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00:00Give me this camera!
00:02I am so sick of hearing Happy New Year.
00:06I asked for one match with John Cena's retirement tour.
00:11Our story needed closure, and I am stuck here.
00:15I offered my mentorship to all the young and up-and-coming superstars,
00:19but it was met an entitlement.
00:22Looking like 2005 Jelly Roll out there.
00:26Chalamet, this ain't over.
00:28Not only did Johan ruin my last SmackDown,
00:34but he brought back a nickname.
00:37Untrue nickname.
00:40Pride E-ball! Pride E-ball!
00:42We are on to 2026.
00:46John Cena, we can't see him, and we don't want to see him anymore!
00:50I am more than just a leader and a star.
00:54I have a focus that has the knowledge
00:57and the power to fail!
00:59To me!
01:00To me!
01:01To me!
01:02To me!
01:02They passed on with hirales in my head!
01:08To me!
01:10I'm so enjoy, I'm so proud to be!
01:13They talked to me!
01:15We got chosen, we're gonna try!
01:18Randy, Randy, Randy!
01:19Randy!
01:20Randy!
01:20Randy!
01:21Randy Orton is back on SmackDown!
01:24we are the gate made to this company we are the faces be ms k-o
01:35happy new year men your turn
01:45rko wwe friday night smackdown 2026 could very well be the year of the viper even though we beat you a few weeks ago we're trying to stay good with nick albis but you know that will actually make it worth it help you to a victory tonight and then you can owe us a shot at those
02:10we can face you anytime um you guys should ready for kabuki warriors
02:22never a good sign
02:28it's good to be back because out of respect i need to let you know now that i am back in the ring once you beat drew mcintyre next week in berlin i am coming for this
02:52i just want to remind you that drew is going to be here tonight you and i both know he is going to try to get under your skin you cannot let that happen
03:04i hate to be a dead horse but if you touch him you forfeit this and as your colleague and your friend i would hate to see that happen
03:12nick you don't have to worry when it comes to this that's not gonna happen
03:17eight woman tag team match here tonight on smackdown
03:20eo sky does that factor at all into this around the waist of ria and eo and on the other side of things ria and eo championship shop after raw on monday night
03:37back the tag team division has become the kabuki warriors naya and lash gain in the upper hand ria lost
03:44lost to oscar a couple of weeks ago
03:47ria and oscar
03:48tough as ria is it's a risky proposition it's just merely see a little hesitation
03:53oh from ria ripley before tonight cory i guess just hoping to survive
03:57keep your eyes on kairi sane
03:59and kairi next level tag team chemistry from the kabuki warriors
04:03kairi with a kick to the back of the neck
04:05there's the double team
04:07nonetheless now counts and a kick out of two
04:10kairi oscar naya and lash to cut the ring in half had potential for a long time it seems like naya is finally
04:17lash legend who owns a victory over alexa bliss
04:21and now legend with a oh big splash face but not enough
04:25lash legend believes she belongs
04:26wow may snap bliss's arm and two and a clothesline
04:29daphne lechard certainly has her hands full in this one
04:31bliss from the second turnbuckle
04:33tornado ddt plants naya
04:35and here comes the queen
04:38and that big cross body
04:40she plans to have her best year yet
04:42is a walking target championship or not
04:45oh
04:46natural selection jacks is down
04:49charlotte moonsault from up top
04:52for the win
04:53and a kick out
04:54it's obvious charlotte flair has a healthy respect spear
04:58but daya jacks made her pay
05:00cover by jacks and a kick out
05:02rocks the queen tag made to oscar
05:04as a tag team
05:05charlotte gonna
05:07first got to apply the figure four and now bridge into a figure eight oscar's
05:11insane elbow
05:12the genius of the sky
05:15charlotte makes a tag
05:17the two-time world champion
05:19a woman who did
05:21eo with a double missile drop kick
05:23brilliant maneuver
05:24made the tag
05:26not sure if eo sky realizes that
05:28two
05:28what a kick
05:29what a kick
05:30and somehow eo able to kick out at two
05:34i'm so impressed
05:35both naya and legend
05:36and now punishing eo sky
05:39last legend
05:40when it comes to mind game
05:43she is second to none
05:44and last legend
05:45has a team in a relatively short period of time
05:47it's also very impressive
05:48eo desperately needs to make a tag
05:52and last legend going to follow it up with one of her own
05:54just mentioned naya knows exactly what she's doing
05:57he's in
05:58it's up tomorrow
06:00double team coming
06:01kairi saved
06:02with kabuki warrior
06:04and aya sky
06:05able to move out of harm's way
06:06being attacked by naya jazz
06:08a cheap shot by oscar
06:09sky
06:10here comes the eradicator
06:13has been unleashed in this one
06:15turn kairi inside out for those clothesline
06:17face first
06:19ripley just on another level right now
06:22and he was shot at a lap
06:23and now charlotte in the mix
06:24amigale
06:26legend with a big right
06:29rio with a dropkick
06:30riptied
06:33over the moonstone
06:37i got big plans for smackdown in 2026
06:46i want jordan grace to be part of those plans
06:48you've given me a lot to consider
06:50and
06:51nicholas
06:51i can absolutely not go out the whole night
06:53have you felt the temperature
06:54you're interrupting
06:55one of the newest members of the smackdown roster
06:57miss jordan grace
06:58welcome
06:59and
06:59goodbye
07:00we have championship matters to tend to
07:01some people are going to make this decision
07:03a lot easier
07:04nicholas
07:05i can't possibly go out there
07:07do you not see the emotional ending
07:09i am mentally unwell
07:10i actually had a new year's resolution
07:12first
07:12fourth
07:13and final united states women's champion
07:15i am fighting
07:15fighting for my life on the internet
07:17okay
07:17what about i accomplish
07:19a goal
07:20and strip you of the united states championship
07:22unfit for purpose
07:23and impeach you madam president
07:25disgusting
07:27i don't want to do that
07:29you're part of the problem col
07:30hey kit are you there
07:31kit wilson
07:34and here i find myself in buffalo
07:46you are toxic
07:48woo woo woo
07:50oh no
07:51matt cardona
07:58he's calling himself the guy's the personification of toxic masculinity cold
08:02live and in living color
08:04so explain that to me
08:05why
08:05this
08:05matt cardona can just stroll into me
08:08and my head says cory that uh
08:09matt cardona
08:11the fact that kit wilson is on a mission
08:13not like this meathead
08:15this guy lives his life about jim pan and laundry
08:18and now cardona with a
08:19big hit to the face
08:21and cardona
08:22wilson now
08:24oh and cardona
08:25look at this
08:26kit wilson
08:27and a kick out with authority by cardona
08:29right hands
08:30he's about to steal the moment
08:32he's about to steal the show
08:33and kit now with the right hand to the
08:35so says wilson
08:36missile swap kick
08:37cardona face first goes wilson
08:40cardona is a tough sob
08:42say it say it with me
08:43no
08:44woo woo woo
08:45setting zach
08:46now setting zach up
08:49he calls out the tourniquet
08:51cardona kicks out at two
08:52wilson
08:53oh and the knees right to the back
08:55rough rider
08:56well what else do you want me to call it
09:00here is your winner
09:02matt cardona
09:04because much of your 2025 was defined by your rivalry with alistair black so what is it going to take to close that door on this rivalry for good
09:13six months kathy six months i've been going to war with this guy i think i can speak for everyone when i say enough's enough this ends tonight
09:20alistair for half a year you've tried to change me you're not my creator with all that even burning my face the only thing you've done is wake something inside me that even your crazy mind won't understand buffalo new york i'm gonna stuff you in an ambulance close the door you're the one that's gonna fade to black
09:282026 live tonight
09:47what is the meaning of family that is an answer you've been searching for since you were exiled from your true you claim the wyatt six are not a family
09:57but you haven't taken the time to comprehend the force you mock what you do not understand
10:04our family is not made up of just us family is filled with millions of fireflies around the world that will always remember
10:16it's time for us to chop down your family tree because when the dust settles we will be the ones
10:27you're saying he's got plenty to say i haven't really been around the last couple of weeks so it feels really good to be back out here it was actually out in the audience and enjoy the show just like each and every single one of you hit me in a way that i i really didn't expect something happened that and the match gets underway and my son he turns to me and he goes baba why do they
10:56why do they call john cena the never seen 17 john cena has won the world championship 17 times how many times have you won it and i had to tell him zero he's been watching me in the ring with drew mcintyre with seth
11:11rollins so to him it doesn't make sense why is this one why is this one missing i talked a lot okay i talked a lot about becoming a world champion now i am here to do it 2026 is here oh yeah
11:33oh i would never disrespect booker t by trying to ad-lib
11:40trick and a
11:43the sexiest and most entertaining superstar alive
11:51we haven't been formally introduced some call me hollywood trick
11:55some call me hollywood trick but you can call me trick willie michael jordan michael jackson mike tyson at the same place and at the same time
12:02and one reason only sammy nick out has called me said trick willie we need you on smackdown
12:08something that something that only what you can bring trick willie he said we need someone that's tall dark and handsome
12:13well trick hold on sammy i wasn't done talking i could take off these shades i could take off these lemon pepper steppers
12:22trick williams is a grown ass man sammy zane i'm here to be world champion i'm not the guy who can almost get the job done like you sammy
12:32all this is right about you you have all the tools the problem with you is you have yet to be humbled
12:39you think you're the first guy to be good you think you're not the first guy to walk through these ropes
12:43teaching you a lesson
12:45and teaching you a thing or two about
12:48to be humbled
12:50happy new year
13:01new year
13:03last week i wanted to fight
13:05and i wanted to fight the best version
13:08so you gave exactly that to me
13:11and while the outcome was not necessarily what i expected or what i wanted i think there are worse things in life than losing to him
13:19but somehow i believe that it wasn't our last time
13:22do you plan to continue the open challenge?
13:25after i put johnny's jersey in the raptors tonight i'm gonna keep it going
13:28when you're ready to run this thing back i'll keep the lights on for you
13:32hey what up miss?
13:34this wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for you so from the sincerest part of my heart i just gotta tell you thank you
13:39thank you
13:40you finally come to your senses
13:41thank you me man
13:42thank you for finally leaving me alone because i've been better ever since dawg
13:47popes mellow will miss
13:50johnny gargano
13:53disrespected me punching the microphone in my chest he must be stupid or something
13:57i say the new guys got a lot to learn about respect
14:01you better learn how to mind your business while grown folk talking
14:03whoa whoa hey
14:04huh
14:05you're just making friends everywhere you go aren't you?
14:06yeah i gotta do that
14:07maybe you do need to be taught a lesson
14:09next week
14:10you're gonna make your official smackdown debut
14:12versus ray phoenix
14:14yeah you wanna do it?
14:15appreciate that nick
14:16alright
14:17see you next week
14:18carmelo hayes
14:25they lose a bit of the hunger
14:26a bit of the drive that got them to the mount
14:28cheap shot
14:29this matchup isn't even officially underway
14:31talked to him earlier today corey
14:33he admitted that this really must win for gargano tonight
14:36great deal of success in nxt
14:38carmelo hayes with the pace picked up here
14:40when he became nxt champion
14:42he lost the title
14:43he knows how tough
14:44and i like this aggression we're seeing out of gargano here in the opening more times than any other championship
14:49twenty-four times
14:51what a knee by hayes
14:53and is larae a true rider
14:55there it is that slink
14:56gargano and he takes advantage off the distraction
14:59gargano launching himself up over the top
15:01and takes carmelo down
15:02because gargano's got a singular focus tonight
15:05and look at candace getting involved yet again
15:07this really
15:08gargano now with a neck breaker to
15:10a master strategist
15:12but hayes
15:14and gargano
15:15ooh
15:16drop it
15:17hayes with an elbow
15:18a rear chin lock applied
15:19simple but very effective
15:20johnny gargano hoping to wrestle it away
15:22from carmelo hayes
15:23cover
15:24hayes has to kick out
15:25oh
15:26big slap by
15:27hayes off the second rope
15:28with that springboard
15:29lariat
15:30and carmelo
15:31cover now by the champ
15:33kick out by johnny gargano
15:35oh gargano
15:36nice counter sensation
15:37well he's not where he wants to be
15:38oh look at that reverse leg drop
15:40hayes now up over the top
15:42and taking
15:43full splash
15:44three
15:45gargano at two
15:47twenty twenty six
15:49first three hour smackdown
15:50gargano made him pay my god
15:53oh look at this
15:54oh
15:55counter by johnny
15:56hayes gets the shoulder up
15:58on
15:59carmelo with a big super kick
16:01hayes springboard off the second rope
16:02oh
16:03now for the win
16:04kick out
16:05sly as they come
16:08oh and hayes driven
16:09on
16:10hayes gets the shoulder up at two
16:12blood trickling from his nose
16:14oh
16:15rocks hayes
16:16and hayes rocks johnny with a drop kick
16:19johnny does as well
16:20collision both men down center of the ring
16:23springboard
16:24oh
16:25caught in the jaw
16:26got it
16:27oh
16:28counter by the champion
16:29oh
16:30and hanging him up on the top rope is hayes
16:32studied one another
16:33oh
16:34face first
16:35down goes hayes
16:37off the DDT
16:38to win the championship
16:39and a kick out at two
16:41gargano
16:42and gargano
16:43and gargano now
16:44through the second rope
16:45driving the champ
16:46johnny again
16:47oh went for that slingshot spear
16:48causing a distraction
16:49gargano
16:50now johnny went for this earlier on in the matchup
16:53gargano
16:54with an air rig crash
16:55he's used to perfection
16:56first 48
16:58nothing
16:59but net
17:00but net
17:01case
17:03closed
17:06well he uh
17:07gets an a
17:08get fit
17:09who got it
17:10who got it
17:11who got it
17:12who got it
17:13who got it
17:14who got it
17:15who got it
17:16who got it
17:17who got it
17:18who got it
17:19is everything okay
17:21that's an old chapter
17:22what's the plan for the y6
17:23i see boas there
17:25but
17:26what's the plan for the y6
17:28i spoke to mr aldis
17:31and next week
17:32it is going to be on four
17:33on four
17:34family
17:35versus family
17:36after we take care of them
17:37those tag
17:38team
17:39titles
17:40the men are outside waiting
17:41let's get the hell out of buffalo
17:43the line in smackdown's first ever ambulance match jade footage is circulating of a recent match between yourself and meachin where she sustained a shoulder injury was that injury intentional on your part it was who gonna stop me meachin messed around and found out and that's on her injuries happen when these pigeons don't know their place speaking of pigeons whether or not i'm going to sign to smackdown so i just wanted to come and get a good look at the
18:00you sign somewhere else because this is my show and i'm that bitch
18:05well i'm jordan grace but you're definitely one of those
18:07yeah
18:08sammy have you seen drew
18:09nope
18:10hear what you had to say out there
18:11apparently everyone is being honest tonight
18:12i respect you
18:13i like you
18:14i like you
18:15i like you
18:16i like you
18:17i like you
18:18i like you
18:19i like you
18:20i like you
18:21i like you
18:22i like you
18:23i like you
18:24i like you
18:25i like you
18:26i like you
18:27i like you
18:28i like you
18:29i've always liked you
18:30who was the first one in the ring at wrestlemania when you won that championship huh
18:34you know i think the world of you
18:36but surely you must understand where i'm coming from right
18:39gentlemen
18:40how's everybody doing sammy welcome back
18:42have you seen drew
18:43i haven't seen him yet i don't know where he is
18:45i'm okay
18:46but we need to handle this and i'm heading to the ring now
18:49we need to head into the ring now
19:11be perfectly honest call i don't think tony road to get his hands on the scottish warrior
19:15what do you want to talk about it shocks me these days to find out i'm not the youngest
19:27i'd love to say it's my heart but no it is my mentality when approaching anybody in a wwe ring
19:36i want them to see me seeing them when they see this championship when they see me the stu
19:49they think the fans and drew mcintyre you reek i am so glad you become this mountain to climb
19:58i'm gonna tell you an even bigger secret because when i look at my peers when i look in the locker room
20:04nobody asks me what do i see whether it be friend whether it be foe when i see drew mcintyre is lunch
20:11i'm the one who calls himself the champ and that does not change in berlin
20:19you're so predictable because you're old school you my friend are as vanilla as it gets
20:26the kind of match your dad used to have three stages of hell so let's get into the stages shall we
20:33number one straight wrestling match i know the refs won't mess with me they won't screw me over
20:38because they'll know what happened to them fall number two the falls are gonna count anywhere
20:43if you want to ddt me on a title again it's legal buddy funder bar we go to a third fall
20:50it's inside an old school steel cage two men enter i have broken you mentally cody next week
20:58i'm gonna break you physically if you're still champion next week because if you touch me you're
21:04stripped of the title in buffalo you people are animals living here put my feet up i used the
21:10bathroom i checked out some sentimental items from your wife brandy from your children there's one item
21:17that really stood out to me more than any other
21:21you know i wish dusty is still here today
21:28well i'd set cody off cody's got to be careful here mcintyre he's no longer champion
21:36cody
21:46well security trying to prevent Cody from
22:16a steel cage the American nightmare and the Scottish warrior your allegiance to Chelsea
22:24the beautiful madness will be unleashed in this one massive weight to carry Cole yeah
22:44that's a lot of pressure isn't it and look at Julia oh wasting a little time champion
22:48Julia very upset over the way that Chelsea green uh listen she should be a press secretary
22:52she should be the minister of propaganda vows to be very aggressive tonight as you feel
22:57oh no goodness kick to the spine oh no green now bounced off our announce table
23:03Julia's got to focus on the champion she caught up by Chelsea green it's Canada so Chelsea's
23:09extra popular and Julia now with a headbutt to green and now and look at this ruthlessness
23:16beautiful madness for some time now and she's showing it here tonight you call but I find
23:21it borderline disturbing and now Julia nice snap suplex Julia with a missile dropkick oh my god
23:31Julia just smiled champion on spaghetti legs this with a kick green now and green caught it with a kick
23:41Julia's down Chelsea's got a chance Julia face first but Julia gets the shoulder up at two
23:50but a headbutt counter by Julia oh look at that and now the fire gonna make her pay oh Julia from behind
24:01oh dropping her right on the back of her neck Julia ran right into that one Chelsea oh no and now Julia
24:11is setting her up now goes green new United States champion off the Northern Lights bomb
24:17Julia opportunity coming up this Monday how are you feeling about that result we've been waiting a long
24:29time to get our hands back on the kabuki warriors it'd still be fully worth it fortunately for us they
24:34are they'll be coming home with us and we will finally be champions as much fun as we had tag teaming
24:43tonight the alliance is over once we get the titles you guys what you're next in line or something coming
24:50from experience we know the kabuki warriors can be a little sneaky just genuinely wanted to say good
24:56luck hmm does she mean that no but seriously we're next in line if you guys want seconds then it's gonna
25:02be our play and your pain see what you did there hmm the following is an ambulance match
25:14perhaps the most disturbing aspect of Alistair's Reese
25:21in a long rich history of WWE three stages of hell match turn with only one thing black from behind
25:39what black did to this man back in October along with Zelina blinded him causing a serious eye injury
25:45it's been oh some agony and black now with a big kick to the face use that stretcher as a weapon into
25:50the midsection of black and now priest again using the stretcher as a weapon dropping black not a
25:55conversation about who Alistair black is tormenting raised up on the top rope on Alistair black landed on
26:05the steps and now Meteora through the table a Dan Engler really has no hole in this matchup on a big day by
26:13black and priest driven to the map you win when you put your opponent in the back of the ambulance
26:17and shut both of the doors I mean three size could play a fact point because uh black is gonna have to
26:22be very strategic about that Damian priest now with a big clothesline turns black inside out full head of
26:28steam and he's got one and he sends black underwear go over our desk cold get out of here I'm something
26:33now a priest driven a spine first black now to the ribs of priest and a drive driving the chair to the spine
26:41the officials help us to do anything is black and now priest with a choke slam on the apron look at
26:48that he's launching black and black caught him with a big kick and both men are down all the way to the
26:55back of the ambulance yeah that was sending Zelina Vega on a mission into the ambulance and perhaps he
26:59does so on the stretcher and look at this and I don't believe priest has come to yet another Meteora this
27:05time out of the stretcher all the way to the ambulance almost uh trying to hang on trying to
27:11fight back when black hit the black mass to Damian Priest oh no no no no oh goodness that could be it
27:19of the end running for her life
27:25and take her out of the equation with riptide well Alistair black can't believe what just happened
27:33either his fists his feet his knees his elbows all weapons one door is shut both doors have to shut
27:41I think but not quite priest has a clutch in his hands it's supposed to be one of the ambulance
27:46crutch to his advantage right into the chest and now is priest's opportunity but again priest got a
27:52little too comfortable and that's gonna make him pay and again fighting back the dog oh fire extinguisher
28:01the ambulance oh no fireball by priest there's still more punishment to be issued
28:09black driven into the side of the ambulance and now driven uh-oh priest driven spine first
28:18mercy in the ambulance match and a kick to the priest though back to his feet no no no no no oh no
28:26into the windshield what the hell is he going now I have no idea priest deliver more punishment
28:33no the punisher punishes black the priest has to get Alistair inside the ambulance for Damian
28:43Priest to send you shut the doors and end this thing graves and I'll see you monday night on the first
28:52walk