For the first time in his career, Trick Williams will walk the aisle of WWE’s biggest yearly event, WrestleMania. With that in mind, Williams plans to make his grand stage debut, and corresponding entrance, one to remember.

“If you know anything about Trick Williams, you know I show up and I show out with my entrances,” Williams told “Mornings With Mero” when asked about what fans can expect to see in his WrestleMania arrival. “Uh oh, we got that family ties. You know what I mean? And while we got that family ties going, I might just bring out the stars. I might go all the way to the Milky Way galaxy and bring some stars down. We got this entrance right here, man. We about to turn it up. We gonna turn it up.”

As of now, the finer details of Williams’ WrestleMania 42 entrance remain unknown, though based on last week’s edition of “WWE SmackDown,” fans will likely see involvement from rapper Lil Yachty. According to Williams, he and Yachty “go way back like white walls on a Cadillac,” which is why he wanted to personally invite the music star to join him at WrestleMania. This year, Williams will challenge Sami Zayn for the WWE United States Championship at “The Show of Shows,” with an all-white mink coat being teased as his possible attire for the occasion.

Williams received his official call-up to WWE’s main roster at the turn of the new year, the same time in which he and Zayn initially crossed paths. Now, the two will mark their first televised singles affair by battling over the U.S. Title on night two of WrestleMania.

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While the build to WrestleMania 42 hasn’t been the strongest for many matches, one of those that has not suffered from lack of intrigue is Oba Femi’s night two matchup against Brock Lesnar. On the other side of the coin, however, is the recently booked match pitting Seth Rollins against GUNTHER, the latter of whom almost missed the event. On an episode of “Busted Open Radio,” Bully Ray explained that WWE can use Femi and Lesnar’s match to build to something more.

“I do not hate the idea of Oba going over on Brock,” he explained. “GUNTHER’s music [hits], and GUNTHER’s just standing there laughing at Brock. Just laughing at him. ‘Look at you. You’re not the ‘Beast’ anymore. You’re a shell of yourself, old man.’ Anything to plant the seed.”

Bully Ray said he feels like Lesnar’s retirement is close, as he went on record recently to say his accolades and titles never meant anything to him, and his children are his legacy. Bully Ray previously said that GUNTHER and Lesnar should face off in a career-threatening match at SummerSlam, as the two-night event is in Lesnar’s adopted home state of Minnesota. The WWE Hall of Famer said there are only two ways to do the WrestleMania match between Femi and “The Beast Incarnate,” however.

“There’s the 90-second special and then there’s the eight minute, hit you with every bomb in the book, kickout, kickout, kickout, until something works,” he said. “I don’t think the 90 second special is good for Oba because people will say to themselves, ‘They needed to protect Oba by giving him the short match…’ You have to put Oba in a war with Brock.”

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Patience was the theme of this year’s Stand & Deliver, particularly in terms of the two new champions crowned on the show. It’s especially clear in the case of Tony D’Angelo, who has been on the developmental brand since the days of “NXT 2.0” and who, after years of watching his peers get called up to the main roster, finally captured the NXT Championship on Saturday. We’re talking almost five full years of waiting for D’Angelo; the man competed at NXT WarGames 2021 alongside Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes. For him to finally capture the gold at Stand & Deliver (against three men who were newer to the promotion than he was, but who had all managed a run with the top title before D’Angelo) was a massive win for the concept of waiting for your turn.

Similarly, Lola Vice has been part of “NXT” since 2022 and has been positioned as a women’s title contender since 2024. She’s had numerous shots at the belt, but could never seem to capture it. In fact, she’s been in contention long enough for a younger phenomenon to emerge in Kendal Grey, who could easily have been the one to end Jacy Jayne’s reign. Instead, it’s finally Vice’s time. On a night she could have been skipped over by a rising talent from the next generation of “NXT” stars, she instead made good on her years of waiting and is finally on top of the deepest division in wrestling.

Saturday night, the primary sentiment I heard from fans about Stand & Deliver was “good for Lola and good for Tony.” It’s a sentiment I share. Their patience paid off.