Latest SmackDown Results 2024

WWE SmackDown is one of the two flagship programming by WWE alongside RAW. Also known as Friday Night SmackDown, the show has been airing live on television since April 29, 1999, as SmackDown!. Upon its debut, it aired on UPN, and that too on Thursday Nights. It was moved to Friday Nights on the 9th of September in 2005. The event has aired on Fridays for the most part since then. It had once moved to Tuesday in 2016 before once again going back to its current schedule in 2019.

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SmackDown Results - May 3, 2024 - WWE Draft 2024

WWE SmackDown takes place every Friday Night 8–10 p.m. ET on Fox Sports. It has been the most viewed pro-wrestling weekly programming for a couple of years now and averages around 2 million viewers per episode. The blue brand features about 3 to 5 matches per episode and is known for the in-ring quality of these matches. The results for each and every episode of WWE SmackDown are updated here on Sportskeeda.

The results of latest SmackDown are:

Highlights of WWE SmackDown May 3, 2024

A-Town Down Under still the champions

Austin Theory and Grayson Waller defended their WWE Tag Team Championship against The Street Profits on the go-home episode of SmackDown before Backlash. In the main event, the champions retained their gold after 8 minutes of back and forth match.

Paul Heyman drops a bombshell

On the April 26 episode of SmackDown, Paul Heyman revealed that Roman Reigns had pulled himself off the WWE Draft. However, on the May 3 episode, he revealed that Heyman had not talked to Reigns ever since their loss at WrestleMania XL. Further, it was Heyman and not Reigns who had pulled The Tribal Chief out of the WWE Draft.

The Eight Woman Tag Team Match

Bayley is set to take on Naomi and Tiffany Stratton at Backlash France while Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill will take on Bayley's former friends Asuka and Kairi Sane for their titles. The seven women were then joined by Dakota Kai in a Eight Woman Tag Team Match at SmackDown. Belair, Cargill, Naomi and Bayley won the match after 10 minutes of brawl.

WWE SmackDown History

During the peak of Monday Night Wars between WWE and WCW, the latter had also set up a secondary weekly programming named WCW Thunder which aired on Thursday Nights. This allowed the rival company to let out more content than WWE. In response, McMahon's company decided to create its secondary weekly programming. On April 29, 1999, WWF SmackDown made its first appearance and officially debuted on UPN on the 26th of August that year. The name for the show was derived from "Layeth the SmackDown", which was a popluar catchphrase of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. SmackDown was initially meant to be a only female wrestling brand, but due to the lack of interest in the division at the time, it was simply promoted as WWE's Secondary programming.

After WWE acquired WCW in 2001, its roster size had gotten too big because it had also acquired the majority of WCW's talent. As a result, it decided to split its roster into two halves between RAW and SmackDown. It organized the first-ever draft in 2002. The show was switched to Friday Nights in 2005. SmackDown is most prominently known as Friday Night SmackDown and has aired on Friday Nights for most of the time.

Between 2005 and 2011, SmackDown switched between multiple TV deals and the brand extension was dropped that year. A few months later, SmackDown became the 2nd longest-running weekly episodic television programming only behind Monday Night RAW. The show returned to Thursday Nights in January 2015. WWE announced the return of brand split in 2016 and the show was subsequently brought to Tuesday Nights and was renamed SmackDown Live! It remained on the Tuesday Nights up until 2019. In 2019, the show was moved to Fox and shifted back to Friday Nights, where it currently airs.

WWE's former Chairman Vince McMahon sold the company to Endeavour Group in 2023. The Endeavour Group also owns UFC. Following the sale, SmackDown started premiering for the first time without McMahon family having majority ownership in the company. On September 21, 2023, it was announced that from October 2024, SmackDown will start airing on USA Network. The agreement between WWE and NBC Universal is valued at around $1.4 Billion.

Broadcasting History

WWE SmackDown Roster

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WWE SmackDown Current Champions

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