WWE SmackDown is reside tonight (Aug. 21, 2026) from the Scotiabank Area in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and we’re carrying ahead on the street to Saturday Sunday Night time’s Primary Occasion.
Marketed for tonight: CM Punk defends the WWE Undisputed Males’s Championship towards Kevin Owens!
Plus, Blake Monroe makes her important roster in-ring debut reverse Giulia, Damian Priest and Ron Killings get their tag title rematch towards the Sons of Haku, and why these wacky youngsters Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton would possibly rise up to something! 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 reside weblog will kick off within the area under as soon as the present begins on USA.
WWE SmackDown RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR AUG. 21
And when the night time has fallen, it falls laborious after which all of it begins. When she begins her calling, I really feel my darkness rising from inside. After everybody goes house and I’m left right here by myself, I’m right here to liveblog this right here professional wrestling present for you, of us.
The present opens with the same old montage of expertise arriving on the area.
A video bundle recapping Sami Zayn/Cody Rhodes/Randy Orton stuff from final week follows.
Backstage tonight, Sami Zayn is complaining to basic supervisor Nick Aldis about how he doesn’t get justice and when does he get his rematch for his WWE Championship. Aldis needs to say go earn it however he throws Finn Balor, GUNTHER, and Kevin Owens in his means, after which final week he gave him one other match to earn it regardless of his damaged hand, he took it, put his boots on, and nonetheless doesn’t get his match as a result of Randy Orton will get concerned?
Zayn rants about Orton till Nick will get his consideration and Sami turns to see Randy is standing there. Orton tells him to maintain speaking, he needs to see the place it’s going–
Cody Rhodes’ voice rings out from a display screen close by. He’s within the ring and he needs Orton to return combat him. Aldis tells Randy to remain right here and leaves to deal with the state of affairs, which results in Sami complaining extra and naturally, Orton strolling after Nick.
Aldis tells Cody this isn’t occurring, final week was a catastrophe however he has his match at Saturday Sunday Night time’s Primary Occasion–
He says they obtained a time and a spot and he’s gonna whip Cody’s ass in entrance of his household who little question can be sitting within the entrance row. He doesn’t must do it now, he’s obtained his date in two weeks. Rhodes tries to goad him into preventing now however Aldis says they’re not gonna do it and he’s sick of followers and officers being put in peril and he’s sick and uninterested in being disrespected himself, personally.
At SNME they will tear one another aside, and if both of them lays a finger on the opposite earlier than then, mark his phrases, they’ll by no means get one other shot on the WWE Championship, and you’ll take that to the financial institution. He says he’s useless severe and asks in the event that they need to screw up his present or do they need one other title shot?
Orton says there’s no means in hell he’s gonna get within the ring and jeopardize his fifteenth world championship, you may name him Mr. Skilled. Randy turns to Cody and says he heard him say one thing about ending what they began final week and he was able to smash Orton’s head like a grape when the present went off the air and he didn’t do it as a result of he is aware of Rhodes can’t reside with himself if he did it.
However Randy swung the chair as a result of he has no such compunctions, he is aware of methods to go there and get issues achieved, methods to be the worst model of himself, however Cody is and at all times can be a great man, he’s not the American Nightmare, he’s the American Daydream. Two weeks in the past Rhodes requested who’s gonna kill the legend of Randy Orton and Cody didn’t reply the query as a result of he is aware of it’s not going to be himself.
Rhodes tells Orton he’s working on a really harmful assumption and says he’s nonetheless sporting make-up to cowl the place Randy kicked him within the head at WrestleMania and he’s realized from his heroes, his pals, his enemies, and Orton himself. Say he goes and wins #15, #16, beats each file, is the best of all time, and he’ll nonetheless come again to Cody as a result of QB1 is the one who kills the Legend Killer, and that’s not a prediction, it’s a spoiler.
The Sons of Haku are strolling backstage and Tama Tonga cuts a promo on the digital camera, saying he doesn’t see anybody speaking trash now. Talla Tonga provides that the tag titles belong to them and so they’re prepared for anybody to step up and problem them. Tama says if Damian Priest and Ron Killings need the titles, they should step up.
Haku rolls up and says some stuff in Tongan to them and says now could be the time to point out them who the motherfuckin’ Tongans are right here!
Damian Priest and Ron “the Reality” Killings make their entrance forward of our subsequent match, sending us to interrupt.
Again from business, the Sons of Haku make their entrance to get us going.
Damian Priest & Ron “the Reality” Killings vs. MFTs (Talla & Tama Tonga) (c) (WWE Males’s Tag Staff Championship)
Talla taking Killings out on the bell, Tama brawling with Priest, a knee cuts the challenger off, whip reversed, entrance kick, Damian with an elbow off the rebound! Bieling Tonga into the nook, lighting him up with punches whereas Struggle Raiders watch from the locker room. Tama with a again elbow however he runs proper right into a boot!
Ron tags in, Stinger splash, low-bridge sends Talla to the ground, stereo shoulder blocks preserve him there, then a double clothesline sends Tama to the ground! Priest needs Reality to dive and he obliges with a plancha and poses on the barricade! Damian goes and wallops Talla to maintain him down, Killings throws Tama in and correctly will get away from Haku ASAP.
Proper fingers, what’s up, whip reversed right into a Sizzling Shot from Tama! Falling lariat, rolling Ron over for grounded punches, Tonga attracts him up and throws him to the ground for Talla to take care of as we go to interrupt!
Again from business, Priest doing his finest to combat the Tongans off two-on-one, diving lariat… NO DEAL! Once more we see Struggle Raiders watching, and Damian takes the straps down! Circling, goozle on Talla, the large Tongan returns the goozle, breaks Priest’s grip however the challenger breaks unfastened with again elbows! Massive lariat wipes Damian out, Talla places boots to him within the nook!
Priest sidesteps a cost, Reality is nice for a tag, Tama is available in and cuts Damian off however he lands a revolution kick and the trail is evident… TAG MADE! Killings in scorching, off the ropes, shoulder block, shoulder block, fall-forward Blue Thunder Driver, “You’ll be able to’t see me!” and the 5 Knuckle Shuffle connects! Fireman’s carry… ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT BUT TALLA BREAKS IT UP!
Damian is available in to neutralize the large man, clotheslining him over the ropes and to the ground! Priest goes out after him, double axhandle off the metal steps proper in entrance of Haku! Up on the apron, Tama knocks him off, Talla hooks him… CHOKESLAM INTO THE APRON! RON ROLLS TAMA UP BUT HE KICKS OUT AT THE LAST FRACTION OF A SECOND!
Strike rush from Reality, Tama floats over, rolling neckbreaker, tag to Talla, lining him up…
MFTs win by pinfall with Crimson Cross on Ron “the Reality” Killings, retaining the WWE Males’s Tag Staff Championship.
Put up-match, Priest stands patiently within the ring as Reality will get himself collectively sufficient for him to assist him up and provides him a hug and an “it’s okay bud” shoulder pat.
CM Punk is interviewed backstage.
He says his recreation plan is unchanged, and he thrives in hostile territories. Kevin Owens has these one-sided beefs, these ghosts from twenty years in the past and he’s pleased with not altering, however Punk is proud he has modified, gotten higher. However Owens remains to be the identical man and to return again after seventeen months and have your second match–
He provides CM honest warning that after he’s achieved whooping Cody Rhodes’ ass in his own residence city, he’ll be coming for #15.
Punk tells him he’s wanting ahead to it and we go to interrupt.
Again from business we get a recap of Nick Aldis agreeing to let Chelsea Inexperienced have her full thirty days to get cleared and defend her WWE Ladies’s Championship.
Chelsea Inexperienced is ready exterior the coach’s room for Tiffany Stratton.
Stratton comes out and Inexperienced shouts “Damage twins!” and grabs her in a painful means. She thanks Tiffany and says she has a plan to make it as much as her however Stratton tells her to not fear about it and simply concentrate on preserving her title.
Paige catches their consideration and offers Chelsea a pep speak and says she thinks Inexperienced is gonna be champion for an extended, very long time.
Deadly Affect roll as much as speak trash about how they’re gonna take the title from Chelsea.
Paige joins again in and says she misses having gold round her waist already and perhaps she’ll come for Jacy Jayne’s United States Championship. Jayne scoffs and says they will preserve placing extra tape round their waists and the Fatals will put extra gold round theirs.
Blake Monroe is sporting a dressing robe over her ring gear, shuffling via a rack of garments when an interview rolls up.
Monroe is mad that she’s not preventing for the WWE Championship in her first match however now she’s caught right here shuffling via a rack of garments looking for one thing to put on to combat Giulia. The interviewer tells her she thinks Blake will look nice in something she picks and Monroe removes the dressing robe to completely reveal her gear and says she’s proper and walks off to ship us to interrupt.
Again from business, Giulia makes her entrance… AND BLAKE MONROE BLINDSIDES HER AND BEATS HER DOWN AT THE BASE OF THE RAMP!
Smashing her face into the apron, throwing her into the metal steps, taking issues inside and referee Darryl Sharma tries and fails to take management. Headbutt and a knee from Monroe wipes the Lovely Insanity out earlier than she hits a Neutralizer.
Sharma waves Blake off and checks on Giulia, no match.
Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Aptitude are chatting backstage when Tatum Paxley rolls up and asks who Mary is and if she’s meant to convey her personal blood or what…?
Jade Cargill and her Baddies roll up and name Charlotte pathetic for needing “this little freakshow” to assist her out. Paxley asks in the event that they’re right here to go to brunch and which certainly one of them is Mary as a result of she wants her blood? Aptitude steps as much as inform them that Tatum is awkward and doesn’t perceive private area however she’s together with her and Alexa so again off.
The Baddies problem Tatum to a match for subsequent week after which Paxley hugs Aptitude all enthusiastic about her first match.
Again from business, Trick Williams makes his entrance, accompanied by Lil Yachty.
Trick will get on the mic and says Baron Corbin can’t beat him with out taking a shortcut or dishonest and since he walks round wanting like cue ball, how ‘bout come out right here and eat a Trick Shot so he can get his title again, let’s discuss it.
Enter Baron Corbin, once more driving to the stage on a bike like if Rob Halford was straight and boring.
He will get within the ring, mic in hand, and Lil Yachty bails when he advances.
Williams says he’s the one Corbin needs, Mr. Trick Williams, and the way about cease dodging him and provides the folks what they need, Baron vs. Trick, proper right here in Toronto, for the championship, wherever it’s. Corbin says the title is getting a reasonably little haircut proper now and Williams isn’t getting one other shot at it.
Trick obtained a title match and he misplaced, they’d a rematch and he misplaced once more, so why would Baron give him a shot? He’s obtained nothing to supply and Corbin beats him each time they get within the ring, so get it via your thick cranium, you’re not getting one other shot, it’s achieved and over with.
Yachty seems behind Corbin and wails on him with the Trick Stick! Williams joins in and so they ship Baron to the ground! Corbin will get again on the mic and says tremendous, that is how he needs to do it, Saturday Sunday Night time’s Primary Occasion, as a result of Toronto isn’t price it. However first, he needs Yachty, in his house city, 5 minutes within the ring.
If Yachty lives, Trick will get his title shot. If Baron beats him, they’re achieved, and so they’re achieved for good. He tells Yachty to have a look at him and put his cash the place his mouth is and asks him what he says. The gang needs it, Lil Yachty is skeptical and places his head in his fingers briefly… BUT HE TELLS CORBIN HE’S ON!
Baron says it’ll be the longest 5 minutes of Yachty’s life.
Kevin Owens is interviewed backstage.
He says it’s nice to have a title match in Canada however instantly appears distracted–
He says he was glad to see Owens again, however he would have cherished a heads-up earlier than having his match interrupted. Kev says he sees his level, however they’re about to be interrupted again–
He says tonight’s the night time and Kevin Owens has to step up or face dropping in entrance of all his family and friends, however don’t fear about Finn Balor, he’s a shadow of his former self and if KO wins, he’ll want to fret about GUNTHER. The Ring Normal leaves.
Owens asks if he’s mad or that’s simply his accent, Finn confirms it’s his accent and offers Kev a pep speak, telling him he can beat Punk and when he does, Balor can be ready on the opposite aspect to problem him for the title.
Tiffany Stratton makes her entrance forward of our subsequent match, sending us to interrupt.
Again from business, the Irresistible Forces make their entrance to get us going.
Lash Legend vs. Tiffany Stratton
Stratton with dropkicks out the gates, handspring again elbow, off the ropes, Legend cuts her off with an uppercut and an enormous knee to the ribs! Drawing her up, extra knee lifts, cowl for 2! Lash will get her up within the bear hug! I can hardly bear it! Stampeding Tiffany into the nook, Stratton slips out, Legend blocks a sundown flip!
Tiffany hangs her up within the ropes, lungblower sends Lash to the ground, off the ropes, Stratton dives however Legend catches her and places her into the ringpost earlier than slamming her into the apron to ship us to interrupt!
Again from business, vertical suplex from Legend, kip-up, off the ropes, Stratton rolls away from an elbow drop! Sidestep the cost, lariats, duck below, cartwheel Alabama Slam blocked, powerbomb countered, Tiffany lands a Stunner and goes up prime! No one house on the senton atomico, Stratton sidesteps a boot, crucifix driver… STILL NO!
Double bounce, Lash cuts her off, again to again… LASH EXTENSION! IT’S OVER!
Lash Legend wins by pinfall with the Lash Extension.
Put up-match, Jax drops a leg on Stratton for good measure and he or she and Lash lay Tiffany out…
CHELSEA GREEN MAKES THE SAVE, KENDO STICK IN HAND!
She runs the Irresistible Forces off and checks on her pal Stratton.
We get a recap of Kevin Owens’ return and feud with CM Punk and we go to interrupt.
Again from business, we get a reminder that Uncooked on Monday has a particular begin time of 6pm.
We get a Shinsuke Nakamura promo the place his companion is revealed as Hiromu Takahashi! Now going by Kyoki, he talks up his resume and Nakamura says he doesn’t worry chaos, he enjoys it. Kyoki says he needs extra gold, extra insanity, extra, extra, extra! Shinsuke says when sturdy model and insanity collide, there’ll be an explosion, and the clock is ticking.
There’s no signal of Daryl, sadly.
Kevin Owens makes his entrance forward of our important occasion.
CM Punk, in fact, follows in his personal time, sporting a hockey masks emblazoned together with his graphics.
CM Punk (c) vs. Kevin Owens (WWE Undisputed Males’s Championship)
Owens proper on him with windmill punches, kick, extra punches within the nook, whip reversed, Kev explodes out of the nook with a lariat and clotheslines Punk to the ground! Out after him, CM rolls proper again in and places boots to him towards the ropes! Again out to the ground, KO hammering punches towards the apron and he goes and clears the announce desk!
Punk takes benefit of that and cuts him off and places the duvet again on the announce desk earlier than shaking Joe Tessitore’s hand and returning to the ring! Owens catches a kick, kicks him again excessive however authorized, journeys him up, senton, entrance kick, Punk counters the Stunner with a neckbreaker and we go to interrupt!
Again from business, Punk in management however Owens will get unfastened, massive proper fingers, punches and chops, vicious lariat and each males are down and out! Again on their toes, buying and selling punches, Kev taking management, beating CM down within the ropes, placing boots to him and referee Dan Engler has to drag him off to warn him!
Punk rolls to the ground, KO out after him, massive lariat on the ground! Again inside, placing CM within the nook, crotch chop, cannonball… SO CLOSE! Again out to the ground, a kick units Punk up on the announce desk, Owens off the barricade… SPLASH THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE DESK! Again inside, off the highest with the senton atomico… PUNK KICKS OUT!
Off the ropes, CM floats over the pop-up powerbomb, hits the Alberto Del Rio Cash within the Financial institution Memorial Flash Kick… OWENS WILL NOT STAY DOWN! Rising knee, short-arm lariat, Punk goes up prime, crotch chop… DIVING ELBOW DROP GETS TWO AND HE GOES RIGHT INTO THE ANACONDA VISE AFTER THE KICKOUT!
Swinging neckbreaker, drawing KO out, Kev takes an enormous swing however Punk blocks and clobbers him to the mat with axhandles! Fireman’s carry, Owens counters the Go to Sleep… AND PUTS CM PUNK IN THE SHARPSHOOTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING! Engler proper in there to test on Punk, crawling, determined… AND HE GETS THE ROPES AND FORCES THE BREAK!
Duck a kick, Punk shoves him away and referee Dan Engler will get sandwiched within the nook! Owens geese a shot and CM full-force hits Engler and sends him crashing to the ground this time! KO hits the Stunner, cowl… NO REFEREE! Punk hits the Go to Sleep this time however nonetheless there’s no referee and the group will get to a couple of twelve earlier than CM will get up!
Desultory punches to Kev’s face, Punk goes out to the ground to test on Dan Engler… SAMI ZAYN IS HERE AND HE JUMPS THE BARRICADE AND THROWS CM PUNK INTO THE RINGPOST! Zayn throws Punk within the ring, kick to the intestine, one other Stunner! Sami throws Engler again in… AND CM PUNK FINDS THE WILL TO KICK OUT AT THE LAST FRACTION OF A SECOND!
Zayn grabs the title and slides it within the ring and offers Kev a pep speak! Owens picks the belt up and waits for Punk to rise up, however Sami can’t be affected person and will get on the apron to inform him to do it! Kevin says not this time, not like this… AND ZAYN CLOCKS HIS BEST FRIEND WITH THE TITLE BELT! PUNK HITS THE GO TO SLEEP! ENGLER IS AWAKE! IT’S OVER!
CM Punk wins by pinfall with the Go to Sleep, retaining the WWE Undisputed Males’s Championship.
We get a recap of the match.
CM Punk takes a bow for Toronto whereas Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn sit with their feelings on the ground.
Zayn will get up, belt in hand… AND SLIDES IN THE RING AND LAYS PUNK OUT WITH A BELT SHOT!
Owens will get within the ring… AND SAMI NAILS HIM WITH THE BELT, TOO!
Punk again on his knees and swaying within the breeze… ZAYN CLOBBERS HIM WITH THE BELT AGAIN! Sami yells at him about stealing the title from him and stands tall shaking the belt round and ranting.
Zayn seems to be over at KO with an expression someplace between unhappiness and contempt on his face.
That’s the present, of us.
