WWE Friday Night SmackDown comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (Dec. 27, 2024) with a live show emanating from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, featuring all the continued fallout from the Saturday Night’s Main Event show that took place a couple weekends ago in Long Island.
Advertised for tonight: General Manager Nick Aldis will address Kevin Owens’ attack on WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, including his theft of the winged eagle championship title, presumably.
Also set for the show is Chelsea Green holding a celebration for the women’s United States championship, Bianca Belair & Naomi & Bayley taking on Nia Jax & Tiffany Stratton & Candice LeRae, and a whole lot more!
Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the SmackDown live blog kicks off once the show starts on USA Network. It will be below this line here. (Note: Links to illegal streams are prohibited. Pics and GIFs are allowed.)
WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR DEC. 27
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The show opens with a recap of the WWE Undisputed Championship title scene over the last month and change.
Nick Aldis cuts a promo talking about how Kevin Owens is in possession of the Winged Eagle title belt and that means a lot to a lot of people and was presented to Cody Rhodes as a gesture of trust in our WWE Undisputed Championship, and so the ultimatum is as follows: Kevin Owens has until the end of the night to relinquish the belt or suffer immediate and severe consequences.
Bianca Belair and Naomi are interviewed in Gorilla.
Naomi talks about how much holding a title means even though she came to it through unfortunate circumstances and Bianca Belair says they’re not forgetting about what happened to Jade Cargill and they’re gonna figure out who did it. Naomi introduces her “unofficial” tag team partner Bayley and Bayley asks Bianca if they’re good and it’s thumbs up all around.
Nia Jax gets on the mic during her entrance and asks Bianca how many times she has to say she didn’t touch Jade and none of them did. Tiffany couldn’t even help them win the tag titles, do you think she could orchestrate an attack? And they seem to be doing just fine without Cargill, taking zero time to replace her.
So Jax thinks she’s just trying to avoid suspicion on herself. Jade is bigger, stronger, and better than Belair and she couldn’t stand it, so she snapped. And Nia gets it, she’d do the same thing! So let’s stop pointing fingers and admit to it, or she’ll make her own up to it.
Bayley, Bianca Belair, & Naomi vs. Candice LeRae, Nia Jax, & Tiffany Stratton
Belair and Stratton to start, feeling out, Tiffany bails to the floor, triplicate dives from the babyface team wipe the heels out and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Jax with a headbutt nearfall on Naomi, taking her into the corner, quick tags and working her over, Belair comes in and the tide turns on LeRae, double-teams ahoy, handspring moonsault connects, cover for two! Stratton trying to keep her from the tag with a handful of braid, tag to Bayley, LeRae in, roll-through knee, Saito suplex connects!
Action to the floor, corner dropkick caught and Candice puts her face-first into the ringpost! Mounted punches, clubbing blows, bouncing her face off the apron and we go to break!
Back from commercial, tags made, Naomi hot in on Tiffany, corkscrew elbows and a roundhouse kick off the second rope! Slide under, mule kick, corkscrew bulldog, cover for two! Naomi takes Nia down, split-legged moonsault… TIFFANY BREAKS IT UP! Plancha follows it up, referee Dan Engler counting, Jax is down and Stratton goes for her Money in the Bank briefcase!
Candice grabs the case to stop her from cashing in, they argue about it, LeRae tags in, Naomi with a full nelson…
Bayley, Bianca Belair, & Naomi win by pinfall with a full nelson bomb from Naomi on Candice LeRae.
Austin Theory and Grayson Waller are backstage and Waller bills Nick Aldis for what Braun Strowman did to him, but Aldis says if he has a problem with Braun, he should take it up with Braun and anyway he’s waiting for somebody.
Sami Zayn comes in and the goofballs clear out, and we cut away as they start to talk.
And so we go to break.
Back from commercial, Zayn and Aldis are still chatting.
He thinks it’s only fair if he gets a crack at the Bloodline and Carmelo Hayes rolls up to hand out Christmas cards to the boss, Sami tells him off, he tries to offer a card and Zayn tells him to wait his turn and balls up the card and tosses it at him. Hayes tells him to stay off his business and stay off his show and Sami says the Bloodline can wait, he wants Melo tonight.
Nick makes the match and Melo talks tough as he melts away.
Austin Theory vs. Braun Strowman
Theory tries taking it to Strowman, he gets bieled huge and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Theory gets a reverse STO, chop block, big forearm, cover for one and Austin crashes to the floor off the kickout! Grayson Waller runs interference and gets his hand stomped for his trouble and Braun heads to the floor to capitalize! Waller runs away, Strowman scoops Theory up and throws him back inside!
Waller returns and gets shoved down, Austin gets under the monster but can’t capitalize! Braun picks him up again…
Braun Strowman wins by pinfall with the running powerslam.
And so we go to break.
Back from commercial, we get a Twitter promo from Kevin Owens where he respectfully disagrees with Nick Aldis and claims he’s the rightful WWE Champion and he’s not giving the title up without a conversation. But a one-on-one conversation, no security, no cronies, just the two of them.
Piper Niven is in the ring decorated for Chelsea Green’s WWE United States Championship celebration and she is completely gorgeous in a green wrap dress and white fur stole and charming lil two-tone t-strap pumps.
Chelsea makes her entrance, stunning in a very different way dressed as the Statue of Liberty in a one-shoulder seafoam number and commensurate tiara.
She gets on the mic and spells out the word “glamorous” and says that represents this very moment, the most glamorous, richest, tannest, longest-reigning first-ever WWE Women’s United States Champion. She wants to give recognition to the woman that’s been by her side the entire time, and that woman is her.
It’s her honor to bring pride and sexiness to this reign, because let’s be honest, without her you’d be stuck with one of those she-trolls in the back. And to her trash-loving opponent Michin, good riddance. She’d say that she can be a champion too but she’s Canadian and Canadians don’t lie.
She challenges us to ask not what Chelsea Green can do for us, but what we can do for Chelsea Green. (Yes ma’am, at your service) And 2025 is the year of red, white, and green!
Enter “Michin” Mia Yim.
She says if it weren’t for Chelsea’s goofy friend Piper she’d be champion and so she’s gonna take a page out of her book and introduce her little friend and give her the ass-whooping she deserves. (Her little friend is a kendo stick.)
Niven rushes out to meet her and gets laid out with the kendo stick, she attacks Chelsea in the ring and the champion ducks but trips on her platforms and Piper has to pull her out of the ring!
#DIY are walking backstage when they run into Nick Aldis and Street Profits. Aldis says he’s only gonna ask once— do they have anything to say about the Profits getting attacked? They say it’s a shame and he says there were actually two eyewitnesses to the attack, and he brings Pretty Deadly out.
They make a big show of having trouble remembering and say maybe they can remember if they get funding for their musical, to which Aldis says they’ll have all the time in the world for their musical if they’re unemployed, and they cough up Angel Garza as the assailant.
This leads the Profits to walk around the way and attack Legado del Fantasma! Nick breaks the brawl up and says he’s not dealing with this tonight and orders them to take it to the ring immediately!
And so we go to break.
Los Garza (Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo) vs. Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford)
The show kicks off with Nick Aldis making his way to the ring, looking determined and focused. He grabs a microphone and starts to address Kevin Owens, who has been causing chaos on SmackDown in recent weeks.
Aldis calls out Owens, challenging him to a match at the upcoming pay-per-view. He promises to teach Owens a lesson in respect and honor, something that he feels Owens has been lacking. The crowd is buzzing with anticipation as Aldis lays down the challenge.
Just then, Kevin Owens’ music hits and he appears on the stage, a smirk on his face. He accepts Aldis’ challenge, but adds a stipulation – if he wins, he gets a shot at the WWE Championship. Aldis nods in agreement, accepting the challenge and the stakes.
The tension between these two superstars is palpable as they stare each other down in the ring. The crowd is on the edge of their seats, eager to see what will happen next.
Stay tuned as we continue to bring you live updates and results from WWE SmackDown on December 27, 2024!
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