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 SummerSlam Night 2 preview coverage begins with a card carrying a much different responsibility than the opening half of WWE’s biggest event of the summer. Night 1 delivered a career-defining victory for Oba Femi, Randy Orton’s shocking return, CM Punk retaining the Undisputed WWE Championship and several developments that immediately changed WWE’s direction. Tonight … 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
WWE NXT entered tonight needing more urgency on the road to Heatwave, and Grayson Waller supplied nearly all of it before the first match even started. Returning to the brand that originally transformed him into one of WWE’s most irritating and effective antagonists, Waller delivered a blistering opening statement about his stalled main-roster career, his … Read more
WWE has finally revealed how its 12-match SummerSlam 2026 card will be divided across Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2, at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. SmackDown commentator Joe Tessitore announced the official Night 1 and Night 2 lineups during an appearance on ESPN’s Get Up this morning, ending the speculation surrounding which matches … 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
WWE returned to Madison Square Garden tonight with a four-match Saturday Night’s Main Event July 18 card that delivered two championship-altering results, a violent breakthrough for Lyra Valkyria, one of the most intentionally ridiculous celebrity cameos WWE has produced in years and a main event finish that protected CM Punk versus Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam … 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
