WWE SmackDown Results
April 17, 2026
Las Vegas, Nevada (T-Mobile Arena)
Results by: Roy Nemer of Wrestleview.com
WWE SmackDown kicks off with a WrestleMania video package.
Live in the arena, a red truck pulls up and out come both Randy Orton and Pat McAfee. In comes Nick Aldis and he hands them a contract. Pat tells him he reads through his own contract, he is a self made billionaire. Orton tells them to handle it and he will go to the ring. Pat gives Nick the keys and he signs the contracts.
Randy Orton’s music hits and out he comes to the ring. Orton says he will be the first one to admit it. He doesn’t need Pat McAfee. The truth is that he wants him. Orton says Pat is the only straight shooter in the company, he doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear, he tells him what he needs to hear. And what he needed to hear was all along, he just had to be him. He says they were all set, he is listening to Pat, here comes WrestleMania. He wins the Chamber and he is facing Drew McIntyre for the title. He says there is no love lost with Drew, he knew what he needed to do to win the title. But then, Cody won the title back. He says he and Cody are friends, he couldn’t be who he needed to be, he couldn’t hurt his friend. And then, Cody gave him permission to be him. He asks who is Cody to give him permission to be himself, he wrote the book on being him, he is the viper.
He says this is how a friendship works. There is give and take but with Cody as a friend, all Orton ever did was give and all Cody did was take. Tomorrow, they main event night one of WrestleMania. But two years ago, at WrestleMania, Cody was in the main event of night one. Solo’s Bloodline is all over Cody, as a friend, he is there to have his back. But all he got was going through a table. He says Cody gifts a WWE Championship match to his friend at the time, Kevin Owens.
Orton says Owens turns on Cody and as his friend, he is there by Cody’s side. He tries to talk sense into Owens. But he got dropped on his head in the ring through a piledriver. He says that could have been it. All Cody does is take, take, take. He says Pat has done more for his career and legacy than Cody has done in half of a lifetime. He says Cody thinks that Pat hurts his legacy. He says hurting him these last few years have hurt his legacy more than anything else.
He says at WrestleMania, he will right the wrongs, take number 15 home where it belongs. And he will do it with the three most dangerous letters in all of sports entertainment, RKO. Orton’s music hits and he heads to the back.
We cut to the back, Aldis is with Pat and Pat is in his truck. He says great work Randy and Randy gets in the truck. Pat says that’s what a WWE superstar looks like. And tomorrow, everything changes for the better and he put in a good word with the higher ups with Nick. He says see you tomorrow marks, life is about to get better and he drives off.
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Street Fight – MFTs vs. The Wyatt Sicks
The bell rings and we are under way. The Wyatt Sicks throw the MFTs to the outside of the ring. Lumis and Gacy with dives to the outside of the ring. Rowan runs to the ropes but Tonga Loa drags him to the outside of the ring. Tala Tonga with a right hand onto Rowan and Tonga Loa grabs the steel steps. He hits Gacy and Lumis with the stairs. He throws the steps onto Rowan.
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Back from commercial, Gacy with a clothesline onto Tama Tonga followed by a back suplex on JC Mateo. Lumis with a back suplex onto Solo. Gacy with a super kick onto Tala Tonga. Lumis and Gacy double team Tama Tonga. Gacy goes for the cover but JC Mateo breaks it up. JC with a German onto Gacy and a back suplex onto Lumis. JC with an overhead belly to belly suplex. Tala Tonga with a Samoan drop onto Uncle Howdy. Tala Tonga with a Samoan drop onto Gacy. Rowan with a big boot to Tala Tonga and he falls to the outside. Rowan with a suicide dive onto Tala Tonga. Rowan throws steel chairs and trash cans into the ring. Ucle Howdy and Rowan hit Solo with the trash can.
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Back from commercial, Solo goes for the running hip attack on Uncle Howdy but he moves out of the way. I come the MFTs but Uncle Howdy hits them with a steel chair. Nikki Cross gets on the top rope and lands a cross body onto Tonga Loa. Tala Tonga with a big boot onto Uncle Howdy. Solo with the Solo Splash onto Uncle Howdy. He goes for the cover but Gacy breaks it up with a kendo stick. In comes Gacy but Tala Tonga hits them with a double chokeslam. Rowan hits him with a chair from behind but Tala Tonga lands a double clothesline to the outside of the ring. Uncle Howdy goes for the Sister Abigail but Tama Tonga lands a reverse neck breaker. Tama Tonga goes for Cut Throat but Solo hits Uncle Howdy with the Solo Spike. He goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winners: MFTs
Solo and Tama Tonga look at each other and Tama Tonga is not happy.
We cut to the back and R-Truth is with Damian Priest. R-Truth tells Damian that Asuka cursed The New Day. Priest tells him it was Danhausen, R-Truth tells him Danhausen was last week. He says it was Asuka. He says Woods is sick, so sick that he turned Sammy Sosa white. Priest tells him that’s Grayson Waller. R-Truth tells him that Grayson Waller is from Australia. Priest tells him yes but R-Truth says they are talking about Xavier Woods and what does Waller have to do with this. He tells Priest he has to get it together, they have a tag team title match tonight and walks away. Priest says what.
We see a clip of Miz and Maryse renewing their vows but Danhausen is behind Maryse. He says he is the ring boy, best man and maid of honor. Kit Wilson is officiating and he says you may kiss the bride. Danhausen says you are cursed and they begin to argue. Maryse ends up face first on the cake. Danhausen tastes the cake and says vanilla.
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A Royce Keys video package airs.
We see clips of Drew McIntyre attacking Jacob Fatu last week.
The camera cuts to a police car with the sirens on entering the arena. The car parks on stage and out steps Jacob Fatu. His music hits and he stands on top of the police car. Fatu says that Drew wants to tell the world that Fatu is a criminal. Fatu says they can talk about his life all they want, he is not ashamed of it, he is not afraid of it and he does not live that life anymore. Fatu says Drew thought that putting him in cuffs in front of his family was going to embarrass him. But that didn’t. Even the police know that he is not the same guy anymore.
He says this is where Drew gets it twisted. He says tomorrow night, unsanctioned match, that means no Nick Aldis, no police, no security, no management, no army, no navy, the swat team can’t even stop him from beating Drew’s ass. He says the best thing about it is there is no one to save Drew. He tells Drew that he tried to put him back in that jail cell where he changed is life but the truth is he already put that in his rear view. And the truth is that when he is done beating his ass, that is exactly where he is putting Drew, in the back, in his rear view. He says at WrestleMania 42, you will see Jacob Fatu shake his dreads. He tells drew to get a calculator and do the match because at WrestleMania, he will dog walk his bitch ass. Fatu’s music hits.
We cut to the back and see Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair. Bliss says it has been a big year, she became a Tag Team Champion with someone who became her best friend. Flair says the cherry on top would be winning gold at WrestleMania. Flair says before that, they have to win tonight and get momentum. And no matter what, they will still be best friends. Flair says she knows, the gold is the friendship they made along the way. Flair says for real, their friendship is great but how good would gold be and Bliss walks away.
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WWE Tag Team Championship Match – R-Truth and Damian Priest (c’s) vs. Kofi Kingston and Grayson Waller
The bell rings and we are under way. Waller and Priest start the match. Priest with a big boot and he throws Waller in the corner. Priest with right hands and R-Truth is tagged in. Waller with right hands and Kofi is tagged in. They double team R-Truth and R-Truth is thrown to the outside of the ring.
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Back from commercial, Kofi is with right hands onto R-Truth. Waller is tagged in and he climbs the second rope but R-Truth pushes Kofi onto him. Priest is tagged in. Priest with right hands onto both men. Priest with a clothesline onto Waller. He goes for the cover but Kofi breaks it up. In comes R-Truth and he lands shoulder tackles onto Kofi. Priest body slams Waller. Priest and R-Truth with the double five knuckle shuffle. Priest and R-Truth with the 1D onto Waller. Priest goes for the cover and gets the pin.
Winners: Still Tag Team Champions R-Truth and Damian Priest