Tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown (February 14, 2025) emanates out of the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. 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, Tiffany Stratton defends her WWE Women's Championship against Nia Jax—the woman she defeated for that title by cashing in her Money in the Bank contract. This is Tiffy's roadbump to WrestleMania 41 as she seeks to walk into Las Vegas with the gold to face either Charlotte Flair or the winner of the Women's Elimination Chamber match.
Speaking of which, there will be two more qualifying matches for those Elimination Chamber bouts. On the women's side, one half of the women's tag team champions Naomi will face the Women's United States champion Chelsea Green. With Michin, B-Fab, and Zelina Vega all gunning for Green, there are a lot of potential outside factors that could cause a distraction and prevent Green from winning.
Braun Strowman, Damian Priest and Jacob Fatu are also set to battle it out in a Triple Threat match to qualify for the men's Elimination Chamber match. This could theoretically go any way, but my prediction leans more toward The Archer of Infamy.
Solo Sikoa also returns to SmackDown after attacking Cody Rhodes last week. My guess is WWE couldn't think of anything for The American Nightmare to do for the next month and decided to just rinse and repeat again, and possibly realized that Jacob Fatu has been getting cheered too much lately, so if there's a plan in place to do Sikoa vs. Fatu at WrestleMania (just a guess), maybe they pivoted and Fatu will be the babyface instead of what could've been the original idea of Sikoa turning.
Here are your results for WWE SmackDown - February 14, 2025:
- Cody Rhodes opened the show with a promo that was interrupted by Drew McIntyre, followed by Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga. Summary being McIntyre is upset that Rhodes isn't giving him enough credit for Elimination Chamber, Fatu plans on qualifying, Fatu now has issues with McIntyre (but they won't fight today), and when Solo Sikoa popped up backstage, Fatu and Tonga left to go to the back to take care of family business.
- Women’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Match: Naomi defeated Chelsea Green by pinfall. Trish Stratus was in the crowd and she said that she's going to be at Elimination Chamber.
- From his home, Sami Zayn spoke about the attack from Kevin Owens and how it's different this time, as Owens tried to end his career, so when he's back, he's coming for Owens.
- The Motor City Machine Guns defeated Los Garza by pinfall.
- Backstage, Fatu and Tonga approached Sikoa in the locker room. Sikoa said he needed time off, but he's ready to take over and wants them to be together with him. It starts with Fatu winning the Elimination Chamber. "I love you, Jacob." Fatu didn't say it back.
- Shinsuke Nakamura cut a promo in the ring about not having any worthy challengers for the United States Championship. LA Knight interrupted, and as he was talking about how he should be the next in line for a title shot, The Miz interrupted to agree with Nakamura and to badmouth the crowd and Knight. They jaw-jacked opposite each other until SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis came out to book a match between the two with the winner becoming the No. 1 contender to face Nakamura for the United States title.
- LA Knight defeated The Miz by pinfall.
- Backstage, Alexa Bliss teased having another match against Nia Jax at WrestleMania if they were to win the title and Elimination Chamber matches. The screen glitched at one point when Bliss was there, possibly to indicate she'll be associated with The Wyatt Sicks.
- Also backstage, Andrade told The Miz he can teach him something if he wants. Carmelo Hayes then had a moment with The Miz, saying people like Andrade don't respect guys like them. Miz tried to set up a tag team with them as "Melo Don't Miz", but Melo just walked off.
- Carmelo Hayes defeated R-Truth by pinfall.
- The Street Profits are going to take over the tag team division. Pretty Deadly had a moment with #DIY backstage, since they're fighting next week.
- Kevin Owens had a video about how he'll show Sami Zayn what real pain is, and he'll see him at Elimination Chamber.
- WWE Women's Championship Match: Tiffany Stratton (c) defeated Nia Jax by disqualification. After the match, Jax continues to beat down on Stratton until Trish Stratus made the save, but fell victim as well. Jax and LeRae left, and Charlotte Flair came out to the ring to say she's made her decision to choose Stratton for WrestleMania.
- Backstage, Nick Aldis showed footage to Bianca Belair and Naomi of the Jade Cargill attack, which shows Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez in a suspicious light.
- Tiffany Stratton talks to Byron Saxton. Trish Stratton comes over to suggest they should team up against Jax and LeRae at Elimination Chamber.
- Drew McIntyre and Jimmy Uso had a moment backstage where after some badmouthing, Uso took out McIntyre.
- Men’s Elimination Chamber Qualifying Triple Threat Match: Damian Priest defeated Jacob Fatu andBraun Strowman.
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