WWE SmackDown Results
March 20, 2026
Raleigh, North Carolina (Lenovo Center)
Results by: Roy Nemer of Wrestleview.com
WWE SmackDown kicks off with highlights of last week’s contract signing between Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.
Live in the arena, we cut to the commentary team. We cut to Jelly Roll arriving at the arena but WWE officials are running outside. We see a car crash outside. Drew McIntyre pulls Jacob Fatu from the car windshield and begins hitting him with right hands and slamming him onto the hood of his car. WWE officials grab Drew and break it up.
Back in the arena, out comes Drew McIntyre. He says the only place he should be wrestling is the main event of WrestleMania and that was taken from him. Drew gets in the ring and says he is there to fight. Out comes Nick Aldis with security and he asks Drew what is wrong. He says every opportunity was given to Drew and he still acts like a maniac. He says Drew talks about being on the way to WrestleMania, the only way he is on his way to is unemployment. Drew says he tried to quit but they would love that. He says he has a better idea. He says Nick’s son Donovan should be ashamed of his corporate stooge of a father.
Out comes Jacob Fatu and Drew throws him into the barricade. Drew grabs Fatu but Fatu throws him into the ring post and into the ring steps. Fatu throws Drew over the announce table. He places Drew onto the announce table but WWE officials break it up. Fatu walks through the fans and back runs back towards the table. Fatu jumps onto the barricade and onto Drew through the table.
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WWE Tag Team Championship match – Tama Tonga and JC Mateo (c’s) vs. Damian Priest and R-Truth
The bell rings and we are under way. Mateo and Priest start the match. Priest with a slam followed by a shoulder tackle. Tonga Loa gets on the ring apron and that distracts the referee.
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Back from commercial, Mateo with right hands followed by a standing moon sault. He goes for the cover but Priest kicks out. Mateo runs towards Priest but Priest with a kick. R-Truth is tagged in and he lands right hands on Mateo. In comes Tama Tonga and Priest but they fight to the outside of the ring. R-Truth with the STF but Solo distracts the referee. Tala Tonga pulls R-Truth and chokeslams him on the ring apron.
The lights go out and come back on. Out come The Wyatt Sicks and they fight with the MFTs. R-Truth with a side kick onto Mateo. Priest with a clothesline on Tama Tonga. R-Truth with the AA on Mateo. He goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winners: New WWE Tag Team Champions, R-Truth and Damian Priest
Cathy Kelley is backstage with the Bella Twins. They talk about how they are going to win the Women’s Tag Team Championships. In come Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss eating ice cream. Flair tells them that they are selfish and that they have next.
We cut to Candice LeRae with Johnny Gargano and Gargano is laying down. In comes Danhausen. He asks her for $20 and she gives him the $20 and he leaves. The Motor City Machine Guns pass behind her and they walk away.
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Back from commercial, Cathy Kelley is with Sami Zayn. He says he should be fully focused on his match tonight against Aleister Black but he can’t stop thinking about Cody Rhodes. He says Cody looks up to Randy Orton but last week’s show ended with Orton having the title.
In comes Trick Williams and he says that he sees Zayn hurt but when life gives you lemons, you get your lemon pepper steppers and you dhut up while the grown folks are talking. Zayn challenges him to a match and Williams says he will check. Williams tell him that maybe he will watch Zayn’s match and give him some pointers.
Fraxiom vs. The Motor City Machine Guns
The bell rings and we are under way. Shelley and Frazer start the match. Frazer with a drop kick. Axiom is tagged in and as is Sabin. The Motor City Machine Guns double team Axiom. They hit Frazer off the ring apron. Axiom with a right hand onto Shelley. Frazer gets in and he super kicks Sabin.
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Back from commercial, Frazer with a splash off the top rope onto Sabin. He goes for the cover but Shelley breaks it up. Axiom is tagged in and they double team Sabin. Axiom goes for the cover but Sabin kicks out. Axiom places Sabin on the top rope but Sabin with a cross body. Shelley is tagged in and they double team Frazer who gets in the ring. Both teams in the ring and the Motor City Machine Guns are thrown to the outside. Fraxiom with suicide dives onto The Motor City Machine Guns. Frazer throws Sagbin into the ring. Axiom climbs the top rope but Shelley pulls Axiom down. Frazer goes for the cover on Sabin but Sabin kicks out. Frazer leans onto the ropes and out comes Candice LeRae who hits him with a right hand. Sabin rolls him up and gets the pin.
Winners: The Motor City Machine Guns
We cut to the outside and we see Randy Orton.
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Back from commercial, Randy Orton’s music hits and out he comes. He pulls a dented chair from the time keeper’s area and grabs a microphone. Orton places the chair in the ring and has a seat on it. Orton says for years, when his entrance music hit, everyone would sing along. What a feeling that is, the love that they show him and he tries to return it. He gives the fans high fives, he signs the action figures, replicas, titles. He will see a kid on his birthday and wish him a happy birthday. The love that he shows them, that he gets back, that puts a smile on his face. And that smile is the emptiest feeling that he has felt in his entire life.
Orton says he has been doing this a long time, longer than most but the reality is that nothing lasts for ever. He doesn’t want his legacy to be the smiles that he puts on their faces, he wants his legacy to be how many World Championship gold he has put around his waist. He says not too long ago, he won the Elimination Chamber and he was going to fight Drew McIntyre for the title. And he knew that he can be who he needed to be to beat Drew. But when Cody won, he didn’t know if he can be who he needs to be to beat Cody. He says he loves Cody like a brother but last week, Cody took that burden off his chest. Cody took that weight off his shoulders when he told him that he needed him to be the best version he can be. He needs him to be the viper, to listen to the voices. The problem with listening to the voices is that he is not always in control. Sometimes things can happen, sometimes he gets hurt, just like anyone else but he needs that killer instinct. He needs that to add number 15 to his legacy.
He looks at the WrestleMania sign and says that he will do it with the three most dangerous letters in all of entertainment, RKO. Orton says he hears voices in his head, they council him, they understand, they talk to me and they tell me that I am going to beat Cody Rhodes. He says the voices tell him that he will beat Cody Rhodes for the WWE Championship. They tell him he is going to beat Cody Rhodes for the WWE Championship and he is going to do it at the main event of WrestleMania.
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Back from commercial, Randy Orton is walking backstage and he stops in front of Matt Cardona. He asks Orton what that was last week, he says he knows he wants the title. Orton gets angry and he tells him he has the nerve to speak to him like that. He asks Cordona if he has any action figures to go play with. Orton hits him with a right hand and tells him to stay out of his business and that he wouldn’t understand.
Aleister Black with Vega vs. Sami Zayn
Before the bell rings, the lights go out and out comes Trick Williams. The bell rings and we are under way. Black with right hands but Zayn with right hands. Black with kicks. He goes for a right hand but Zayn with right hands. Zayn gets Black in the corner and climbs the second rope. He hits Black with right hands and kicks.
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Back from commercial, Black with kicks and right hands. He throws Zayn to the ropes and Black with a back elbow to the face. Black with a knee to the face and he goes for the cover but Zayn kicks out. Black with a knee bar onto Zayn but Zayn gets out of it. Black with a spinning kick to the side of the head. Black climbs the top rope and lands a meteora. He goes for the cover but Zayn kicks out. Black gets up but Zayn clotheslines him to the outside of the ring. Zayn to the outside and he throws Black into the barricade. Zayn throws Black back into the ring. Zayn with the exploder into the corner. Zayn goes for the Helluva Kick but Black rolls to the outside of the ring. Black is down in front of Williams. Zayn moves Trick’s foot out of the way. Zayn throws Black back into the ring and Williams throws a drink onto Zayn’s back. Zayn turns around and Williams sits back down. Zayn hits Williams with right hands. Zayn gets back into the ring and Black hits him with Black Mass. He goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winner: Aleister Black
Nick Aldis is backstage with Matt Cardona. He tells Aldis that he wants a match against Orton tonight but Aldis tells him that won’t happen. Cordona walks away and in comes Carmelo Hayes. Aldis tells him that the United States Champion open tonight is closed. Aldis walks away and in comes Ilja Dragunov. He tells Hayes that he has to take the shots in front of him. Hayes tells him that tonight, for one of them, it will be champagne and for the other, it will be pain. Dragunov tells him that pain will entertain.
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