There are 11 confirmed matches on the card for WrestleMania38, with more to be added in the coming days.
Six of those 11 matches will be championship bouts. It's presumably only a matter of time until WWE also announces United States and Intercontinental Championship bouts for next weekend's two-day event, which will run at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer wrote that a United States Championship match between Finn Balor and Damian Priest "was scheduled" for WrestleMania weekend. Though nothing has been officially announced by WWE, Meltzer noted that Priest's victory over Balor on the Mar. 14 episode of Raw (thanks to a distraction from Austin Theory) suggests that the two will square off at WrestleMania.
Balor handed Priest an extremely rare clean loss on the Feb. 28 episode of Raw to become the new United States Champion. A frustrated Priest attacked Balor after the match, turning heel for the first time since joining the main WWE roster in early 2021.
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Priest's United States Championship reign, which started at SummerSlam 2021 following his victory over Sheamus, lasted 191 days. This was the longest run with the title since Dean Ambrose (now Jon Moxley in AEW) held it for 350 days from May 19, 2013 to May 5, 2014.
Balor vs. Priest Should Be Announced Soon
As previously noted, both days of WrestleMania 38 are listed for five-hour slots on Peacock. Including pre-shows, that gives WWE six hours (they'll likely run a little longer) of matches for the main WrestleMania card. So there's plenty of room for WWE to add several more matches to the card. It'd be a major surprise if WWE didn't end up adding Balor vs. Priest to the card at this point. They've been building up a WrestleMania match for a month now, and it only makes sense to put these two elite in-ring workers against one another in a title match.
