WWE Smackdown 7/10/2026
Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/wwe-smackdown-732026.html
We are in Oklahoma City, OK. Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett are on commentary.
Nick Aldis is in the ring and welcomes us to the show. He says he feels justified for his physical altercation and he has been reinstated as Smackdown GM. He brings out CM Punk.
CM Punk has a black eye. He says he always wonders what he will say and says "I missed you" to the crowd. He says he's been negotiating with management, NBC and USA to get on Smackdown. He says those negotiations were expedited when he was told the champ needed a challenger.
He says he will be wrestling on Smackdown and defending the belt any chance he gets. He tells everyone that if you think you have what it takes to face the best in the world, come wrestle him. He says he heard what Sami Zayn said on social media. He says he will give Sami a rematch if he wants. He brings up Gunther as a challenger.
Cody Rhodes comes out. Cody asks how his eye feels. Punk does his "what do you wanna talk about?" line. Cody says the last time they stood in the ring, his eye was black and Punk mentioned championship opportunities falling out of the sky. Cody says there's those then championship matches that have been building for years in him vs Punk.
Punk says maybe they have both been avoiding this. Punk says he thought it would be in the main event of Mania and doesn't think they can keep away from each other for that long. Cody said he remembers telling Punk "just say when". Punk then says, "When?". Cody then says, "Summerslam". They shake hands. Nick Aldis says it's official and announces the match.
Cathy Kelly talks to Jade Cargill and friends. Jade says she's ready to go and will make Charlotte's life a living hell. Mich says you would think Charlotte would know better. Fab says Charlotte gets a front row seat to Jade snapping Bliss in half. Jade says she will put on a show and she's not responsible for what happens to Alexa.
Finn Balor vs Tama Tonga
Talla Tonga is with Tama.
Finn takes down TT and pounds on him. Finn punches him in the corner. TT flying back elbows him. Finn basement dropkicks him then lariats him over the top rope. Talla trips up Finn. TT nails Finn from behind. TT neckbreakers him. TT low sliding lariats him for 2. We go to PiP break and return.
Finn hits punches. Finn flying headscissors him into a russian legsweep. Finn flying forearms him. TT blocks an up and over and Finn final cuts him off of it for 2. Finn stomps him. TT spinning backdrops him for 2.
TT corner splashes him. Finn running slingblades him and john woo's him. Finn goes up top and Talla gets on the apron. Finn misses a top rope double stomp and TT lariats him from behind. TT hits a spinning pedigree for 2.
Finn cradles him for 2 then back body drops him over the top. Finn tope con hilos TT and Talla outside. Finn john woo's him again. Finn top rope double stomps him and pins him.
Thoughts: It was alright and it was athletic as expected. Finn winning clean kind of ends that whole feud though and I'm not sure where either guy really goes from here.
Carmelo Hayes is interviewed. He says all he has done is prove and all he does is deserve. He says he comes up short sometimes but he's only human. Melo says he doesn't miss and says it's not a catchphrase but a lifestyle. He says it's his moment to prove to Trick that he is "him".
R-Truth talks to Fraxiom. He has lost a bet on the World Cup and pays up. The War Raiders comes up to Truth and tells him to talk to Aldis. Jimmy Uso and Jacob Fatu walk in. Uso says he's looking for Solo. Truth says Solo is babysitting. Fatu asks Truth if he has seen Royce Keys. Damian Priest comes in. He says him and Truth have seen Keys and he's here. Truth asks Priest why he did that. Priest says Keys is not their problem.
Finn cradles him for 2 then back body drops him over the top. Finn tope con hilos TT and Talla outside. Finn john woo's him again. Finn top rope double stomps him and pins him.
Thoughts: It was alright and it was athletic as expected. Finn winning clean kind of ends that whole feud though and I'm not sure where either guy really goes from here.
Carmelo Hayes is interviewed. He says all he has done is prove and all he does is deserve. He says he comes up short sometimes but he's only human. Melo says he doesn't miss and says it's not a catchphrase but a lifestyle. He says it's his moment to prove to Trick that he is "him".
R-Truth talks to Fraxiom. He has lost a bet on the World Cup and pays up. The War Raiders comes up to Truth and tells him to talk to Aldis. Jimmy Uso and Jacob Fatu walk in. Uso says he's looking for Solo. Truth says Solo is babysitting. Fatu asks Truth if he has seen Royce Keys. Damian Priest comes in. He says him and Truth have seen Keys and he's here. Truth asks Priest why he did that. Priest says Keys is not their problem.
Nick Aldis is on the phone with Sami Zayn. He says he knows Sami is on a mental health break. Nick says he has the authority to make Punk vs Cody. Gunther comes in and smacks the desk. Gun says Nick made a big mistake and he's here to give him a chance to fix this. He says Nick knows he should be in the ring with a champion. Gun says he will give him until the end of the night to fix this. Nick says he will take it under consideration.
Jimmy Uso and Jacob Fatu are in the ring. Jimmy tells Solo Sikoa to come out. Royce Keys comes out instead. Jimmy says he doesn't look like Solo. Keys says last week Jimmy mentioned his name and mentioned his name again this week.
He says Jimmy's family business is affecting everyone and starting to affect him. Jimmy says it's all about OTC business tonight. Keys says it's the OTC who isn't here. Fatu says Keys can say anything else about anyone but don't go there and bring up the OTC. Keys says it doesn't go like that.
Jimmy tells Keys he's not part of this family. Keys says blood doesn't make you family, loyalty does. Keys says Uso's family has brother vs brother and cousin vs cousin. Keys says he wishes he could call and text his family as he has no family. He says Fatu has been his brother for 14 years and he refuses to let him fall.
Jimmy says Keys will cross a line he can't come back from. Keys says he didn't come here to fight. He says it looks like there's a line right there and he just crossed. Jimmy threatens a beating and says "we". Fatu says there's no "we" here and says it's on Jimmy. Fatu says he's out. Jimmy then tells Keys he crossed the line. He asks Nick Aldis to come out and make this office.
Jimmy tries to hit Keys, gets caught and is lariated. Keys lariats him over the top. We go to break and return.
Royce Keys vs Jimmy Uso
Uso side headlocks him and Keys shoulders him over. Keys hits punches in the corner. Keys lariats him over. Keys suplexes him. Keys misses a charge outside and goes into the steps. Uso top rope crossbodies him then chinlocks him. Uso spinning enzugiri's him and Keys crossbodies him.
Keys is sent out and Uso topes him. Keys is thrown over the commentary table. We go to break and return. Keys yanks him into a powerslam. Keys slams him on the commentary table. Keys is sent into the post. Solo Sikoa comes out and gets behind Uso. He hits him and goes for the samoan spike. Jacob Fatu comes out. Fatu and Solo fight. Fatu does the tongan death grip to him an d throws him over the rails. Keys is distracted and Uso spears him. Uso pins him.
Thoughts: It didn't get much at all and was nothing special. The big development was the outside shenanigans here with Fatu and Solo. I didn't like Keys losing here, but he's rapidly losing stock and I think he's going to be counting the lights a lot more in the future.
Fatu and Solo get in the ring after. Fatu stomps on Solo in the ring. Keys stops Fatu and they argue. Fatu superkicks him and sentons him and gets a pop for it.
Fatu puts a chair on Solo's head but doesn't hip attack him. Fatu tells him he better listen to him and says next time, he won't stop. Apparently, Fatu asks him to speak with bloodline on Raw.
We see Sami Zayn flipping out after losing his title on Raw. He complains about Punk coming back and getting a title shot.
CM Punk is interviewed. Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae interrupt. LeRae says Sami is annoying but didn't give up on Johnny. He says Sami was the voice of the voiceless and here was hope with him as champ. She says they stole that from them. Punk tells them to stop what they are doing and get back in the ring. He says this isn't working.
CM Punk and Finn Balor talk. Finn says he was hoping he'd run into him and says welcome to Smackdown.
Fatal Influence do a video. They say it was satisfying to see Lainey beat up Brie Bella last week. They says they will be the center of attention in MSG next week and says it may be the most night of their careers. They say Paige and Brie should be worried as their time is up and they know it. Jacy says they will fall under their influence.
Jade Carill vs Alexa Bliss
Jade shoulders her. AB jumps on her back with a sleeper and Jade throws her over. AB clips her from behind and meteora's her in the back of the neck on the ropes for 2. Jade backbreakers her.
We go to break and return. Jade misses a pump kick and AB hits her from behind. AB hits punches and dropkicks her. AB headhunters her for 2. AB slaps her. AB's crossbody is caught. AB high kicks her. B-Fab trips Bliss and Flair pulls Jade's throat over the top rope. AB gets a 2 count on Jade. Flair fights with Mich and Fab outside and is sent into the post. Jade pump kicks AB and hits jade end on her to win.
Thoughts: Similar to the last match, it was short with a bunch of shenanigans. This was little of note.
Jade gets a chair after, Flair goes after her and Flair fights off Jade's crew. Jade pulls AB's arm back with the chair and bangs it off the mat. They focus on AB's arm and make it seem like it's bent the wrong way.
Trick Williams and Lil Yachty talk in the back. Yacthy gives him a legacy title. The title has white fur on it. Trick loves it. Yachty says he needs Trick to give Melo a diamond butt whooping to Melo.
Bliss is helped out in the back and thinks her arm is broken. They go into the trainer's room.
Trick Williams vs Carmelo Hayes
Trick throws him down backwards off the lock up then throws him in the corner. Trick shoulders Melo over. Trick stomps him in the corner. Ricky Saints is watching on TV in the back. Trick hits chops and Melo dropkicks him. Melo springboard twisting lariats Trick.
Trick flapjacks Melo then backhands him down. We go to break and return. Trick pop-up uppercuts Melo. Melo la mistica drops him for 2. Trick hits leg lariats. Trick uranage's him for 2.
Melo flips out of an AA. Melo boots him out of the corner and 2nd rope diving ddt's him for 2. Trick jumping neckbreakers him for 2. Melo frogsplashes him for 2. Melo rolls him up for 2 and Trick gets a pin attempt in. Melo superkicks him. Melo misses a top rope splash and Trick spinning facekicks him for 2.
Melo knocks Trick off the apron. Melo pushes Trick into Yachty outside. Melo hits a first 48. Melo goes up top and Baron Corbin grabs Melo. Baron pulls Melo down for the DQ then beats up Trick.
Thoughts: I'm getting a little tired of Melo/Trick. There was a lot of spinning around and flipping here and I just thought it was average. Baron Corbin returning is totally out of left field, though we all knew he was returning to WWE as there were rumors and he had just left MLW in storyline.
Baron pounds on Trick after and sends him into the post. Baron hits end of days on Melo and Trick. Baron then holds the title up.
Gunther comes out to talk. He calls out Nick Aldis. Nick comes out. Nick says he will give him what he wants. He says he will give him Cody and Punk at MSG. He says it'll be Cody Rhodes and CM Punk vs Gunther and Sami Zayn. Gunther tells him to fix his mistake. Nick says the only mistake he needs to fix is not thinking he would be a pain in the butt if he signed him. Gunther hits him from behind and hits elbows on him. Gunther lariats him down. Officials then come out to stop this. Gunther facekicks Nick down then grounded chokes him. Gunther lets go then puts it back on. He then puts it on a third time.
Cody Rhodes comes out and the show ends.
Overall thoughts: I didn't really think this was a good show at all. Punk/Cody being set up is an interesting match but like they said, that's a Mania match and they should wait to do it at Mania. Other than that, it wasn't that interesting of a show. Obviously Aldis is a wrestler, but he's just a GM in the WWE Universe and Gunther fighting a GM is a far way away from Cena and Goldberg. Baron Corbin is back and I do think WWE could use him in the midcard right now. We had a bunch of midcard matches otherwise that didn't get the time to be anything special and lots of Bloodline stuff that I personally don't care too much about. I'm definitely concerned about Summerslam as I do not think they have the creative or talent right now for a 2 day supershow. As for Smackdown being 2 hours again, I think we saw the pros and cons of it here. The show was much more compact and not as much time was wasted, but the matches were all shorter and a lot of the lower ranked wrestlers didn't appear. I'd give this show a 5 out of 10 as a lot of the stuff they are doing made sense, but I didn't find it to be that interesting. It was average.
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