WWE Main Event Leaves YouTube for Rumble in October
WWE's Main Event is on the move again. The weekly wrestling series will leave YouTube for video platform Rumble next month, as first reported exclusively by Variety.
The switch takes effect on 14 October. From then on, new episodes will air every Wednesday at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. Those are US Eastern and Pacific times, so the slot holds in the evening in the United States.
Viewers will find the show at Rumble.com/WWE. That is a dedicated WWE page inside Rumble. Episodes will also stream through Rumble's connected mobile and TV apps. They will sit as part of the Rumble Sport lineup, which groups the platform's sports programming in one place.
Main Event draws wrestlers from Raw, SmackDown and NXT. Those are WWE's three main rosters. Each has its own weekly show and its own squad of stars. Main Event works as a crossover showcase, bringing names from all three together in one hour.
The Rumble deal ends a brief YouTube era. Main Event has aired on YouTube since the start of 2026. WWE's own listings still place the show on YouTube on Thursdays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, according to WWE. That Thursday berth is the current position before the October change.
For fans, this means a new address and a new night. Wednesday, not Thursday. Rumble, not YouTube. The start time stays the same. No extra search is needed beyond the new WWE page and the Rumble apps most viewers already use for video.
It is the latest change in a well-travelled history. Main Event launched on Ion Television, a US broadcast channel, in 2012. That makes it more than a decade old and one of WWE's longest-running weekly series.
Since that launch it has changed homes several times. It has aired on Hulu, the subscription streaming service. It has aired on WWE Network, WWE's own former streaming home. It later aired on Peacock before its move to YouTube at the start of this year. Each step shifted it from traditional television to streaming and then from one streaming outlet to another.
Rumble becomes the next stop in that line. New episodes arrive there from mid-October. The weekly rhythm continues, just in a different place.
