Tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown (December 5, 2025) emanates out of the Moody Center in Austin, Texas and will air at 8 p.m. ET on the USA Network.
This post here will be updated frequently throughout the night to reflect live coverage of Friday Night SmackDown, including all the match results, rundowns of the promos, and any other interesting or noteworthy things that take place. Keep refreshing for updates to find out all the winners and more!
Preview & Predictions for WWE SmackDown:
On tap for tonight's episode, the primary focal point is obviously going to be the finals of The Last Time is Now tournament, as Gunther and LA Knight will battle it out to settle who gets to face John Cena eight days later at the December 13th WWE Saturday Night's Main Event special.
From the start of this, the heavy rumor and the thing that made the most sense always revolved around Gunther winning this, even while he was out of action with a nose injury. Once he was confirmed for the tournament, that felt like a locked-in deal and a certainty. Nothing is entirely guaranteed (as evidenced by the way this tournament has played out with Sheamus and Penta getting injured), but I feel like this is as much of a safe bet as you could possibly get. I just can't see a scenario where they booked this all to lead to LA Knight being the one to retire Cena.
Naturally, other things will be on the card as well. We'll see more progression with this Jade Cargill and Chelsea Green storyline that is for some reason repeating the "WWE Women's Champion and WWE Women's United States Champion have beef with each other because we have no other ideas of what we want to do with this women's division on SmackDown" concept that had previously happened with Tiffany Stratton and Giulia.
We'll see some more within the tag team division, too, after The Wyatt Sicks and MFTs have been heading toward a collision course, particularly following the Survivor Series elimination match.
All that and more will go down tonight, so keep checking and refreshing for the most up-to-date results!
Here are your results for WWE SmackDown - December 5, 2025:
- TBD - Cody Rhodes has a "what's next" promo
- TBD - Alexa Bliss vs Kairi Sane
- TBD - Jade Cargill vs Alba Fyre
- TBD - Solo Sikoa responds to the ending of last week's Survivor Series match with The Wyatt Sicks
- TBD - United States Championship Open Challenge: Ilja Dragunov (c) vs ???
- TBD - The Last Time is Now Tournament Final: Gunther vs LA Knight
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