WWE held this week’s episode of SmackDown on Friday night January 3rd, 2025 from the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The event aired live on the USA Network and is the first 3 Hour broadcast for the program.
Below are the quick results for tonight’s episode of SmackDown – 1/3/25:
- Cody Rhodes Opens the show with in-ring segment
- Drew McIntyre interrupts Cody’s promo. They exchange words, before Drew leaves, and tells Cody to watch his back
- Kevin Owens attacks Cody Rhodes from behind. The two brawl in the ring resulting in a pull apart
- Backstage shots are shown of The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga & Jacob Fatu) walking teasing their match tonight, then Naomi and Bianca Belair are shown, then Nia Jax hyping their title match later tonight, finally Andrade is shown walking backstage prior to his title match later tonight with Shinsuke Nakamura
- WWE United States Title Match: Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Andrade
- Shinsuke Nakamura defeats Andrade via pinfall to retain the WWE US Title
- LA Knight attacks Shinsuke Nakamura post match
- LA Knight cuts a promo on Nakamura
- Backstage segment with Apollo Crews and Pretty Deadly
- Legado del Fantasma interrupts and confronts Pretty Deadly leading to a scuffle between them that is eventually broken up
- Nick Aldis tells Pretty Deadly to stay so they can have a chat
- Backstage segment with DIY and Pretty Deadly
- Michin vs. Piper Niven w/ WWE United States Champion Chelsea Green
- Michin defeats Piper Niven via pinfall
- Paul Heyman is shown walking into the venue.. and avoids the metal detector
- Naomi vignette is shown
- Paul Heyman is in the ring and cuts a promo on Solo Sikoa
- as Heyman is about to leave Solo Sikoa’s music hits and he makes his way to the ring
- Solo Sikoa confronts Paul Heyman in the ring
- Motor City Machine Guns vignette
- WWE Tag Team Championship Match: DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) (c) vs. Motor City Machine Guns
- Pretty Deadly rushes the ring and gets involved attempting to cost the Motor City Machine Guns the match
- Legado del Fantasmo rushes the ring and chases off Pretty Deadly into the crowd
- Pretty Deadly returns to the ring followed by Garza, they brawl and land on DIY and MCMG
- Referee stops the match. DIY are still the WWE Tag Team Champions
- Backstage promo with Nia Jax and Candice LeRae
- Backstage segment with Carmelo Hayes, Sami Zayn, and the Usos.
- Backstage segment The Usos bump into Kevin Owens. Owens tells them to watch their back.
- Recap of opening segment with Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre, leading to Kevin Owens attacking Cody from behind
- Cody Rhodes backstage segment with Nick Aldis
- WWE Women’s Championship Match: Naomi vs. Nia Jax (c) w/Candice LeRae
- Tiffany Stratton’s music hits. She runs down with a ref to cash in the MITB briefcase, but right when the ref was about to make the cash in official, she takes out the ref and hits Naomi with the briefcase.
- Nia Jax pins Naomi to retain the WWE Women’s Title
- Tiffany attacks Nia from behind post match with the brief case. Tiffany throws Candice out of the ring.
- Bianca hits the KOD on Nia. Tiffany takes out Bianca.
- TIFFANY CASHES IN THE MONEY IN THE BANK BRIEFCASE
- Stratton hits the Prettiest Moonsault Ever on Nia Jax, and scores the pinfall to become the new WWE Women’s Champion!
- Tiffany Stratton Wins the WWE Women’s Championship and celebrates in the ring with pyro
- Bloodline Saga vignette shown hyping Monday’s Tribal Combat for control of the head of the table
- Backstage segment shown of The Bloodline – Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, and Jacob Fatu who yells about how much he loves Solo as then enter the arena for the six-man tag match
- The Bloodline in the ring as commercial break hits
- Backstage promo with LA Knight and Byron Saxton announces US Title Match against Shinsuke Nakamura next Friday on SmackDown
- Back to The Bloodline in the ring waiting for their opponents
- Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, and Sami Zayn are show making their way through the concourse and then yeeting through the crowd as Jey Uso’s music plays
- The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, & Jacob Fatu) vs. Sami Zayn & The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso)
- Drew McIntyre comes down to distract Jey Uso, which gives the Bloodline the upperhand momentarily
- Solo hits Jey Uso with the Samoan Spike and scores the pinfall victory
- The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, & Jacob Fatu) defeat Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, & Sami Zayn
- Monday Night RAW matches hyped for Netflix debut on January 6th are shown, including John Cena’s appearance
- The Bloodline puts their 1’s up as the show ends
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