All unlockable wrestlers in WWE 2K26 and how to get them

WWE 2K26 has a vast number of superstars available on the default roster, but you can unlock more by grinding different game modes.

This year, there are plenty of ways to get more superstars. Some of them are relatively easy and quick to unlock, while a few will require a long time to get.

This guide will provide you with all the information surrounding the locked characters and how you can unlock them.

How to unlock all superstars in WWE 2K26

The tables below have information about the locked superstars. I have separated the tables as per the unlock method.

AAA Pass

Superstar	How to Unlock
Alundra Blayze ’94	Season 1 Tier 5
Andre the Giant	Season 1 Tier 4
Ax	AAA Pass
Booker T	Season 1 Tier 11
Bray Wyatt	Season 1 Tier 18
Bret Hart	Season 1 Tier 7
British Bulldog	Season 1 Tier 15
Chyna	Season 1 Tier 5
Crush	AAA Pass
DDP ’98	Season 1 Tier 29
Diesel	Season 1 Tier 22
Dude Love	Season 1 Tier 27
Dusty Rhodes	Season 1 Tier 21
Eddie Guerrero ’97	Season 1 tier 2
El Hijo Del Vikingo	Season 1 Tier 1*
Elite Jacob Fatu (Persona)	Season Tier 26*
Faarooq	Season 1 Tier 26
The Field Bray Wyatt ’23	Season 1 Tier 40
Lady Flammer	Season 1 Tier 7*
The Great Muta	Season 1 Tier 29
Hollywood Hogan	Season 1 Tier 39
The Honky Tonk Man	Season 1 Tier 8
Huilk Hogan ’02	Season 1 Tier 33
The Hurrican	Season 1 Tier 23
The Iron Sheik	Season 1 Tier 19
Jelly Roll	AAA Pass
Jim Neidhart	Season 1 Tier 7
Kane ’08	Season 1 Tier 20
Kevin Nash	Season 1 Tier 28
Kurt Angle	Season 1 Tier 13
Lex Luger	Season 1 Tier 29
Randy Savage	Season 1 Tier 25
Mankind	Season 1 Tier 27
Mizz Elizabeth Manager	Season 1 Tier 25
Mosh	Season 1 Tier 9
Mr. Iguana	Season 1 Tier 20*
Mr. Perfect	Season 1 Tier 19
Pagano	AAA Pass
Paul Bearer (Manager)	Season 1 Tier 26
Psycho Clown	Season 1 Tier 13
Rick Rude	Season 1 Tier 8
Razor Ramon	Season 1 Tier 22
The Rock ’01	Season 1 Tier 36
Roddy Piper	Season 1 Tier 19
Scott Hall	Season 1 Tier 28
Sensational SHerri	Season 1 Tier 30
Shawn Michaels	Season 1
Shawn Michaels ’05	Season 1 Tier 35
Shawn Michaels ’94	Season 1 Tier 30
Smash	AAA Pass
Stephanie McMahon	Season 1 Tier 34
Stephanie Vaquer (Persona)	Season 1 Tier 33*
Billy Graham	Season 1 Tier 31
Syxx	Season 1 Tier 28
Terry Funk	Season 1 Tier 20
Thrasher	Season 1 Tier 9
Triple H’ 08	Season 1 Tier 34
Tyler Breeze	Season 1 Tier 1
Ultimate Warrior	Season 1 Tier 8
Undertaker ’03	Season 1 Toer 14
Undertaker ’98	Season 1 Tier 26
Vader	Season 1 Tier 23

All superstars with an asterisk by their AAA pass tier require the premium version.

Showcase Mode

Superstar	How to Unlock
AJ Lee	Match 21
AJ Lee ’15	Match 21
AJ Stles ’16	Match 18
Batista	Match 16
Brock Lesnar ’13	Match 7
Cactus Jack	Match 12
CM Hart	Match 11
CM Punk ’11	Match 3
CM Punk ’13	Match 5
CM Punk Armageddon ’08	Match 2
CM Punk Elimination Chamber ’13	Match 6
CM Punk SummerSlam ’08	Match 1
CM Punk SummerSlam ’13	Match 7
CM Punk WrestleMania 29	Match 4
Drew McIntyre	Match 8
Eddie Guerrero	Match 14
The Fiend Bray Wyatt	Match 20
JBL	Match 1
John Cena ’13	Match 5
John Cena ’15	Match 17
Kurt Angle ’19	Match 19
Maryse	Match 21
The Miz ’17	Match 21
Randy orton ’11	Match 3
Randy Orton ’14	Match 16
Rey Mysterio ’08	Match 2
The Rock ’13	Match 6
Seth Rollins ’25	Match 9
Seth Rollins WrestleMania 41	Match 10
Shawn Michaels ’97	Match 11
Stephanie McMahon ’14 (Manager)	Match 15
Steve Austin	Match 13
Triple H’ 14	Match 15
Undetaker ’13	Match 4

Next, we look at all the superstars that are part of the MyRISE mode.

MyRISE

• Alundra Blayze
• Bron Breakker
• Buzz
• The Captain
• Carly Prime
• Chase
• Chosen
• CM Punk Retro
• Cole Quinn
• DDP
• Dusty Rhodes ’89
• El Mago Jr.
• El Ordinario
• The Fiend Bray Wyatt (Burned)
• Gabriel Slade
• Geneva Rose
• Hector Flores
• Josie Jane
• Juggernaut Grace
• Justine
• Justine ’99
• La Cangrejita Loca
• LJ
• The Lock
• Main Event R-Truth
• Meilee Fan
• Michelle McCool
• Moreno
• MyRISE 2K22 Female Player
• MyRISE 2K22 Male Player
• Odyssey Rift
• Paragon Jay Pierce
• Psycho Sally
• Red
• Rikishi
• Road Dogg
• Scott Steiner ’03
• Slade
• Tavish
• Tre

Next, here’s the list of superstars you’ll unlock from the MyFACTION and The Island game modes.

MyFACTION and The Island

• Bobby Newton
• Brock Lesnar ’01 (Live Events)
• Dahlia Hex
• Delilah Hex
• Drew McIntyre ’10 (Live Events)
• Elite Jade Cargill (World Tour)
• Elite Jey Uso (Live Events)
• Elite The Rock (World Tour)
• Marshall Thompson
• Odette Beaumont
• Rob Van Dam ’97 (World Tour)
• Triple H ’99 (MyCollection)

DLC

Here’s a list of all the superstars that are part of upcoming DLCs.

Superstar	DLC
Chyna ’97	Attitude Era Pack
Joe Hendry	Joe Hendry Pack
Kane ’98	Attitude Era Edition Pack
Randy Savage ’98	Monday Night War Edition Pack
The Rock ’99	Attitude Era Edition Pack
Roddy Piper ’98	Monday Night War Edition Pack
Shawn Michaels DX	Monday Night War Edition Pack
Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley	King of Kings Edition Pack
Triple H ’98	King of Kings Edition Pack

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Marathon is finally out. The game, which saw huge activity during its free-to-play server slam, replicated its previous success by opening to over 86,000 players, this time at a $40 price tag. Of course, this is being described as a “flop” by some, because we simply cannot have nice things in 2026.

Negative narratives around basically anything nowadays tend to form rather quickly, often propagated by people (and of course bots) who never actually experienced the thing they’re hating. It seems that nowadays, following the “Fall of Concord” back in 2024, games have to blow it out of the park every single time lest they be considered complete failures.

Highguard was a recent example, and even if that game doesn’t really scream quality at the top of its lungs, it certainly didn’t deserve the hate train coming its way, boarded almost exclusively by those without any hours clocked in the title.

And now Marathon is on the chopping block.

During its development, Marathon was marred by problems and hitches. It had several directors swapped out, had a few playtests that weren’t so well-received by those who participated in them, and so on. It crossed out every prerequisite for “development hell,” indicating the actual release would be a terrible experience for Bungie and perhaps the final nail in its coffin.

But that turned out not to be true, even during the server slam. It had over 130,000 concurrent players at that point and has over 86,000 now that the game costs $40 U.S. dollars. Nothing about Marathon tells us that it’s a flop or a failure or even underperforming for that matter.

And those are just the Steam numbers, which I imagine represent about half of its total player base, if not less.

The hate train keeps chugging along, however, no matter what.

While browsing X, I spotted one user arguing that, since Marathon is performing worse than Destiny and the recently released Slay the Spire 2 (which costs about 50 percent less than Marathon), it must be considered a “complete flop of a game” and, of course, as “Concord 3.0″ (the other one being Highguard).

“Marathon is dead on arrival,” another user wrote. Dexerto, a video game outlet, also compared Slay the Spire 2‘s performance to Marathon, saying the former “beats out” Bungie’s shooter, as if the two were ever comparable, both in price and genre.

The narrative is forming and slowly being propagated by so many people and even news outlets, who use superficial arguments to frame a game as a failure despite the fact that it had probably earned over three and a half million USD if we go by Steam’s concurrent numbers alone, which are in fact much larger, especially when consoles are taken into account.

And what’s worse, it’s people who either didn’t play the game or haven’t even seen what it has to offer. Those who did say it’s a good title, with it having 81 percent positive reviews on Steam at the time of writing, which improved as the launch day progressed, and are set to grow as time goes by.

Compare that to Highguard‘s 45 percent and its myriad of regions that have it at mostly negative or even worse. Highguard was also a free game that ended up flopping, whereas Marathon is already raking in a lot of cash that should see it sustained for the foreseeable future.

Online arguments and narratives have become so toxic and tiresome, to the point where I’m almost willing to give up on trying to reason with people and to pragmatically view every single game on a case-by-case basis. Why do we have to go out of our way to frame things negatively before they’re even out or without trying them for ourselves, at least for a little while?

I have every hope that Marathon will succeed and grow into a great game, because as I noted in one of my recent features, its art direction deserves all the praise it can get, as that’d prove to developers that giving a damn about looks (not just in terms of graphics) is crucial for a successful title.

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