of which there are many. One such deal that has gone viral is on a Pokémon Trading Card Game available at Walmart. The Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Elite Trainer Box is 11% off, just $133.95 now, and comes with everything aspiring trainers need to grow their card collection and battle against other trainers.

The box comes with nine Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes booster packs — that’s randomized card packs — along with one full-art foil promo card featuring N’s Zekrom
65 card sleeves, 40 Pokémon TCG Energy cards, a player’s guide to the Mega Evolution-Ascended Heroes expansion for new and returning players, six damage-counter dice and one competition-legal coin-flip die. With your purchase, you’ll also get a collector’s box to hold everything with six dividers to keep your box organized and a code card for Pokémon Trading Card Game Live which is  a free-to-play, digital, turn-based card game available on PC, Mac and mobile.

Pokémon’s battling system is pretty in-depth. The basics for new players are quite simple: Two players use a 60-card deck to knock out six of your opponent’s Pokémon to win, collecting a Prize card each time you defeat one. Players will take turns attaching Energy to Pokémon, evolving them to stronger forms and using Trainer cards to attack with the goal of taking all six Prize cards first. To set up a game, each player starts with seven cards and places six cards face-down as Prize cards. You place one Basic Pokémon in the “Active” spot and up to five on your “Bench” to call in later. Pokémon’s official website has an in-depth guide on how to play.

While a lot of people collect to play against others, many also collect to trade or sell cards at shows and conventions. In the sleeves or booster packs seen in this trading card game, you’ll get random cards that may include rare cards identified by specific symbols such as stars, gold stars or numbering higher than the set total. They might also have unique features such as holographic foils or special artwork.

Recently, Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary with the help of musicians such as Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK’s JISOO in a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. In the commercial, Gaga and JISOO shared their favorite Pokémon — Jigglypuff and Eevee, respectively.