SmackDown last night was supposed to feel like the blue brand’s hard final push before WrestleMania 42, the penultimate stop before next Saturday and Sunday in Las Vegas. Instead, it was a show that constantly felt like it was fighting its own momentum. There was good wrestling on the episode. Bayley and Alexa Bliss put … Read more
Two weeks before WrestleMania 42, last night’s SmackDown should have been about tightening the blue brand’s biggest stories, raising the stakes, and making the road to WrestleMania feel urgent. Instead, it often felt like a show working against itself. The headline angle gave Randy Orton’s mystery caller reveal to Pat McAfee, who low-blowed Cody Rhodes … Read more
Last night’s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown was the kind of show that gave WWE plenty of headline moments while also leaving behind a lot of frustration once everything settled. On paper, the blue brand had a lot going for it. Sami Zayn won the United States Championship. Cody Rhodes returned. Jacob Fatu and … Read more
Last night on SmackDown, WWE tried to sell Elimination Chamber with volatility: Jey Uso taken out before the bell, the Men’s Chamber field collapsing into a shouting match, a “winner takes the final spot” main event, and a Women’s Tag Team Championship change clearly designed to unburden Rhea Ripley before she steps into the Chamber … Read more
SmackDown from Dallas didn’t feel like a “weekly stop” — it felt like WWE tightening the final bolts before Elimination Chamber and forcing every major player to show their hand. The show opened with a returning Tiffany Stratton walking straight into a tag-title storm, escalated into faction warfare when Solo Sikoa and The MFTs hijacked … Read more
Friday Night SmackDown broadcast from the OVO Arena Wembley in London delivered a strategic and consequential episode on the Road to Royal Rumble and Saturday Night’s Main Event. With the newly crowned Undisputed WWE Champion Drew McIntyre holding court in the opening segment, the show laid the groundwork for his first title defense by beginning … Read more
WWE’s European Tour continues tonight as Friday Night SmackDown emanates from the OVO Arena Wembley in London, England, airing live internationally on Netflix at 2 PM Eastern, with a tape-delayed broadcast in the United States at 8 PM Eastern. Tonight, SmackDown kicks off a mini No. 1 contender tournament that will determine who challenges Drew … Read more
WWE delivered a seismic edition of Friday Night SmackDown on January 9th, 2026, broadcasting live from the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany. Airing internationally on Netflix at 2 p.m. EST, the show served as a critical checkpoint on the Road to Saturday Night’s Main Event in Montreal — while simultaneously accelerating WWE toward a historic … Read more
The first WWE Friday Night SmackDown of 2026 didn’t just ring in the New Year — it detonated the door wide open. In its highly anticipated return to a three-hour format, SmackDown delivered stacked matches, shocking returns, blazing debuts, and major roster announcements live from the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. The blue brand … Read more
There are nights where a wrestling show feels less like a program and more like a pulse—each segment beating like a drum, each match tightening the knot in your chest because you can feel what’s coming next. That was TNA iMPACT! on December 11, 2025: a post-Final Resolution reckoning that didn’t just set the table … Read more
