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WWE Friday Night SmackDown May 15th, 2026 Results & Recap: Gunther Earns Cody Rhodes Clash In Italy Title Match, Trick Williams Gets Loud Columbia Homecoming

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Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown from Columbia, South Carolina felt different because I was not just watching it through a screen. I was inside Colonial Life Arena, surrounded by a loud crowd that stayed active for almost the entire three-hour experience, from the pre-show action to the Main Event taping to SmackDown itself. The … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown May 1st, 2026 Results & Recap: Gunther Chokes Out Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu Wrecks MFT & Fatal Influence Puts The Women’s Division On Notice

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Last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was a busy, important and uneven stop on the road to Backlash — the kind of episode where WWE moved a lot of pieces forward, but also exposed some of the same creative habits that keep holding the product back. Cody Rhodes returned to the ring, Ricky Saints made … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown After Mania April 24th, 2026 Results & Recap: Fatal Influence Arrives, Tiffany Stratton Wins Gold, Jacob Fatu Destroys MFT

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The SmackDown After Mania should have felt like a reset. Instead, it felt like a company trying to convince itself it had momentum while terrible WWE release news hung over the entire night. As mentioned in my LNC Wrestling article on the WWE releases, that news broke right before SmackDown went on the air last … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown April 17th, 2026 Results & Recap: Randy Orton Finally Gives Cody Rhodes Real Story, Royce Keys Wins the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal

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WWE had three hours, the WrestleMania stage, a loaded roster, and one final chance to make the blue brand feel essential heading into the biggest weekend of the year. Instead, last night’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown felt like a show that kept teasing urgency without ever fully committing to it. Randy Orton finally delivered the … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown April 3rd, 2026 Results & Recap: Pat McAfee Revealed as Randy Orton’s Mystery Caller, Sami Zayn Retains Over Carmelo Hayes

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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

WWE Friday Night SmackDown March 13, 2026 Results & Recap: The Viper Strikes as Randy Orton Bloodies Cody Rhodes

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Last night’s SmackDown was a show that spent most of its two hours flirting with frustration before finally finding its bite. For long stretches, this was a serviceable WrestleMania build built on shaky character logic, rushed contender decisions, and storylines that too often feel like they are moving in circles instead of building with purpose. … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown March 6th, 2026 Results & Recap: Cody Rhodes Regains the WWE Title as Randy Orton’s WrestleMania Main Event Takes Center Stage

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Less than seven weeks before WrestleMania 42, WWE had a chance on Friday night to make SmackDown feel urgent, focused, and impossible to ignore. Instead, the March 6 episode felt like a show torn between big headline developments and deeply frustrating creative habits. On paper, this was a monumental night: Cody Rhodes regained the Undisputed … Read more

WWE Monday Night RAW Dec. 29th, 2025 Results and Recap: The Usos Reclaim Tag Team Glory as 9-Time Champions, Vaquer Stands Tall, and Penta Shakes RAW’s 2026 Landscape

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WWE officially closed out Monday Night RAW’s 2025 calendar year with a decisive, event-level episode designed to do one thing above all else: draw a hard line between what RAW was in 2025 and what it intends to be in 2026. From the opening minutes dominated by The Vision, to Stephanie Vaquer’s defining Women’s World … Read more

Netflix and WWE Announce ‘WWE: Unreal’ Season 2, Premiering January 20 with Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Cody Rhodes & Rhea Ripley

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Netflix’s hit behind-the-scenes WWE docuseries WWE: Unreal is officially stepping back through the curtain. Netflix and WWE today announced that Season 2 of WWE: Unreal will premiere globally on Netflix on January 20, 2026, delivering five new 50-minute episodes that once again pull fans from the writers’ room straight to the roar of the arena … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown Nov. 28, 2025 Spoilers (Taped Nov. 21)

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SPOILER ALERT: The following details are from the post-show taping on Nov. 21, 2025 in Denver (Ball Arena), which was done to give talent and crew Thanksgiving week off. These are confirmed results and segments.  Key Spoilers from the Nov. 21 Taping The Last Time Is Now Tournament Update Here’s the confirmed status of the … Read more