WWE Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown will deliver the company’s go-home week for Sunday Night’s Main Event, but both episodes were recorded in advance at Rocket Arena in Cleveland on Friday, August 28. RAW will air August 31, while SmackDown will air September 4, two nights before the September 6 special. The RAW … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown finally feels like a show beginning to rediscover its creative identity, but last night also exposed the biggest problem standing between the blue brand and becoming consistently great again: WWE suddenly has more worthwhile stories than it has television time to properly tell them. From CM Punk and Kevin Owens finally … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown finally feels like it has some teeth again. Tonight wasn’t perfect, and there are still a few frustrating booking habits WWE refuses to let die, but the difference between the blue brand before SummerSlam and what we have watched over the last two Fridays is hard to ignore. Stories are moving. … Read more
WWE SmackDown August 7 2026 results delivered something last night’s post-SummerSlam show desperately needed: actual direction. SmackDown only featured three matches, but WWE clearly treated the episode as a storyline reset rather than a wrestling-heavy card. Kevin Owens finally stood across the ring from CM Punk and immediately made their Undisputed WWE Championship program feel … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown delivered its final stop on the road to SummerSlam last night from the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with CM Punk and Cody Rhodes finally abandoning the uneasy respect that had defined their Undisputed WWE Championship rivalry. The two SummerSlam opponents closed the show by fighting around ringside as referees … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown entered Oakland with SummerSlam only eight days away and several major blue-brand stories still lacking urgency. By the end of the night, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes finally stopped hiding behind mutual respect, Nick Aldis temporarily surrendered control of SmackDown to fight GUNTHER, and Finn Bálor earned an opportunity to … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown entered Albany, New York, without much of an advertised card, but left MVP Arena having significantly altered the road to Saturday Night’s Main Event and SummerSlam. GUNTHER learned that attacking Nick Aldis somehow earned him another route into the Undisputed WWE Championship picture, Cody Rhodes allowed his anger to drag … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown entered last night carrying the immediate consequences of one of the most abrupt Undisputed WWE Championship changes in recent memory. CM Punk arrived in Oklahoma City as the new champion after unexpectedly replacing an injured Cody Rhodes and ending Sami Zayn’s nine-day reign on Monday Night RAW, but WWE did not … Read more
WWE taped this Friday’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown on Monday night from Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, immediately following the special early-start edition of Monday Night RAW. The taping comes just days after WWE Night of Champions and begins SmackDown’s push toward SummerSlam, with the blue brand moving forward under … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown for June 26th, 2026 was taped on Tuesday, June 23rd from The O2 Arena in London, England, as WWE continued its overseas run on the road to Night of Champions. Credit to Fightful Select for the original full spoiler rundown. Since this episode was taped ahead of Friday’s broadcast, SmackDown will … Read more
