WWE SmackDown live results: Final build for Survivor Series

With only one day left before Survivor Series, CM Punk and Roman Reigns are scheduled to speak tonight on WWE SmackDown.

Punk joined team Bloodline OG last week when Paul Heyman returned to WWE TV and announced him as their final member for the WarGames. Punk and Reigns stared down briefly before posing as the show went off the air. We’ll see if they’re on the same page ahead of teaming up at Survivor Series.

Speaking of the men’s WarGames match, Jey Uso and Jacob Fatu will square off tonight with the advantage on the line.

After interacting backstage last week, Cody Rhodes goes head-to-head with Carmelo Hayes tonight. Rhodes does not have a match at Survivor Series, but will defend his Undisputed WWE Championship against Kevin Owens on the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event next month.

The Women’s United States Championship tournament continues tonight with Michin, Piper Niven and Lash Legend competing in a triple threat to see who will advance to the next round.

Tonight’s episode was taped last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Join us for coverage from 8:00 PM Eastern Time.

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– A video recapping last week’s Bloodline developments opened the show.

The Women’s War Games Campaign

This was pretty basic. Nothing wrong with that, of course. I’m just not so sure there’s much they could do to heat up the women’s wargames. As I keep saying, it’s a war game that needs some wrestlers, not some wrestlers that needs a war game. Ripley and Liv have their blood feud, but everything else here seems secondary. My hope is that the payoff to the Cargill angle will ultimately make Saturday’s game mean more than it appears to want, but seeing is believing. For now, I’m more interested in what comes next for everyone involved after this weekend.

In the arena, the babyfaces in the women’s War Games match made their entrance. Inside the ring, Rhea Ripley spoke first, saying that friendship doesn’t matter because tomorrow they will all step into the War Games. Ripley said they all have someone they want to get their hands on. Ripley said no one will be able to stop her team from brutalizing their opponents. Ripley listed their opponents by name and Naomi chimed in.

Naomi said that Nia Jax and “her lap dogs” will get what they deserve. Belair took his turn, saying all five of their opponents can “get it.” Ripley said Liv Morgan wished she never met Ripley. IYO SKY they wanted to destroy them and Morgan’s music hit. The women’s War Games contestants made their entrance. Morgan said it’s funny how confident the baby faces are. Jax mentioned how Bayley and SKY tortured Bianca for years and SKY turned her back on Bayley earlier this year. Jax said they will implode before they get to the ring.

Naomi told Jax to shut up. Bayley noted how Jax manipulates Stratton and Jax may not have any friends coming out of the War Games. Morgan said they are a united front. Morgan followed that up by pointing out how Cargill was attacked and it’s suspicious that Bayley isn’t on the War Games team. Ripley said that soon Morgan won’t be able to hide behind anyone because there’s nowhere to run inside the cage.

Morgan responded by saying she will smash Ripley’s face on the steel cage. Ripley laughed and said that she feels so bad about Morgan’s face that Dirty Dom doesn’t even bother to look at Morgan. The heels teased as they rushed the ring, but Morgan held everyone back. The babyfaces then went after the heels and the two teams brawled in the entrance. Eventually the officials broke it all up and Ripley’s music hit to end the segment.

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Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Andrade (10:32)

For some reason, I couldn’t get the end of the Carmelo Hayes/Andrade streak out of my mind while watching this one. So they have this streak of games overachieving on every level, making it 3 wins apiece, and…that Game 7 LA Knight nonsense is really going to be all we get as a solution? Was there no one who wanted to do a job? Is there a bigger story being told? If it’s the latter, then I don’t know what that story could be, because now Andrade is back to taking losses to the type of wrestler who was out for seven months, just returned, and now coincidentally gets a US title shot. Not a fan. The match itself was fine. Andrade got a lot of it and his offense looked good, which was encouraging, but there was no way Nakamura was losing this heading into his (rushed) showdown with Knight tomorrow. It all adds up to a bad taste in my mouth, and I’m not even the one with black goo inside.

Nakamura made his entrance with a slower, more ominous rendition of his signature song. Nakamura was in control early until Andrade came off the top with a cross-body. Nakamura came back with a series of shoulder blocks and punches. Nakamura ran at Andrade, but Andrade rolled up Nakamura. With Nakamura on the outside, Andrade ran into a boot from Nakamura. Back inside the ring, Andrade dropped Nakamura over the top, back to the outside. Andrade then went to the top and hit a moonsault on Nakamura on the outside. The show then went to a commercial break.

Back from the break, Nakamura was briefly in control, but Andrade fought back, complete with a dragon screw leg whip. Andrade ran at Nakamura but Nakamura countered and the two ended up on the second rope where Andrade elbowed Nakamura to the mat. Andrade went to the top and hit his second attempt moonsault for a nice nearfall. Andrade set up for The Message, but Nakamura worked out of it and went for a knee, but Andrade countered with a back elbow for a two-count.

Andrade performed the first two of the three Amigos, and for the third round, Andrade put Nakamura in the corner. Andrade went for the double knees but Nakamura moved and took a turnbuckle with him so Andrade ran into an open turnbuckle. Nakamura finished Andrade with the Kinshasa.

After the match, LA Knight ran to the ring, but Nakamura spit black mist in Knight’s face. Knight sold the hell out of it.

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– Solo Sikoa’s Bloodline was backstage and Nick Aldis came in. Aldis said everyone is banned from ringside for Jacob Fatu’s match against Jey Uso later. Sikoa said they understood.

– Ciampa was shown yelling at Gargano backstage. Ciampa brought up how Gargano’s family thinks they are losers and Ciampa’s family thinks they are losers. Ciampa called out Alex Shelley and said his friendship with Gargano means more to Gargano than getting their titles back. Ciampa said that Gargano has a week to figure it out and if Gargano doesn’t it will all be done Ciampa’s way.

– A Kevin Owens video was sent. Owens explained why he is right. On January 1, 2021, Roman Reigns threw Owens off a 15-foot tall scaffolding. From there, at the Royal Rumble, Reigns ran Owens over with a golf cart. Owens went to the 2023 Royal Rumble, where Reigns ordered Owens to be super-kicked over and over again. Cody was at the arena that night, Owens said, but he didn’t help. Those are just three examples of what Reigns has done to Owens, and it’s among the reasons why Owens says he’s right about everything. Owens said he wants to turn the American nightmare into the Canadian dream.