Tonight's episode of WWE SmackDown (May 9, 2025) emanates out of the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio 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 today's episode, John Cena will make another one of his appearances as he hypes up his match against Randy Orton for WWE Backlash on Saturday. If he's truly only going to appear around 20-something dates this year, those are being eaten up very quickly, and it's going to reach a point where he's going to have to sit out a while. Whether or not anything happens here that makes it necessary remains to be seen, but more than likely, the match has already sold itself. Nevertheless, the promo should be good, and they might end up brawling.
Jade Cargill will face Nia Jax to determine who is the next in line to challenge Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women's Championship. So far, it has yet to be confirmed when that title match would take place, but Backlash is too soon. More than likely, it will be Saturday Night's Main Event. Don't be too surprised if either of them win, or if Naomi gets involved and it leads to an announcement of a Fatal 4-Way for the title instead. This could really go in any of three directions. If Jax wins, it will be due to interference from Naomi. If Cargill wins, she'll do it clean.
LA Knight and Damian Priest will team up against Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu. Watch out for Sikoa to take the pinfall loss so two of Fatu's challengers for Backlash look strong. Also, keep an eye out for Drew McIntyre sticking his nose into this business, as he's the other party fighting for the United States Championship on Saturday.
Here are your results for WWE SmackDown - May 9, 2025:
- Damian Priest & LA Knight defeated Jacob Fatu & Solo Sikoa by pinfall. Drew McIntyre then attacked and stood tall with the United States Championship belt.
- Backstage, Chelsea Green and The Secret Hervice were mourning over Green's Women's United States Championship loss, in Nick Aldis's office. Zelina Vega came over and challenged them to a tag team match.
- Vignette: Aleister Black spoke about how he's playing both a mental and a physical game, putting Carmelo Hayes on warning.
- Zelina Vega & Alexa Bliss defeated The Green Regime (Chelsea Green & Piper Niven, with Alba Fyre) by pinfall.
- Rey Fenix was attacked backstage by Legado del Fantasma. Andrade came over to check up on him.
- Promo: Charlotte Flair tried to talk about WrestleMania and heading back into the title hunt, but got booed so much that she left in a tantrum. Nick Aldis called her out on this and she went to get to her car to leave and was stopped by Alexa Bliss, who said that they should talk.
- No. 1 Contender's Match: Nia Jax defeated Jade Cargill by pinfall due to some interference from Naomi.
- Fraxiom (Axiom & Nathan Frazer) defeated The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) by pinfall.
- Aleister Black defeated Carmelo Hayes by pinfall.
- Jacob Fatu and Solo Sikoa aren't on the same page for Backlash plans.
- Fraxiom had a backstage run-in with The Motor City Machine Guns. They're looking forward to facing each other. #DIY attacked both of them.
- Andrade and Rey Fenix defeated Los Garza (Angel & Berto) by pinfall. After the match, Santos Escobar talked down to Berto for losing, so Berto stormed off.
- Promo: John Cena hyped up how he's going to beat Randy Orton at Backlash and continue to ruin wrestling. Randy Orton attacked Cena from behind, and Cena was
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