WWE NXT reaches its final stop before NXT Heatwave tonight with a card that is smaller than last week’s lineup but carries considerably heavier consequences. Rey Fenix will put the AAA Cruiserweight Championship on the line against rising prospect EK Prosper, while months of betrayal, beatdowns and unfinished business between Saquon Shugars and Dion Lennox … Read more
WWE taped the August 28, 2026 edition of Friday Night SmackDown tonight following Monday Night RAW at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The taped episode continues several of SmackDown’s biggest ongoing stories while also setting up additional matches and developments heading toward WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event on September 6. Fightful was the … Read more
WWE Friday Night SmackDown August 21, 2026 arrives in Toronto with an Undisputed WWE Championship match carrying considerably more baggage than the usual television title defense. Tonight, CM Punk puts the championship on the line against Kevin Owens after their two-decade history finally spilled into the open last week, while Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton … Read more
The Chelsea Green injury could not have happened at a worse possible time for WWE or its suddenly snake-bitten SmackDown women’s division. Less than one week after finally reaching the top of WWE’s women’s division by winning the Interim WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam Night 2, Green confirmed that she suffered a broken orbital bone … Read more
Boston’s TD Garden exploded tonight with a show packed full of high-stakes drama, shocking turns, and storyline fireworks. John Cena’s hometown stop became the emotional epicenter as he defeated Dominik Mysterio to win the Intercontinental Championship, completing his Grand Slam and elevating the newly launched “Last Time Is Now” Tournament into a bona fide title chase. The night … Read more
WWE has confirmed the first two opening-round matches for the 16-man “Last Time Is Now” tournament — the company’s on-air mechanism to determine John Cena’s final WWE opponent. The initial match-ups pit Rusev vs. Damian Priest and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Sheamus, with the tournament set to begin on the November 10 edition of Monday Night … Read more
Last night’s edition of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, live from Newark’s Prudential Center, served as an explosive go-home show for the first-ever two-night SummerSlam and delivered wall-to-wall drama that shook the foundations of WWE’s biggest rivalries. Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena opened the broadcast with a career-defining moment, publicly abandoning his controversial heel persona and … Read more
John Cena stunned the wrestling world tonight on SmackDown by decisively casting aside the heel character he had inhabited since his dramatic turn at Elimination Chamber earlier this year—and affirming that the true John Cena, the ultimate babyface the WWE Universe adores, is back. Cena revealed to Cody Rhodes that he “flushed the heel gimmick … Read more
The final Friday Night SmackDown before WWE’s blockbuster two-night SummerSlam is live tonight, and the blue brand is unleashing every ounce of tension, turmoil, and triumph built over months of storytelling. With championships on the line, rivalries reaching a boiling point, and real-world chaos bleeding into WWE programming, this go-home show is more than a … Read more
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown promises a high-stakes episode packed with intense confrontations and pivotal matches as SummerSlam draws near. Randy Orton and country star Jelly Roll team up to confront Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul, escalating the tension ahead of their celebrity tag match at SummerSlam. Meanwhile, newly crowned WWE Tag Team Champions The … Read more
