WWE SmackDown spoilers for Friday, December 26 episode —
A Joe Hendry concert segment
Christmas Street Fight: Joe Hendry defeated The Miz
Backstage segment with United States Champion Ilja Dragunov and Carmelo Hayes
Backstage segment with Drew McIntyre
Backstage segment with Jade Cargill
Backstage segment with Michin
Charlotte Flair defeated Lash Legend
Backstage segment with Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, SmackDown GM Nick Aldis, and Trick Williams
United States Championship: Carmelo Hayes defeated Ilja Dragunov to win the title
Backstage segment with the women’s tag team division (Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, Lash Legend and Nia Jax, Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY, Asuka and Kairi Sane)
Giulia and Kiana James defeated Chelsea Green and Alba Fyre
Drew McIntyre attacked Cody Rhodes, a Three Stages of Hell WWE title match between the two is set for the January 9 SmackDown
Announced for the Friday, January 9 WWE SmackDown episode —
Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes defends against Drew McIntyre in a Three Stages of Hell match (Best two-out-of-three falls, three stipulation matches)
The Last Time is Now tournament quarterfinals: Jey Uso defeated Rusev
Backstage segment with The Miz and R-Truth where they argued over who would replace the injured Sheamus in The Last Time is Now match against LA Knight.
Chelsea Green’s title celebration ended with Jade Cargill laying Green out.
Backstage segment with the babyface women’s WarGames team
The Last Time is Now tournament quarterfinals: LA Knight defeated The Miz
Backstage segment with the heel women’s WarGames team
Women’s WarGames advantage match: Charlotte Flair defeated Asuka
Five-on-five Survivor Series elimination match: Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, Talla Tonga, and JC Mateo defeated Sami Zayn, Shinsuke Nakamura, Rey Fenix, Chris Sabin, and Alex Shelley — Sikoa was the sole survivor
Following WWE Raw on Monday, WWE taped footage for this SmackDown that will air on July 4. This week’s Raw aired two hours earlier on Netflix to accomadate the tapings, which will mark the return of the show’s two-hour format. Spoilers courtesy of WrestleZone:
Cody Rhodes came out to start the show when he was interrupted by Randy Orton, who admitted was hesitant in completing the punt kick on Rhodes at Night of Champions. Rhodes promised to take out John Cena Cena at SummerSlam. A returning Drew McIntyre then interrupted Orton and Cody and attempted to turn them against one another. He was then laid out by Orton to end the segment.
A backstage segment saw Nick Aldis convince Charlotte Flair to team up with Alexa Bliss against the Secret Hervice for a spot in the four-way Women’s Tag Team title match at Evolution. He also set up a tag match later in the tapings pitting Jacob Fatu and Jimmy Uso against two members of Solo Sikoa’s group.
In another backstage segment, a match between Drew McIntyre and Randy Orton was made official for Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Flair & Bliss defeated Secret Hervice to qualify for the four-way Women’s Tag Team title match at Evolution.
Aldis was backstage with the SmackDown tag team division. One member of each of the four teams teamed up to take on the Wyatt Sicks.
Wyatt Sicks defeated Johnny Gargano, Berto, Montez Ford, and Chris Sabin.
Tiffany Stratton came out to talk about her match with Jade Cargill at SummerSlam. However, she said she wanted to defend the WWE Women’s title at Evolution. Jade interrupted, but Stratton revealed she wanted to defend the title against Trish Stratus, who came out and exchanged words with Stratton, setting up the match.
Andrade and Rey Fenix defeated Fraxiom
Backstage, Damien Priest attempted to explain R-Truth’s actions to Aleister Black, leading to a match between Black and Truth for next week. Tension continued to build between Black and Priest.
Jacob Fatu and Jimmy Uso defeated Solo Sikoa and JC Mateo.
The following are live spoilers for Friday’s WWE SmackDown, airing live from London, England at 4 PM Eastern throughout the world on Netflix but at 8 PM Eastern in the U.S. per usual on USA.
We will have our usual live coverage of the show, also at 8 PM Eastern.
The show will feature a WrestleMania 41 contract signing between Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and CM Punk; LA Knight defending the WWE United States title against Braun Strowman; and the Street Profits defending the WWE Tag Team titles against Pretty Deadly.
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Shots of Seth Rollins, CM Punk, Charlotte Flair, LA Knight, among others, arriving at the arena opened the show.
Cody Rhodes opened the in-ring portion of the night with a promo to a great ovation from the London crowd. Randy Orton showed up to interrupt Rhodes’s promo. Orton put over Rhodes for being courageous and that he respected him. He then said that once WrestleMania season is done, he was calling his shot for Rhodes’ Undisputed WWE Title. Drew McIntyre then interrupted. McIntyre blasted Orton for being undeserving of the title and also called his shot for the title. Rhodes cut off McIntyre’s tirade with a punch as Orton attempted an RKO. McIntyre escaped calamity.
Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre was announced for later in the evening.
Street Profits vs. Pretty Deadly for the WWE Tag Titles was up next. The challengers were decked out in Union Jack-themed attire for the home country pop. Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford retained the titles with a clean win.
Kayden Carter & Katana Chance vs. The Secret Her-vice was set up with a segment from earlier in the day. Piper Niven got the pin for her team after a Chelsea Green distraction and the Piper Driver. Post-match, the Secret Her-vice attacked Carter and Chance, but Zelina Vega ran down for the save. Green’s group got the upper hand with the numbers game.
LA Knight vs. Braun Strowman for the United States Championship ended in a disqualification after Jacob Fatu attacked Strowman at ringside. Fatu continued the assault in the ring until Knight got involved. Fatu dropped both Strowman and Knight in the ensuing melee.
Jimmy Uso was interviewed backstage about his slapping of Gunther from Raw this past Monday. The Miz and Carmelo Hayes interrupted with some harsh words for Jimmy. A challenge for Jimmy vs. Miz was made for later tonight.
Jacob Fatu was confronted by Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga. Sikoa was upset with Fatu for taking matters into his own hands. Fatu said that he was going to be the last man standing between him and Braun Strowman and he’d win the U.S. title with or without Sikoa’s help.
A video of Naomi explaining her recent actions against Jade Cargill was shown. After that video, Cargill was shown talking to Nick Aldis asking for Naomi’s whereabouts. She was met with B-Fab and Michin, who encouraged Cargill in her quest for vengeance against Naomi.
Naomi brutally ambushed Michin and B-Fab before the former was set to face Charlotte Flair. Jade Cargill ran in, which forced Naomi to beat a hasty retreat. Cargill stared down Charlotte, who was making her way for her match.
Charlotte Flair defeated Michin via submission with the Figure Eight.
Tiffany Stratton was interviewed backstage about her upcoming WrestleMania match against Charlotte. Stratton said that she was going to make sure Charlotte’s chances of being WWE Women’s Champion would stay in Vegas.
Drew McIntyre defeated Randy Orton via pinfall after Kevin Owens distracted Orton long enough for a McIntyre Claymore kick. Owens tried to attack Orton after the match, but Orton managed to fight back. Orton had Owens dead to rights for the Punt, but Owens managed to escape through the crowd to avoid it.
Jimmy Uso defeated The Miz via pinfall with the Uso Splash.
Backstage, Drew McIntyre was interviewed after he chatted with musician Lewis Capaldi. Just as he was about to leave for the pub, Damian Priest confronted McIntyre and attacked him in the arena parking lot. Priest chokeslammed McIntyre on the windshield of a car (that may or may not have had real glass) to finish his assault. CM Punk was shown walking past the fallen McIntyre and had a chuckle at the expense of his rival.
A recap of John Cena and Cody Rhodes’ faceoff from Raw this past Monday was shown.
The contract signing for Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 41 closed SmackDown for tonight. After the crowd sang for Reigns, Rollins was next to enter the proceedings. Rollins said that he and Reigns accomplished their “mission”, but Reigns would not have had any of it. Rollins put Reigns on full blast for letting the “snake”, CM Punk into the garden and that it was left on him to clean up the mess again. This brought out Punk not long after. Punk took his time to look for something in the contract, that something being that the triple threat match being the closing match for one of the WrestleMania 41 nights. Rollins threw a temper tantrum at this news due to his claims that Punk didn’t deserve to main event WrestleMania. The show went off the air with Reigns demanding that Punk acknowledge him for geting him this main event. Punk thanked him, but he said that was not the favor Paul Heyman owed him.
Notes
Bret Hart vs. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin from WrestleMania 13 was announced as the first match to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Another spooky teaser that may or may not be for the returning Aleister Black was shown, with “IV XXV” briefly flashing on the screen.
A lightning-filled teaser for Rey Fenix was shown, finally revealing that he’ll be debuting next week. on SmackDown.
Next Week on SmackDown: B-Fab versus Naomi, plus the debut of Rey Fenix.
WWE taped an additional episode of SmackDown on Friday that will air on November 30. This will serve as the go-home show for Survivor Series which will air the following day.
Michin defeated Piper Niven and Lash Legend to advance to the next round of the WWE Women’s United States Championship tournament. Legend replaced Jade Cargill who was attacked on Friday’s show. Chelsea Green came out and attacked Michin during the match but B-Fab made the save.
Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Andrade. After the match LA Knight attempted to attack Nakamura but was laid out after Nakamura sprayed him with black mist.
Cody Rhodes defeated Carmelo Hayes
Bianca Beleair, Naomi, IYO SKY, and Rhea Ripley came out to hype WarGames. It was revealed that Bayley would join them as the fifth person, replacing Cargill. Liv Morgan, Nia Jax, Raquel Rodriguez, Tiffany Stratton, and Candace LeRae came out for a confrontation. This led to a brawl until they were separated.
Jacob Fatu defeated Jey Uso in a match to determine which team gets the advantage in the men’s WarGames match.
The following are spoilers for the Friday, November 1 WWE SmackDown.
With the crew traveling to Saudi Arabia for next Saturday’s Crown Jewel PLE, next week’s episode was taped Friday night, October 25 in Brooklyn, New York at Barclays Center.
WWE SmackDown spoilers for the Friday, November 1 episode —
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) defeated Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson & Elton Prince)
IYO SKY won a four-way over Bianca Belair, Lash Legend, and Piper Niven
A face-to-face segment featuring WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax and Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan ended with Tiffany Stratton attacking Morgan.
Morgan defeated Stratton. Jax attacked Morgan after the match.
Bayley & Naomi defeated Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell
The Usos and Roman Reigns got on the same page in an in-ring promo segment. They seemed to reference a new match for Crown Jewel with Reigns & The Usos vs. The Bloodline.
Cody Rhodes & Randy Orton defeated Gunther & Ludwig Kaiser
Dark match: Seth Rollins defeated Dominik Mysterio
On the eve of the company’s first-ever PLE in Germany, WWE SmackDown takes place from Uber Arena in Berlin today.
The episode airs live in some international markets before being broadcast on Fox in the United States tonight. Our Markus Gronemann will be in the arena providing live spoilers.
A pair of championship matches are part of the SmackDown lineup. The United States title will be on the line as LA Knight issues an open challenge, while Nia Jax is set to defend her WWE Women’s Championship against Michin in a street fight. Knight and Jax both won their titles at SummerSlam with respective victories over Logan Paul and Bayley.
At Bash in Berlin, Cody Rhodes is defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Kevin Owens. The PLE will also feature a Women’s Tag Team title match between Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn and Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill. We’ll get the final build to those matches on SmackDown.
Join us for spoiler coverage starting a 12:30 p.m. Eastern time.
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Setup at the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany
Post-show dark matches announced
Damien Priest vs. Dominik Mysterio and Gunther vs. Ilja Dragunov (was originally scheduled as a tag with Gunther/Kaiser vs. Ilja/Sami Zayn)
Dark Match: Street Profits vs. A-Town Down
Theory and Waller attack before the bell, but quickly get thwarted. Crowd chants “Auf die Fresse”, which basically means ” hit ’em in the mouth”. Some heat on the Street Profits, but they quickly come back and get the win with the Electric Chair/Blockbustet combo.
German announcers at ringside
Holger Böschen and Walandi Tsanti come out to call the show from a second announce table at ringside, as the show airs live in Germany at 7 PM local time.
They are followed by Michael Cole and Wade Barrett.
SmackDownspoilers
A video plays of Cody Rhodes, Kevin Owens, Nia Jax and Tiffany Stratton arriving at the arena airs.
L.A. Knight open challenge segment
L.A. Knight comes out to a huge pop. The German fans love him and there were chants of L.A. Knight Yeah! all throughout the arena before the show started.
He talks about it took WWE 27 years to come back for a major televised event (they taped RAW in February 1997 and had the finals of the European championship in Berlin back then). Since Berlin is the capital of Germany, let’s call the U.S. title the capital title.
Ludwig Kaiser answers the open challenge and the roof blows off the building as the local hero comes to the ring. He says is the best in Germany and will rename the title the European championship. Knight says he won’t let Kaiser win the title.
They go nose-to-nose as the show heads to commercial. During the commercial, they played a clip for the new collegiate WWE championships. I’d guess less than 0.1% of the German audience follows U.S. college sports.
U.S. Championship: L.A. Knight vs. Ludwig Kaiser
Loud “Auf die Fresse!” and “Ludwig Kaiser” chants. The German crowd keeps going with “There’s only one Ludwig Kaiser” (in German) and “Ludwig Kaiser dop-dop-dop-dop” chants.
Knight works the arm, Kaiser takes over but quickly gets clotheslined. They brawl at ringside and Kaiser gets the better of the exchange, then runs around the ring and dropkicks Knight into the steps.
Back in the ring, Kaiser stops an attack, then stomps a mudhole into Knight in the corner. Knight rolls onto the apron, but Kaiser aggressively ground and pounds him. The crowd breaks into the “Oh, wie ist das schön!” (Oh, how beautiful that is) song. The action spills to ringside again ans this time, it’s Knight on the offense as he bashes Kaiser’s head into the announce table.
Back in the ring, Knight hits a neckbreaker and elbow off the second turnbuckle for a two-count. Kaiser scores a near-fall of his own with a beautiful enzuigiri. Kaiser keepa dominating as the crowd works itself more and more into a frenzy.
But German victory shall not be achieved on this day, as Knight suddenly hits the BFT for the pin and the win and actually got booed. Crowd still chants Ludwig Kaiser over Knight’s theme.
Baron Corbin & Apollo Crews vs. Legado del Fantasma (Angel & Berto) /w Elektra Lopez
This starts out as the Baron and Apollo show, with Apollo holding a vertical suplex and Corbin taking out both members of LdF by himself. Loud Baron Corbin chants.
Corbin launches apollo over the top with a hip toss onto the heels. Apollo gets worked over as the crowd chants “Ihr seid scheisse!”, which means “you are shitty”.Crews finally gets the hot tag and Corbin runs wild with clotheslines.Apollo taga back in and hits a crossbody and some German suplexes. All four men are down and Corbin and Angel roll to ringside, where Angel eats an uranage onto the announce table.
LdF make it back into the ring and pin Crews after an assisted knee strike.
Face to Face: Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens
Nick Aldis is in the ring, he throws to a highlight reel of the recent European tour, then thanks the fans in German for their support.
Kevin Owens is out next to another very good reaction. Cody, of course, is madly beloved as the crowd sings his song and some indoor pyro goes off.
Kevin actually asks Cody what he wants to talk about and Cody says the championship. Kevin says he wants to talk about something else, an apparent knee injury Cody suffered during the recent European tour leading up to Bash in Berlin. Cody brings up that last week, it looked like KO was about to hit him with the title belt.
Cody says that maybe Owens gets too little credit and he heimaelf gets too much. Owens brings up the knee again and Cody starts getting pissed. Owens said that if the knee is fine, why didn’t Cody take a knee as he usually does during his entrance. There is some more back and forth and Owens talks about first winning the title 8 years ago.
Cody asks if they will still be friends after tomorrow. Kevin drops the mic, whispers something into Cody’s ear and leaves, while Cody looks flustered.
Backstage segment
Corbin, Crews, Waller and Theory bicker. Waller and Theory tease dissensions. They make up and still will not break up already.
Andrade el Idolo vs. Carmelo Hayes
Carmelo gets thrown to the outside quickly and Andrade hits a springboard torneo. He follows with a double foot stomp onto the apron, as Hayes is helpless in the ropes. Andrade drops him with a sliding D for a two-count and they exchange offense.
Hayes locks in an armbar, but Andrade fights out. Andrade with a dragon screw and flying forearm, then hits a one-two moonsault combo as Hayes initially rolled out of the way. Hayes hits the running double knees in the corner. Andrade counters a suplex and wants the Three Amigos but as Hayes flips out, opts for a Karelin lift into a power bomb instead. Andrade with a Spanish Fly off the middle rope for a near fall. Andrade locks in a figure four, but Carmeo turns it. Hayes goes up top again and Andrade hits a Bandido-style moonsault power slam for a two-count. Both try for O’Connor rolls and Andrade eventually hits a spinning elbow. Hayes throws Andrade face first into an exposed buckle as he climbed the ropes, which looks brutal. Carmelo then hits Nothing but Net for the clean pin.
Street Fight for the women’s championship: Nia Jax vs. Michin
Michin is bavkstage with a kendo stick and cuts a promo before coming out with a cart of plunder. She whacks Nia with the stick right at the bell. They brawl outside briefly, then Michin gets Nia back with flying headscissors through the ropes.
The crowd chants for tables in English and German and Michin complies. There is some back and forth with nia putting the table away again, but eventually Michin prevails. Two tables are in the ring, and Jax throws in all the rest from the cart.
Michin blocks a kendo shot with a trash can lid and gets a few shots with the kendo stick in, but gets slammed onto the apron from inside the ring. Nia sets up tables, but Michin sprays her with a fire extinguisher.
More lid shots by Michin and a spinning DDT on the lids, before she sets up a table in the ring. Michin ends up on the table but rolls off and powerbombs Nia through the table.
It’s Tiffy Time, as Tiffany Straton hits the ring and hits Michin with the briefcase but is torn about cashing in. Just as she is about to insert herself into the match, Bayley’s music hits and she and Tiffany brawl through the crowd.
Nia hits a Samoan drop on Michin through a table propped up in the corner, then follows with the Annihilator for the win.
Post-show dark match #1: Damian Priest vs. Dominik Mysterio
The crowd love them some Damien and despise Dirty Dom, with loud “f*** you Dom!” chants. Dom attacks right away, but Damien quickly overpowers him. Dom takes more of a beating and quickly falls victim to South of Heaven.
Post-show dark match #2: Gunther vs. Ilja Dragunov for the WWE championship
A slightly toned down version of their previous battles, meaning they only killed each other death with chops, lariats and kicks 9/10th of the way. Gunther won with a brutal delayed powerbomb. Fantastic match. Post-match, Ilja got to celebrate in the center of the ring in the city where he grew up.
WWE Tag Team title number one contender’s gauntlet match: Street Profits vs. Apollo Crews & Baron Corbin vs. The Bloodline (Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa) vs. Pretty Deadly vs. The OC
LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar
Bayley & Michin vs. Tiffany Stratton & Nia Jax
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Spoilers for the Friday, July 26 WWE SmackDown —
LA Knight defeated Santos Escobar — United States Champion & Knight’s SummerSlam opponent Logan Paul attacked Knight.
A-Town Down Under’s Grayson Waller & Austin Theory had an in-ring promo segment with boxer Terence Crawford. Crawford knocked out Theory.
Queen of the Ring Nia Jax & Money in the Bank winner Tiffany Stratton defeated WWE Women’s Champion Bayley & Michin
The Bloodline won a gauntlet match to become number one contenders to the WWE Tag Team titles in a bout also featuring The Street Profits, Legado Del Fantasma, The OC, Baron Corbin & Apollo Crews, and Pretty Deadly.
The following are spoilers for the Friday, February 23 WWE SmackDown episode & future WWE Speed programming taped Friday, February 16 in Salt Lake City.
Matches for Speed were taped prior to the live SmackDown episode that aired on Friday night, with next week’s SmackDown being taped after the live airing as WWE will be in Australia for next Saturday’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Speed will stream exclusively on X beginning this spring as part of a two-year deal for the new concept.
US title contender’s tournament semifinals: Santos Escobar defeated Bobby Lashley
Escobar won with interference from Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo.
NXT North American Champion Dragon Lee defeated Butch to retain the title
AJ Styles, Randy Orton, LA Knight promo segment
All three stated their intent to challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed Universal Championship at Royal Rumble. SmackDown GM Nick Aldis made a triple threat match with Styles vs. Orton vs. Knight at SmackDown New Year’s Revolution with the winner set to face Reigns for the title at Royal Rumble.
WWE taped the 6/30 SmackDown at 8 p.m. GMT time from London’s O2 Arena today.
The show aired live on BT Sports in the UK. It will air on a five hour delay on Fox at its usual time of 8 p.m. Eastern.
Below are spoilers from the show:
Sami Zayn & Kevin Owens defeated Pretty Deadly to retain the WWE Undisputed Tag Team Championships in the opener.
Zayn pinned Kit Wilson after a Helluva Kick
Owens came up limping on his left ankle after a cannonball in the corner. He favored his ankle for the rest of the match.
Austin Theory defeated Ridge Holland
Finish came after Holland hit a series of suplexes and looked to go for a Running power slam out of the corner but Theory escaped to the outside. Theory then hit a cheap shot to Holland’s throat through the ropes and landed a rolling dropkick for the win.
Theory continued the attack after the match until Sheamus came out to make the save.
A video recapping The Bloodline Civil War airs.
Bayley defeated Shotzi to retain her spot in the women’s Money in the Bank ladder match
Bayley received her traditional UK chants from the O2 Arena fans.
She got the win after a rake of the eyes and Rose Plant.
Shotzi confronted Bayley and IYO in the back after a commercial break but they suplexed her onto a table and cut off a chunk of her hair.
Logan Paul appears on The Grayson Waller Effect
A very negative reaction for Paul from the London crowd.
Paul spoke briefly about what he would do if he wins the briefcase tomorrow before he was interrupted by LA Knight, who received a much more positive response.
Knight said the odds favored him at Money in the Bank because he’s a megastar. Paul told Knight that he was only supposed to be a “mega manager” in WWE.
Santos Escobar came out next. Escobar promised that the LWO would win the men’s and women’s MITB matches.
Butch ran out and attacked Paul right away and then everyone started brawling and the show went to commercial.
Butch defeated Santos Escobar and LA Knight in a triple threat match
Butch pinned Escobar with The Bitter End.
After the match, Butch set up a ladder and everyone took turns trying to climb it and take down the briefcase. The segment ended with Butch eventually being the one to unhook the briefcase.
In a backstage segment, AJ Styles accepted Karrion Kross’ challenge for a match.
The SmackDown Women’s Championship match between Asuka and Charlotte Flair was thrown out after Belair attacked Asuka.
Belair had been banned from ringside but purchased a ticket and was in the front row.
After the match, Belair gave both Flair and Asuka KODs onto the announce table.
AJ Styles vs. Karrion Kross, and Edge on The Grayson Waller Effect was announced for next week’s show from Madison Square Garden.
Roman Reigns, Paul Heyman, and Solo Sikoa came out for an in-ring promo
Reigns said he would give his cousins another chance if they came out, bowed down, acknowledged him and apologized.
This brought out The Usos.
Usos came out and said when Roman loses tomorrow he won’t be Tribal Chief anymore. They then implied that perhaps Sikoa could be the new Tribal Chief.
Things eventually broke down and the two teams brawled to end the show.
