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WWE Friday Night SmackDown October 9, 2026 Results and Recap: Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley Win Tag Gold, The Vision Wrecks the Main Event

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Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown crowned Alexa Bliss and Tatum Paxley the new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, giving Tatum the payoff she had earned even after Charlotte Flair’s injury threatened her opportunity. Bliss stepped in, Fatal Influence lost its gold, and tomorrow’s Money in the Bank received one final reminder that World Tag Team … Read more

Cody Rhodes Confirms New WWE Contract, but Key Terms Stay Private

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Cody Rhodes has confirmed that he recently re-signed with WWE and intends to finish his wrestling career with the company. The announcement makes his preferred destination clear, but the deal’s length, financial value and expiration date remain undisclosed. The 41-year-old revealed the deal during an interview released Wednesday, October 7, while discussing retirement, outside projects … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown October 2, 2026 Results & Recap: Kevin Owens Qualifies After Randy Orton Costs Cody Rhodes

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The WWE SmackDown Results from last night completed both Money in the Bank ladder-match fields as Kevin Owens and Tiffany Stratton claimed the final two spots. Owens’ victory came with another major assist from Randy Orton, who prevented Cody Rhodes from winning and later stopped him from breaking the deciding pin. The October 2 show … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown September 25, 2026 Results and Recap: CM Punk Steals His Way Into Money in the Bank, Cody Rhodes Draws Boos

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WWE Friday Night SmackDown continued its road to Money in the Bank last night from Indianapolis with a show that only featured four matches but somehow felt busier than plenty of cards twice that size. CM Punk and Lash Legend punched their tickets to Money in the Bank, Trick Williams survived Baron Corbin inside a … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown, September 18, 2026 Results & Recap: Sami Zayn Survives Kevin Owens, CM Punk Gets the Last Word

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WWE Friday Night SmackDown tonight was less about Sami Zayn celebrating becoming a two-time Undisputed WWE Champion and more about how quickly his second reign is becoming surrounded by enemies. Seven days after Zayn defeated CM Punk in Mexico City under controversial circumstances, the champion talked himself directly into another problem. Kevin Owens received an … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown September 18, 2026 Preview: Sami Zayn Faces the Fallout, Money in the Bank Qualifiers Begin

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The WWE Friday Night SmackDown September 18, 2026 Preview arrives one week after Sami Zayn finally got the “justice” he spent months demanding. Tonight’s show airs live at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network from the Hilliard Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, with Zayn appearing for the first time since defeating CM Punk to become … Read more

WWE Friday Night SmackDown September 11, 2026 Results & Recap: Sami Zayn Dethrones CM Punk, Damian Priest Turns on R-Truth

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WWE SmackDown Results from September 11, 2026 gave Mexico City the consequential show WWE needed. Sami Zayn regained the Undisputed WWE Championship from CM Punk in a main event that started as a smart fight over two damaged body parts before outside interference turned everything upside down. Damian Priest finally turned on R-Truth, Ricky Saints … Read more

WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event September 6, 2026 Results & Recap: Randy Orton Beats Cody Rhodes, Bronson Reed Returns

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WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event September 6, 2026 results gave WWE a strange mixture of strong consequential storytelling, frustratingly protected booking and moments that were considerably better in concept than execution. Tonight from State Farm Arena in Atlanta ultimately belonged to Randy Orton, who ruined Cody Rhodes’ hometown homecoming by exploiting the exact piece of … Read more

WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event September 6, 2026 Preview: Cody Rhodes vs. Randy Orton, Oba Femi vs. Bron Breakker

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The WWE Sunday Night’s Main Event September 6, 2026 Preview is built around two matches carrying considerably more weight than the four-match lineup initially suggests. Tonight, WWE brings its first-ever Sunday Night’s Main Event to State Farm Arena in Atlanta at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, with Cody Rhodes finally getting his hands on Randy … Read more

WWE Has the Future Standing Right in Front of It — So Why Does the Past Still Own the Main Event?

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WWE future stars are not the problem. It has a problem trusting the future enough to let it become the present. That is an important difference, because this is not a company looking around the locker room wondering where the next generation is supposed to come from. Bron Breakker is already here. Oba Femi is … Read more