WWE SmackDown is stay tonight (Aug. 14, 2026) from the TD Backyard in Boston, Massachusetts, and we’re carrying ahead on the highway to Saturday Sunday Evening’s Fundamental Occasion.
Marketed for tonight: WWE Males’s Tag Staff Champions Damian Priest and Ron “the Fact” Killings put their titles on the road in three-way motion in opposition to AAA Tag Staff Champions Conflict Raiders and the Sons of Haku!
Plus, confrontations a-plenty within the males’s most important occasion scene as Cody Rhodes hunts down Randy Orton and something can occur between Kevin Owens and WWE Undisputed Males’s Champion CM Punk! All that and each United States Championships are being defended as Tiffany Stratton faces Jacy Jayne and Baron Corbin goes toe-to-toe with Carmelo Hayes! Prepare with our preview here!
Come proper again right here again on the regular begin time of 8 pm ET. That’s when the SmackDown stay weblog will kick off within the house beneath as soon as the present begins on USA.
WWE SmackDown RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR AUG. 14
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The present opens with a flyby of the sector after which into our regular montage of expertise arriving on the area.
Basic supervisor Nick Aldis is within the ring and will get on the mic.
He says as many people know, Chelsea Inexperienced suffered a damaged orbital bone final week and after talking with medical he’s reached a choice on what to do and he invitations our WWE Ladies’s Champion to the ring.
She makes her entrance with, understandably, a grody black eye.
Aldis says there’s no simple technique to say this, he is aware of how laborious she’s labored and the way a lot the title means to her, however he spoke to medical and he can’t let her in good conscience compete with a damaged eye socket. Inexperienced begs him, saying she’ll do no matter it takes and it’s already therapeutic up.
Nick says he hates this a part of his job, however it’s his job, and he’s so sorry, however he wants her to relinquish the WWE Ladies’s Championship. “No!” chants go up and Chelsea says she knew it was too good to be true and she or he’s been ready for the opposite shoe to drop, as a result of each time one thing good and magical occurs to her on this enterprise, it’s adopted by one thing devastating, and that’s simply her story, isn’t it?
Chelsea Inexperienced, the comedian reduction, the proper opponent for the opposite ladies, by no means the champion, by no means QB1. “You deserve it!” chants go up and she or he talks about what she’s sacrificed to be right here, lacking weddings and funerals, breaking bones, leaving all her blood, sweat, and tears within the ring. She places her face by way of muffins and pies, places her physique in dumpsters, has your complete world snicker in her face, however each night time she tells herself it’s value it as a result of this second would come.
And now right here we’re, she made it, and Aldis ought to perceive that, particularly after SummerSlam. He says that’s not the identical, she says it’s precisely the identical, your complete world noticed him within the ring together with his household, after which she went on the market and proved it doesn’t matter what they assume, it issues what we expect!
Nick was a champion, his spouse was a champion, and till somebody takes this off of her, it’s hers. She shoves the title in his chest and says she thought he of all individuals would perceive as she leaves the ring.
Aldis tells her to attend and says as Nick Aldis the GM he thinks he’s doing the correct factor, however as Nick Aldis the person, he doesn’t give a rattling what medical says! Chelsea comes again to the ring and Nick says she has thirty days to get cleared, get a face masks, do no matter she has to do to defend the title, however till somebody takes it from her, it’s hers!
She hugs Nick and takes the titl again and raises it excessive!
He will get on the mic within the aisle and calls Chelsea one other sob story and says he desires to place consideration on necessary issues right here. He says he is aware of Hunter has Nick on a brief leash and asks why he pulled that stunt on him at SummerSlam. Aldis says now isn’t the time or place and he’ll be blissful to debate it in his workplace later, like males, and proper now it’s in regards to the Ladies’s Championship.
GUNTHER mocks Chelsea as simply climbing a ladder after which bumping right into a doorframe whereas he did double obligation each nights of SummerSlam and made a person faucet out in entrance of his household. He turns again to Aldis and asks why he added Kevin Owens to his match. Nick says he didn’t do it that means, he added GUNTHER to Kevin Owens’ match.
They’ve been negotiating KO’s return for months, it was GUNTHER who was a last-minute addition to the match, and he didn’t do the job, did he? Inexperienced laughts at him and the Ring Basic tells her to close up. She tells him to go puff his chest at a girl, have his mood tantrum, stroke that fragile little male ego, that’s all you have got left after SummerSlam, isn’t it?
She solely sees one champion on this ring, herself.
Matt Cardona rushes to the ring and slides in and will get between Inexperienced and GUNTHER!
The Ring Basic mocks him for coming from catering to the rescue, and there’s nothing he can do to him anyway. He might name his lady each slur on the planet proper now and there’s nothing Cardona will do to him. Chelsea asks Matt to again down and GUNTHER calls him a canine listening to his grasp and THAT’s sufficient for Cardona to interrupt free and assault the Ring Basic!
Referees swarm to maintain them aside and we go to interrupt.
Again from industrial, match joined in progress, and GUNTHER is in management. Cardona manages to entice him within the nook for some punches however a chop cuts him down! Laying chops in, Matt geese on, returns elbows within the nook, choking the Ring Basic with a knee! GUNTHER bails to keep away from the Broski Boot however a wrecking ball dropkick connects!
GUNTHER chops him in opposition to the timekeeper’s barricade, again suplex into the barricade… POWERBOMB INTO THE ANNOUNCE DESK! POWERBOMB INTO THE APRON! Chelsea Inexperienced shouting on the Ring Basic from ringside as he climbs again in, blissful to take referee Dan Engler’s ten rely. Inexperienced shouting at Cardona to rise up, he beats the rely!
Ripcord lariat from GUNTHER, mocking Chelsea, she says he wouldn’t know what love is that if it bit him and he hits a again suplex! Taking his time, toying with Matt, screwing with Inexperienced, she will get up on the apron, Engler talks her down and Cardona kicks GUNTHER low to take benefit, Tough Ryder… SO CLOSE!
One other Tough Ryder countered right into a powerbomb, the Ring Basic picks him again up, one other powerbomb after which he turns Matt over right into a Boston Crab… IT’S OVER!
GUNTHER wins by submission with a Boston Crab.
Publish-match, Lash Legend and Nia Jax come to the stage.
Jax will get on the mic and says not even per week into her title reign and Chelsea’s injured? Pathetic. Now she’s obtained a ticking clock and since she desires to be a combating champion, why waste time? Nia says she obtained screwed out of SummerSlam, and you realize what she desires? The WWE Ladies’s Championship.
They get within the ring and Jax says if she doesn’t get what she desires, nicely she has a historical past of breaking faces round here–
TIFFANY STRATTON MAKES THE SAVE! Throwing wild elbows on each Forces, however Legend will get her within the bear hug and That Rattling Numbers Recreation wins out. Nia drops a leg on her as referees seem to attempt to calm issues down and the Irresistible Forces again down and go away.
We get a recap of Alexa Bliss bringing Tatum Paxley to SmackDown assist Charlotte Aptitude to beat Jade Cargill final week.
Charlotte Aptitude and Alexa Bliss are strolling and hugging backstage.
Aptitude thanks Bliss for serving to her out final week, Alexa provides Tatum Paxley the credit score and thanks Charlotte for being okay together with her. Aptitude says it was a one-time factor, however Bliss says she higher be okay going ahead as a result of Paxley reminds her of her and Charlotte loves her, proper? And futher, Aptitude higher be good in regards to the reward that Tatum has for them.
A door opens and Tatum Paxley is standing in a… shrine… stuffed with candles and photos of Charlotte. Bliss climbs in and awkwardly says this brings her again, and Aptitude climbs in much more awkwardly because the door shuts.
Again from industrial, we get a recap of the Cody Rhodes/Randy Orton section from final week.
Backstage, Cody Rhodes meets with Nick Aldis and asks to get the match on paper now.
Aldis says he hasn’t seen Randy Orton however Saturday Sunday Evening’s Fundamental Occasion is developing, how about having the match then? Rhodes says each time and wherever is ok for him, simply get it achieved.
Sami Zayn rolls up, bitter that each one Cody has to do is ask and mountains are moved, but when he desires his rematch he has to earn it in a #1 contender’s match, which turns into a three-way, which turns into a four-way, which he misplaced, and wrestled with a damaged hand. Rhodes says Sami used to have the ability to come as much as him and filibuster him like this perhaps due to his friendship however he doesn’t must put up with this for anyone anymore.
So, Sami, along with your carpal tunnel gout fist, you wanna do one thing about, let’s do one thing about it. Zayn runs off an inventory of everyone else that couldn’t beat Cody however says he did, clear, in the course of the ring, for the title. Rhodes desires a match tonight, Sami says he WOULD decide an evening he was damage and might’t, and Cody walks off.
Nick asks “can’t” or “gained’t” and gives to sweeten the pot– if Sami wrestles Cody tonight, and beats him, he’ll get a title match in opposition to the winner of CM Punk vs. Kevin Owens. He leaves Zayn sputtering to consider it.
Carmelo Hayes makes his entrance forward of our subsequent match and we go to interrupt.
Again from industrial, Baron Corbin makes his entrance using in on his motorbike like a bootleg Rob Halford.
Baron Corbin (c) vs. Carmelo Hayes (WWE Males’s United States Championship)
Hayes dives on Corbin earlier than he will get within the ring! Baron scrambles inside and we get a bell! Dropkick from Carmelo, proper arms within the nook, Corbin throws him into the following nook, Hayes geese a shot and lays chops in! Mounted punches comply with, Baron shoves him away, enzuigiri from Melo says up a springboard corkscrew uppercut for a nearfall!
Up prime, Corbin catches Hayes in a goozle, float over, low-bridge sends the champion to the ground! Kicks within the ropes, Fade Away turns into extra of a seated senton than a leg drop however Melo is fired up all the identical! Codebreaker countered right into a powerbomb, roll by way of and Baron boots him to the ground!
Out after Hayes, throwing him over the timekeeper’s barricade, again inside and Corbin is blissful to take the countout as we go to interrupt!
Again from industrial, Corbin is in management however Hayes manages to struggle free with some elbows. Whip blocked, large lariat from Baron! Scooping Carmelo up on his shoulder, however he slips out, sidestep the cost, kick the knee, kick the dome, springboard again elbow, cowl for 2! Frog splash… CORBIN KICKS OUT!
Codebreaker countered once more, large boot sends Hayes ass over teakettle, powerbomb countered to a rolling sundown flip… NOPE! Knee to the face will get Deep Six… MELO KICKS OUT! Float over, Codebreaker connects this time, one other Codebreaker, up prime however Baron sends him crashing to the ground!
Again inside, short-arm…
Baron Corbin wins by pinfall with the short-arm Finish of Days.
Publish-match, Trick Williams makes his entrance… AND DISTRACTS CORBIN SO LIL YACHTY CAN ATTACK HIM FROM BEHIND WITH THE TRICK STICK!
Baron shrugs it off and takes it and swings it, Yachty bails and Trick slides in and hits Trick Shot to ship Corbin packing!
Chelsea Inexperienced checks on Tiffany Stratton backstage and gives her gratitude.
Stratton says she’s superb for her match later and Inexperienced asks if she’s positive, which Tiffy says she is and we go to interrupt.
Again from industrial, Kevin Owens makes his entrance and will get on the mic, however earlier than he can say anything–
He says he is aware of Owens is plenty of issues however one among them isn’t a coward, so he figured no matter he needed to say tonight, he ought to say it to his face. However Punk doesn’t give him an opportunity to begin, launching into his “nice to be alive on a Friday night time” schtick. After a beat CM asks what he’s ready for and Kev lastly begins.
It’s humorous, Punk is speaking about saying issues to faces when final week Punk was on the stage together with his again turned when he known as him a fats slob, or one thing related. CM asks if he actually thinks he wouldn’t say that to his face, and Owens says individuals don’t notice their story really begins twenty years in the past.
Punk tells him to go forward and smarten ‘em up, and Owens says twenty years in the past they wrestled for a similar unbiased promotion and CM was a giant prime man and KO was simply attempting to make a reputation for himself. And on that night time, in all of the methods he might have achieved, Punk selected to berate him and scream at him in a locker room stuffed with his friends.
CM asks if that’s what he’s been holding on to for twenty years and Kev says that’s not all of it, it’s additionally the particular person he’s been, the issues he’s stated, the way in which he’s handled good pals of his… Punk asks him to be extra particular, and Owens says he may assume he’s solely speaking about three of them however all of his pals hate him.
Punk says being hated by losers is the value he pays to not be a loser himself, and KO says that’s a part of why he despises him. He sees a locker room stuffed with folks that look as much as him, he’s made his amends and every little thing’s okay, there’s just one man left who doesn’t like him and that’s Owens, and he’ll by no means like him.
Every thing CM does is performative, he’s a phony, and the one cause he got here again and made every little thing proper is as a result of he had no selection, as a result of the type of particular person he’s lead him to screw issues up in all places else he went, and he doesn’t respect individuals like Punk. However within the meantime he’s gained championships, he obtained to most important occasion WrestleMania in opposition to Steve Austin!
Punk congratulates him and says he was blissful for him them and he’s blissful for him now however does he actually imagine he would have been afforded these alternatives if he was nonetheless right here? Owens tells him to face right here and say why he thinks he wouldn’t have gotten these alternatives, what’s it, he’s a fats indie slob, a fan on the opposite aspect of the guardrail? Simply say it!
CM asks if he thinks that’s what he thinks or is that what he thinks about himself? However he’s right here, he’s champion, he’s obtained a locker room full of men who need to be world champion, he calls out Oba Femi and he will get endometriosis as a substitute. He seems to be at Kevin Owens and he sees plenty of issues, and if he desires to take heed to him disparage him, it might make mild of all the good issues he’s achieved in his profession.
He seems to be at Owens and sees a tricky man, he sees a man who can communicate two languages, and that makes him smarter than him, however he sees a man who avoids the work and that makes him silly. He sees wasted potential, he’s a tricky man… however he’s a bum. KO avoids the laborious work, says Punk is a shapeshifter when the phrase he ought to use is advanced.
Punk adapts, he overcomes, he tries to be 1% higher day-after-day and perhaps if he did half that, Kevin would have prevented the Invoice Goldberg spear that ended his final title reign. Owens says he’s spent his entire profession attempting to be not like Punk and when he seems to be at CM he sees a man who goes house and hates himself, however he’s the identical particular person Punk screamed at twenty years in the past.
That fats indie loser is in the identical ring as him and he’s dealing with him for the WWE Championship subsequent week, and being like him wouldn’t assist, as a result of in spite of everything, Punk couldn’t keep away from that Roman Reigns spear at WrestleMania.
CM says he seems to be at KO and sees himself from twenty years in the past, cussed, loud, at all times thinks he’s the neatest man within the ring, however he nonetheless sees the identical man he noticed twenty years in the past. Owens asks if that bothers him, that he by no means cared what he thought, by no means sought out his recommendation or steerage. He’s regretted for twenty years not punching him within the mouth in that locker room.
Punk tells him there’s nothing between them however air and alternative and gives his jaw up. Owens says he didn’t do it then as a result of he knew CM would have ruined his profession and that might have been it, and he’s not doing it now as a result of subsequent week in Toronto he doesn’t simply get to punch him within the face, he will get to beat his bitch ass for the WWE title after he does it.
CM tells him twenty years in the past he was a greenhorn who thought he might communicate disrespectfully and he’s been crying in regards to the penalties for twenty years. He desires to attend per week, that’s superb with him. He by no means regarded as much as him? That’s additionally superb, as a result of he’s gonna subsequent week after Punk chokes his ass out.
Finn Balor is chatting with Nick Aldis backstage sporting a jaunty neckerchief.
Balor says he took the week off to recover from it however now he understands why Aldis added GUNTHER and Kevin Owens to the match final week.
GUNTHER rolls up and complains about being pressured to wrestle avenue garments and he desires to type out the SummerSlam downside. Aldis tells him he’s interrupting one other dialog, and the Ring Basic asks with who. Nick says Finn Balor, and GUNTHER makes a present of performing like he can’t see him however oh wait there’s the shadow of Finn Balor.
Balor says he was about to inform Nick he’ll do no matter it takes to earn one other title shot, so if he has to beat GUNTHER’s ass to do it, nicely he’ll present him who the actual Finn Balor is.
Damian Priest & R-Fact make their entrance forward of our subsequent match and ship us to interrupt.
Again from industrial, Conflict Raiders are already within the ring and the Sons of Haku, as soon as once more accompanied by Haku, make their entrance to get us going.
Damian Priest & Ron “the Fact” Killings (c) vs. Sons of Haku (Tama & Talla Tonga) vs. Conflict Raiders (Erik & Ivar) (WWE Males’s Tag Staff Championship)
Chaotic brawling to begin, the tag champs are laid out, the opposite two groups brawl with one another, Tama to the ground, the Vikings clobber him with double elbows after which brawl on the ground, Priest and Killings lock arms and Damian takes all 4 of ‘em out with a diving crossbody to the ground and sends us to interrupt!
Again from industrial, Tama working Fact over, Killings passes him to the ground, tag to Priest! Flash kick to Ivar, proper arms to Erik, again elbow to Warbeard, leaping kick after which charging elbows on each Vikings! Tag champs rise up prime with Ivar however Tonga cuts them off and double chokeslams just for Warbeard to take him out with a cannonball off the highest!
Erik brawling with the Tongan, whip throughout, duck a lariat, pop-up powerslam… NO DEAL! Talla in throwing lariats at his fellow challengers, spinning powerslam on Ron and he’s fired up! Haku cheering him from ringside, he turns to face Ivar and Damian they usually crew as much as beat the large down!
Double suplex on Talla and Fact places him within the STF! Tonga will get to his knees to dam, match breaking down, Erik with the half nelson to sleep, Priest saves his buddy by taking Conflict Raiders out, discus roundhouses to Erik on the ground! Damian fired up… WAR RAIDERS ASSISTED POWERSLAM THROUGH THE TIMEKEEPER’S BARRICADE!
Tama shoves Erik over the announce desk, again inside, Killings with a shoulder block, shoulder block, fall-forward Blue Thunder Driver, “You may’t see me!” and the 5 Knuckle Shuffle lands true! Fireman’s carry, Tama slips out and rakes his eyes and throws him into Erik to maintain him from coming again in!
Suplexing him into Talla’s grip…
The Sons of Haku win by pinfall with Brother’s Keeper on Ron “the Fact” Killings, changing into your new WWE Males’s Tag Staff Champions.
Publish-match, Haku and his sons have fun within the ring.
Deadly Affect are proven strolling backstage to ship us to interrupt.
Again from industrial, Tiffany Stratton makes her entrance to get us going.
Jacy Jayne vs. Tiffany Stratton (c) (WWE Ladies’s United States Championship)
Jayne scorching out the gates, Stratton manages to roll away from a senton, drop toehold places her on the second, working hip assault, basement dropkick, cowl for 2! Lainey Reid runs interference and Jacy takes the chance to hit a lungblower and ship us to interrupt!
Again from industrial, Chelsea Inexperienced is right here to verify on her pal Tiffy! Off the ropes, each ladies go for a similar factor and find yourself down and out! Stratton to her toes first, blocking punches and throwing her personal again, lariat connects, one other one, catch a kick, again elbow, off the ropes, cartwheel into the Alabama Slam and she or he goes up prime for the senton atomico… NO GOOD!
Tiffany counters a kick right into a pin for 2, handspring Stunner connects, fireman’s carry, Finlay Roll, double leap moonsault… THE KNEES ARE UP BUT STRATTON KICKS OUT OF THE COVER! Fireman’s carry, Fallon Henley runs interference and Chelsea Inexperienced neutralizes her! Lainey Reid joins Fallon in circling Chelsea… TIFFANY OFF THE TOP WITH A PLANCHA TO WIPE THEM OUT!
Again inside, Jacy is prepared…
Jacy Jayne wins by pinfall with the rolling elbow, changing into your new WWE Ladies’s United States Champion.
Publish-match, Inexperienced seems to be appropriately surprised and reticent.
Jade Cargill and her Baddies are interviewed backstage.
They discuss how they’re gonna give Tatum Paxley a “correct welcome” to their present.
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes makes his entrance forward of our most important occasion, sending us to interrupt.
Again from industrial, Sami Zayn makes his entrance to get us going…
…AND RANDY ORTON ATTACKS RHODES FROM BEHIND BEFORE ZAYN CAN EVEN GET AS FAR AS THE RAMP!
He lays Rhodes out with the hanging DDT! However Cody blocks the RKO! Cross Rhodes countered, Randy throws Rhodes out of the ring and smashes his face into the apron on the ground! ORTON SMASHES CODY’S FACE WITH THE STEEL STEPS!
We see referee Charles Robinson arguing with Sami Zayn on the ramp as if Robinson might probably have achieved something about any of this. Randy leans the metal steps in opposition to the announce desk however when he goes within the crowd Cody hits him with anyone’s drink! Brawling deeper into the gang, Rhodes hits him with a trash can stuffed with rubbish!
Ever deeper into the gang after which again out to ringside, Orton brutally shoves a crew member after which places Rhodes up on the desk! Basic supervisor Nick Aldis is right here with highway brokers Jason Jordan and Shawn Daivari and referees however they’re helpless to cease the Viper as he lays Cody so his toes are on the desk and his physique and head are within the crevice of the metal steps!
Randy will get a chair and climbs up… AND CODY KICKS HIM LOW TO SAVE HIMSELF! Rhodes wallops him throughout the again with the metal chair after which units him up the identical means Orton had him arrange, however this time the highway brokers are in a position to intervene, take the chair away, and pull Cody away from the fray.
Rhodes rushes again over… BUT WE’RE OUTTA TIME, BABY!
That’s the present, people.
