The road to WWE Royal Rumble 2025 continues tonight, as WWE SmackDown goes down from the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon with the second three-hour episode of 2025.
Scheduled for tonight’s show is Shinsuke Nakamura vs. LA Knight for the WWE United States Championship, Chelsea Green vs. Michin for the WWE Women’s United States Championship, new WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton will address the WWE Universe and more.
The following are complete WWE SmackDown results from Friday, January 10, 2025. The following report was written by PWMania.com reporter Matt Boone (@MattBoone0709) as the show aired live from 8-11pm EST. on USA Network.
WWE SMACKDOWN RESULTS – JANUARY 10, 2025
“WWE Then. Now. Forever. Together.” starts us off as always. We then shoot inside a packed Moda Center in Portland, OR. where Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett are standing at ringside holding microphones.
They welcome us to the show and mention they will be the new commentary team going forward, with Michael Cole and Pat McAfee taking over on WWE Raw, and Corey Graves joining the WWE NXT commentary team.
We see arrival shots of new WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton, “The Wise Man” Paul Heyman and others. An elaborate video package recapping the historic WWE Raw on Netflix debut show from this past Monday night airs.
Chaos With Paul Heyman, Cody Rhodes & Kevin Owens, Jimmy Uso & The Bloodline
Once it wraps up, we return inside the Moda Center where we hear, “Ladies and gentlemen …” Out comes Paul Heyman to kick off this week’s show in the ring on the microphone. He talks about being proud to say now that there is one and only undisputed Tribal Chief on The Island of Relevancy. Roman Reigns.
Heyman continues and says Reigns has authorized Heyman to let us know what is next on his plate and he wants to share this news with us and one man – Cody Rhodes. Heyman invites Cody Rhodes down to the ring and Rhodes obliges and makes his way to the ring.
He settles inside the ring and Heyman goes on to tell Cody Rhodes how much of a credit he is to WWE. He then informs him, per Roman Reigns, that he intends to get back what is his, which is the Undisputed WWE Championship. He says he has also authorized to tell him Reigns has declared for the 2025 Men’s Royal Rumble.
“So, with that, respectfully. Cody Rhodes … what do you want to talk about?” Before he can answer, we hear Kevin Owens’ voice. The camera catches up with “The Prize Fighter” walking-and-talking in the crowd. He tells Cody this is his fault. He could’ve left Reigns to die when The Bloodline fell apart, but instead propped him back up, and now look what’s happening.
As he gets closer to the barricade, Cody hops it and the two begin brawling in the crowd. They fight off-camera shot and the camera focuses on the ring, where we see Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga have snuck in behind Heyman. Heyman turns around and the two slowly back him into a corner, where he cowers until the theme for Jimmy Uso hits.
He sprints down to the ring and begins brawling with Fatu and Tonga. Uso gets a hold of steel chair and starts whacking bodies. He turns and gets run over by Jacob Fatu. With Uso down, Fatu and Tonga begin to put the boots to him in the corner while a chair is wrapped around his neck. Fatu lays out a referee.
Fatu super kicks another official in a suit. Cody Rhodes comes back into the ring and beats down Tonga. He turns, as does Fatu, and the two have an intense stare down while moving slowly towards each other. They engage and the fight is on.
Cody sends Fatu sailing out of the ring. Tonga and Fatu stare Cody down from the floor while a ton of officials hold them back. Cody’s theme hits to end the chaotic opener. On that note, the show shifts into the first commercial break of the evening.
WWE Women’s United States Championship
Chelsea Green (c) vs. Michin
When the show returns, we see a brief backstage segment. Officials are yelling and arguing with Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga, when LA Knight comes by and kicks them out of the arena — literally — and leaves.
Back inside the arena, Michin makes her way to the ring for our first match of the evening. The familiar sounds of Chelsea Green’s entrance tune hits next and out comes “The Hot Mess” for the first televised defense of her newly won WWE Women’s United States Championship.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this title tilt. As soon as things get started, Michin looks for her Eat DeFeat finisher out of the gate, but the champ hits the mat and rolls out to the floor to avoid it.
Michin hits a dropkick and covers for a near fall. Green slams Michin into the turnbuckles and runs into a boot by Michin. Michin gets Green caught up in the ropes in a submission hold. Green is able to throw Michin outside the ring and slams her into the barricade.
The action resumes inside the ring again, where Green punches away at Michin as the show heads into a mid-match commercial break. When we return, we see Green has Michin in a headlock in the middle of the ring. Michin hits a snapmare to get out of the hold and Green bounces back and puts Michin back in a hold.
Michin hits a back suplex and breaks the hold. Michin elbows Green and kicks her in the face and hits two head scissor take downs followed by a dropkick. Michin cannonballs into Green in the corner and covers for a two count. Green hits a cradle facebuster and covers Michin but Michin kicks out.
Green gets on the top turnbuckle and attempts a dropkick but misses. Michin nails Green with some kicks and kicks Piper Niven in the face and senton’s onto Niven outside the ring. Michin gets on the top rope and hits a crossbody but Green rolls through and pins Michin to retain her Women’s U.S. title. Once the match is over, Niven attacks Michin.
Winner and STILL WWE Women’s United States Champion: Chelsea Green
Los Garza vs. Pretty Deadly
We shoot backstage, where we see Los Garza, Pretty Deadly and The Motor City Machine Guns talking with SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis. A-Town Down Under comes by and says they deserve a title shot and maybe they’ll go to Raw.
Aldis says MCMG can face A-Town Down Under and Pretty Deadly can battle Los Garza in separate tag-team matches tonight. Inside the arena, Santos Escobar leads Los Garza to the ring for the first of these two bouts.
As they finish their entrance, we head to a pre-match commercial break. When we return, Pretty Deadly are finishing up their ring walks. The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with this tag-team tilt.
Los Garza dominate the early action. Pretty Deadly finally make the tag and hit a dastardly heel spot behind the referee’s back to shift the offensive momentum in their favor for the first time in the match.
On that note, the show heads into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues. When we return, we see Los Garza starting to come back, when another hair pull from behind from the non-legal Pretty Deadly member on the ring apron cuts off their momentum.
Moments later, Elektra Lopez hops on the ring apron to provide a distraction. While the referee is dealing with her, Santos Escobar crotches one-half of Pretty Deadly on the top-rope. This leads to a double-team finisher from Los Garza for the pinfall.
Winners: Los Garza
WWE United States Championship
Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. LA Knight
Wasting no time, we hear the radio sound effects into the familiar sounds of LA Knight’s theme music. Out comes “The Mega Star” for our second U.S. title of the evening. This time it’s a rematch for the men’s U.S. title. We head to a quick pre-match commercial break.
When we return, Knight is in the ring and his music dies down. The lights in the Moda Center go out and the ominous sounding intro to Shinsuke Nakamura’s new entrance tune plays. Out comes the reigning and defending WWE United States Champion.
The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with our second title tilt of the evening. Nakamura goes for a kick and lands in a headlock. They lock up again and end up in at the turnbuckle and the ref breaks it up. Knight starts with punches on Nakamura and hits a neckbreaker on Nakamura.
Nakamura is stomped on in the corner and Nakamura rolls out onto the apron. Nakamura kicks Knight and pulls him out on the apron. Nakamura knees Knight in the face and they get back in the ring. Nakamura stomps on Knight and Knight and Nakamura trade punches and kicks. Nakamura lays Knight on the top turnbuckle and slams into Knight’s torso sending Knight out for the ring.
Knight clotheslines Nakamura and throws him over the ropes outside the ring. Knight baseball slides into Nakamura and slams Nakamura’s head into the announce desk. Knight attempts to slam Nakamura into the ring post but Nakamura slides out of the hold and slams Knight into the ring post twice. On that note, we shift gears and head into a mid-match commercial break.
This time when we return we see both men are laid out and they get back on their feet and trade right hands in the center of the ring. Knight takes out Nakamura with a clothesline and mounts Nakamura and punches him. Knight slams down Nakamura and hits an elbow on Nakamura and covers but Nakamura kicks out.
Knight gets Nakamura on his shoulders and Nakamura slinks out off and Knight starts punching Nakamura. Knight is sent into the turnbuckles and we see on of the pads on the turnbuckles has been removed. Nakamura kicks Knight who is propped on the second rope and Nakamura then kicks Knight in the face.
Knight hits a superplex off the top rope and covers for a near fall. Knight slaps Nakamura in an inverted crab and Nakamura gets to the ropes to break the hold. Nakamura kicks Knight down and Knight rolls up Nakamura for a one count.
Nakamura hits an elbow on Knight and hits the Kinshasa and Knight gets his foot on the ropes. Nakamura sets Knight’s head against the exposed turnbuckle and tries to ram his head into it but Knight moves and hits the BFT. Tama Tonga and Jacob Fatu run in attack Knight.
Tonga and Fatu destroy Knight in the ring. Cody Rhodes and Jimmy Uso run out to make the save. They attack Tonga and Fatu. Officials come out and Rhodes gets on the mic and tells Aldis to not send Fatu and Tonga home and to set up a match between Fatu and Tonga against Rhodes and Uso. Aldis says, off-mic, that it’s official. We head to another commercial break.
Winner via Disqualification: LA Knight
Motor City Machine Guns vs. A-Town Down Under
When we return from the break, Tessitore and Barrett bring up Tiffany Stratton finally capturing the WWE Women’s Championship on last week’s show after cashing in her Money In The Bank briefcase. We see an extensive video package recapping this sequence of events.
After the video package wraps up, Tessitore and Barrett mention that we will hear from the new Women’s Champion later in the show. The theme for former tag-team champions Motor City Machine Guns hits. Out comes Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley for our next match of the evening.
As the MCMG duo settle inside the squared circle, we shift gears and head into another quick pre-match commercial break. We return from the break to Tessitore talking about 10,000+ fans being packed inside the Moda Center tonight.
The theme for A-Town Down Under hits and out comes the heel duo of Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. The arrogant tandem head to the ring and settle inside the squared circle for our next tag-team tilt of the evening. The bell sounds and off we go.
Following some basic early match back-and-forth action, we shift gears and head into a mid-match commercial break as the bout continues. When we return, we see all four men are in the ring and Theory covers Shelley after Shelley was double teamed.
Theory gets Shelley in a submission hold and Shelley battles out of it but Theory takes him down with an elbow. Waller is tagged in and Shelley takes both Waller and Theory out and tags in Sabin. Sabin punches Waller and takes out Theory.
Sabin hits a missile dropkick on Waller and a dropkick on the mat and Waller rolls out of the ring. Shelley is tagged in and MCMG baseball slide into Theory and Waller. Sabin suicide dives onto both men and in the ring, MCMG double team Waller and cover for a near fall.
Sabin and Waller battle outside the ring and Sabin is taken out by Theory. Theory and Waller double team Sabin and he is covered for a two count. Theory tags himself in and they roll each other up and Shelley is now tagged in and all four men take each other out. MCMG double team Waller and then double team Theory. They hit Skull and Bones on Theory and get the pin.
Winners: Motor City Machine Guns
Tiffany Stratton’s Chaotic WWE Women’s Championship Celebration
We shoot backstage and we see WWE Tag-Team Champions DIY were watching the MCMG and A-Town Down Under match. Pretty Deadly walks up to them and asks what happened to their deal and why DIY didn’t come out and help them earlier with Los Garza.
DIY says they’ll get their title matches. Apollo Crews tells Pretty Deadly that if they’re dumb enough to believe DIY they deserve everything that comes at them.
From there, we shift gears and head to Nia Jax’s locker room. She doesn’t look happy. Candice LeRae approaches her and says she saw Tiffany Stratton getting ready to head to the ring. Nia questions what she’s going to say. She says she should go congratulate her in person.
On that note, we shift gears and head into another commercial break. When we return, Stratton makes her way to the ring and gloats for what feels like forever, in pretty boring repetitive fashion, until she is interrupted by Nia Jax.
Jax comes to the ring and congratulates Stratton for finally rubbing two brain cells together and doing something to take advantage of the situation. She claims credit for Stratton being where she is. She warns her to hand the title back over or else.
Bayley’s theme hits and out she comes. She mocks Nia for being taken advantage of, and tells Stratton she’s going to be the one to beat her for the title. Naomi comes out with Bianca Belair and essentially says the same thing. A big brawl breaks out with all of the women. As they are all in a pile brawling on the mat, Stratton heads to the top-rope and hits the Prettiest Moonsault Ever onto all of them.
WWE Women’s Championship Fatal-4-Way Eliminator
Bianca Belair vs. Naomi vs. Bayley vs. Nia Jax
Nick Aldis comes out as Stratton is walking to the back. He says seeing is how they all want a shot at the women’s title. They will compete against each other in a fatal-4-way match to determine the number one contender.
That match will take place right now. The brawl with the four continues in the ring as we shift gears and head into a quick pre-match commercial break. When we return from the break, the bell sounds and all four men begin brawling in the middle of the ring.
Jax throws Bayley out to the floor. She whips Naomi into Belair in the corner. She goes to follow in for a splash, but Naomi moves. Naomi and Belair look to double-suplex Jax, but Jax counters and double-suplexes them both by herself.
After some more back-and-forth action, we head into a mid-match commercial break as this high stakes fatal-4-way continues. When we return, we see Jax and Naomi are in the ring and Naomi delivers some kicks to Jax and takes her down with a tornado face-buster.
Bayley and Belair enter and start with punches on Jax. Both ladies slam into Jax sending her outside the ring and now Bayley and Belair trade punches. Bayley rolls up Belair for a two count and Belair tries for a KOD and gets rolled up for a two count. Jax comes in and takes out Bayley and Belair.
Naomi attacks Jax and gets her down and hits a split legged moonsault and covers for a near fall. Bayley hits a flying elbow on Jax and Naomi breaks the pin. Belair hits a 450 splash on Jax and Bayley pulls Belair off of Jax and all three women try to pin Jax. Candice LeRae runs down and tends to Jax outside the ring.
In the ring, Belair and Naomi double team Bayley sending her out for the ring. Belair and Naomi are left in the ring and before they can go at it, Belair takes out Bayley outside and Naomi tries the same with Jax who catches Naomi and slams her into the apron. In the ring, Belair takes down Jax and Bayley breaks the pin.
Bayley beats on Belair and covers and Naomi breaks it up. They go back and forth doing this with a different lady breaking the hold after another tries pinning another contender. Jax throws Belair into the turnbuckles and shes sent out of the ring with a double dropkick.
Belair hits a moonsault on Bayley and she cover for a two count. Belair goes for the KOD on Bayley and LeRae grabs Belair’s braid and releases it, which smacks Naomi. Belair and Jax fight outside and crash into the announce table. In the ring, Bayley hits the Rose plant on Naomi for the win to earn the first shot at Stratton’s title.
Winner and NEW No. 1 Contender: Bayley
Cody Rhodes & Jimmy Uso vs. Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga
It’s main event time!
But first, we shoot backstage and see Cody Rhodes telling Jimmy Uso that he expected as champion that Roman Reigns would be coming for it at some point. He says they’re still cool and to focus on their main event match tonight. After he walks off, Carmelo Hayes warns Uso that he’s cool with The Bloodline now.
We head to another break. When we return, we learn via a backstage interview with Bayley that her title shot against Tiffany Stratton will take place on next week’s show. Tessitore and Barrett run down more matches and segments for next week’s show.
Backstage, we see Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga walking-and-talking as they head through the halls towards the ring for our final match of the evening. Jacob does all of the talking. “Your nightmare is here!” The Bloodline theme hits and the duo heads to the ring.
As the heel duo settle inside the squared circle, we shift gears and head into a quick pre-match commercial break. When we return, the theme for Jimmy Uso hits and out he comes to the ring. His music dies down and the entrance tune for Cody Rhodes plays.
“The American Nightmare” gives his weight belt to a fan on the way to the ring, and then joins Jimmy for this main event tag-team tilt against The New Bloodline duo. The bell sounds and we’re officially off-and-running with our final match of the evening.
Cody and Tonga kick things off for their respective teams. Rhodes punches out Tonga and hits a front suplex on Tonga. Uso is tagged in and they double team Tonga. Tonga punches and kicks Uso and Fatu is tagged in. Fatu stomps on Uso in the corner and clotheslines Uso into the turnbuckle.
Uso connects with some right hands and walks into a Samoan Drop by Fatu. Moments later, we shift gears and head into a mid-match commercial break as the action continues with The New Bloodline now in a comfortable offensive lead.
When we return, we see Tonga beating down Jimmy Uso as the fans in the Moda Center try and rally around Uso, hoping for the much-needed tag to Rhodes. Fatu knocks Uso down and tags in Tonga. Tonga splashes onto Uso and takes out Rhodes on the apron. Tonga holds Uso down and stomps on him.
Fatu tags in and takes out Rhodes on the apron as well and sentons onto Uso and covers but Uso kicks out. Fatu hits a running hip attack on Uso in the corner and does it again and covers Fatu but Uso kicks out. Fatu places Uso on the top turnbuckle and climbs up behind him and headbutts Uso and Uso elbows Fatu knocking him to the mat.
Uso hits a corkscrew splash onto Fatu taking Fatu down. Rhodes and Tonga are tagged in and Rhodes takes Tonga down with a power slam. Rhodes hits a disaster kick on Tonga and sends Tonga out of the ring and sends Fatu out of the ring too and flies out and splashes both Fatu and Tonga. Back in the ring, Rhodes punches Tonga and hits him with an elbow and covers for a near fall.
Rhodes goes for CrossRhodes and Tonga counters out and hits a cradle DDT and punches Uso on the apron. Rhodes sits Tonga on the top rope and superplexes Tonga and Uso hits the Uso Splash on Tonga. Fatu runs in and Rhodes hits the Cody Cutter on Fatu sending him out of the ring.
Uso hits a suicide dive on Fatu sending him onto the announce table. Kevin Owens comes down and Rhodes leaves the ring and battles Owens. In the ring, Uso hits the Uso Splash on Tonga and covers him but Fatu breaks the pin and tags himself in. Fatu beats up Uso and hits an Impaler DDT and hits his moonsault on Uso for the win.
After the match, the camera shot catches up with Cody and Owens, who are still wildly brawling. They fight their way up on top of some production crates and equipment near the top of the entrance stage. Cody ends up tackling Owens off of it and through a table down below. A bunch of officials rush to check on them. Cody is getting back to his feet as this week’s show goes off the air on that note. Thanks for joining us!
Winners: Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga
