WWE SmackDown is live tonight (May 29, 2026) from Olimpic Arena Badalona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and it’s the blue brand’s go-home show for Clash in Italy.
Advertised for tonight: The Miz goes one-on-one with Spain’s own Axiom!
Plus, Cody Rhodes addresses GUNTHER ahead of his title defense at the PPV, and more! Get ready with our preview here! And, since this is a taped show due to the European tour, you can check out spoilers for the whole shebang right here!
Come right back here back at the normal start time of 8 pm ET. That’s when the SmackDown live blog will kick off in the space below once the show starts on USA.
WWE SmackDown RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR MAY 29
We are the lost, we are the ravaged, we are the unkind, we are the soldiers at the edge of time and we’re tired of making love, so I’m going to liveblog this here pro wrestling show for you, folks.
The show opens with the usual montage of talent arriving at the arena.
Commentary welcomes us to the show and introduces the Spanish announce team, who are seated at ringside tonight because we’re in Spain.
Jade Cargill, B-FAB, and “Michin” Mia Yim make their entrance.
Jade gets on the mic and says she has nothing to prove, she doesn’t ask for permission, she is one of one and she does what she wants. B-FAB agrees and says on Sunday Cargill is gonna beat Rhea Ripley because she’s the most dominant.
Michin says the future isn’t coming, it’s now, and–
She says Jade comes out here every single week trying to throw out her dominance, acting like 90% of her success isn’t from using people to try and make herself look better. The detail she continues to forget is that when it’s just the two of them in this ring, she beats her. So on Sunday, Cargill will end the night looking up at her true champion.
Jade asks if she hears how stupid she sounds and asks if she really thinks this division revolves around her. She says B-FAB and Michin are with her because they want a piece of power, and Ripley is so damn weak that she’s willing to work with people who don’t even like her.
Enter Charlotte Flair, in a seafoam green ensemble that I can best describe as curious. HUMONGOUS muppet fur sleeves on a crop jacket, IanMalcolmJurassicParkScientists.gif. Very good color matching aside from the boots that are more of a mint shade, though, good job.
Alexa Bliss joins her and they make their way to the ring together.
Flair tells Jade to not confuse her own hype for actual accomplishments, B-FAB pipes up and Charlotte says if she wanted to hear from one of Cargill’s accessories, she’d just ask. Bliss says Jade should actually accomplish things before running her mouth, because against the three of them, she has the resume of a rookie.
Cargill calls her a little girl and says she won’t be talked down to by Charlotte Flair’s ragdoll, and Alexa says she likes to give her opponents the courtesy of a warning, so this is her one warning to not make her embarrass her before her career has even started.
Enter general manager Nick Aldis.
He says if Jade is as confident as she claims to be and Alexa is as looking for a fight as she claims to be, let’s stop talking about it and start being about it and get a referee down here right now!
Or rather, after the break.
Alexa Bliss vs. Jade Cargill
Bliss unloads with elbows, jumping on her back for a sleeper hold, Cargill slings her out to the apron and Alexa takes a breather. Back inside, Jade catches a diving crossbody and swings it out into a backbreaker! Boot up in the corner, Cargill cuts her off with an elbow, military press. marching Bliss into the middle of the ring and dropping her!
Jade flexes for the hard cam, Alexa rolls away from an elbow drop, low bridge that sends Cargill to the floor! Fighting at ringside, Jade hits a powerbomb into the barricade and we go to break!
Back from commercial, back and forth, Cargill shoves her away to block the Sister Abigail, B-FAB and Michin trip Bliss up and Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley brawl them to the back! Alexa hits a DDT in the confusion, heads up top… KNEES UP ON THE TWISTED BLISS! Jade lands a vicious pump kick, double chickenwing…
Jade Cargill wins by pinfall with Jaded.
Post-match, Cargill brings a chair into the ring and hits Jaded on Alexa on the chair!
Charlotte and Rhea rush back down to make the save!
“American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes is interviewed backstage.
Before he can say anything he notices Sami Zayn standing nearby and calls the interview off.
Sami Zayn asks if he has anything to say and Cody says he has nothing to say to him. Zayn tells him he should start with “I’m sorry” because he didn’t want to have to fight his friend but once upon a time Rhodes took advantage of him trying to help by hitting Cross Rhodes. Cody tells him to knock it off, they’ve been in that situation before, but last week he watched him get choked out by GUNTHER.
He had a choice and he walked away. Sami says he wanted to help, every instinct said “help him” because that’s how he’s wired, he’s the last real good guy around here, and it took everything to not help because he realized he had to leave Rhodes there so he could learn a lesson.
Cody says he hopes he can teach him a lesson sometime too.
Nick Aldis is chatting with Danhausen backstage about how his equipment didn’t show up. Danhausen asks what he wants him to do and Aldis says he should go talk to the crowd and earn his human monies. Danhausen asks if he should do his science experiements, Aldis tells him to improvice, and Danhausen runs off and starts taking gear from the background and walking it into a “DO NOT ENTER” door as Nick realizes he’s made a mistake.
The Miz rolls up to complain that Kit Wilson didn’t make it past customs– too much moisturizer– and he won’t fight Axiom without his buddy, but Nick basically tells him tough shit match is happening next and we go to break.
Back from commercial, the Miz makes his entrance ahead of our next match.
Axiom, naturally enough, makes his entrance with Nathan Frazer at his side to get things going.
Axiom with an arm wringer, Miz with a side headlock, Axiom flips out of it and the lights dim for a moment. Back to a wristlock, the A-Lister revolves, Axiom lands on his feet, slide under leg pick, bridging over, Miz breaks loose with a back elbow and does a cartwheel to try and gain the adoration of the crowd.
Backing Miz into the corner with a kick, dropkick right on the button, leg kicks, the A-Lister decides to take a walk but Nathan Frazer blocks him at the base of the ramp! Axiom throws him back inside, Miz kicks his leg out of his leg and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Axiom snaps off a back suplex… SO CLOSE! Skull-Crushing Finale countered, Miz hits the basement DDT instead… AXIOM KICKS OUT! The A-Lister begs off, Axiom stomps the hand, chest kicks set up the buzzsaw kick, headed up top, diving crossbody… NO DEAL! Awesome Clothesline connects, Miz out to the apron, springboard in and he gets caught in a triangle choke!
Rings of Saturn applied, the A-Lister gets out, hits the slingshot powerbomb, Miz up top, the lights bling again and Axiom nails him with an avalanche Spanish Fly! Charging in…
Axiom wins by pinfall with Golden Ratio.
Damian Priest and Ron “the Truth” Killings are walking backstage.
Killings laments not being cleared and being told if he even goes out there his deductible is gonna skyrocket. Priest says it’s good he can’t get himself hurt, and Ron says the good news is he got him a tag partner for tonight.
Royce Keys rolls up, Truth says he got them a match tonight. Priest says he’s not tagging with anybody but Killings. Keys says he knew this would happen and tells Damian to have fun getting jumped tonight. Priest says he sees Royce being buddy-buddy with Solo Sikoa and doesn’t trust him, and this feels like a setup.
Truth says yeah, he set it up, and he tries his best to Bugs Bunny them into agreeing to tag against the MFTs tonight, but Priest isn’t quite buying it.
Sami Zayn is again confiding in Johnny Gargano about how he’s the only person that gets him.
Unfortunately, Candice LeRae is standing right there and things that he’s talking to her. When he says he isn’t, she flounces off and Sami steps closer to Johnny to keep talking.
Matt Cardona rolls up and asks if everything’s okay and says he knows things aren’t going Zayn’s way, but things haven’t been going his way and he isn’t being a little– he stops himself short and Sami unloads on him about feeling disrespected and tells Gargano he can’t let this stand. He turns to Cardona and challenges him to a match tonight. Matt says he’ll go talk to Nick Aldis and that’s that.
Damian Priest makes his entrance ahead of our next match alone, sending us to break.
Back from commercial, Charlotte Flair is tending to Alexa Bliss in the trainer’s room, cradling her tenderly as a medic rolls up with an ice pack.
She puts the ice on Alexa and goes to talk to Rhea Ripley.
Ripley asks how Bliss is doing, Flair says she’s hurting but angry and the next time she sees Jade Cargill– Rhea tells her not to worry about Cargill, because she’s gonna take care of her on Sunday. Charlotte says if Ripley doesn’t, she will, and that’s that.
Royce Keys makes his entrance ahead of our next match.
The MFTs make their entrance and we get going.
Damian Priest & Royce Keys vs. the MFTs (Talla & Tama Tonga)
Talla and Damian to start, Tonga laying kicks and headbutts in, whip reversed, big overhand chop from Priest! Off the ropes, shoulder block, Talla returns the favor and drops him! Big elbow sends him into enemy territory, Tama tags in and works him over. Damian gets away, tag to Keys, snap scoop powerslam on Tonga!
Big Pounce from Royce, Tama bails to the floor, Damian runs in and gets goozled by Talla, Keys breaks it up and they team up to clobber the big man and send him to the floor! Priest gives Royce an “okay you’re alright” nod and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Keys with elbows to Talla’s midsection, big right hand cuts him off, tag to Tama! Priest tags in shortly thereafter, in hot with punches, big pop-up drop, Talla in, Damian boxes his ears, corner back elbow, flying forearm sends the big man to the floor but Tama attacks from behind immediately after!
Lifting reverse STO from Priest, the match breaks down into “everybody do something cool” territory, Solo nails Damian from the apron while referee Charles Robinson is distracted getting Keys back on the apron! Ron Killings comes down to make the save and brawls with Sikoa! Solo clobbers him in the throat, Keys saves his buddy, Tama dives on him with an axhandle off the steps!
Talla has Damian up with the goozle…
MFTs win by pinfall with T-Bomb from Talla Tonga on Damian Priest.
The Miz approaches Nick Aldis backstage, threatening to sue him over a hazardous workplace.
He complains about the lights flickering and Aldis agrees that it’s no good and he’s gonna get to the bottom of it. The A-Lister says we know who’s doing it and conveniently they walk past Danhausen’s uh… office.
Danhausen says he’s put out all the fires, Miz runs in there and gets a fire extinguisher emptied at him, Aldis walks in and touches the body under the sheet but Danhausen tells him not to touch it and that sends us to break.
Back from commercial, we get a video package for the Jacob Fatu / Roman Reigns feud.
Commentary hypes up the Clash in Italy card.
Chelsea Green rolls up on Tiffany Stratton backstage.
Green gets all in on future plans for teaming together but Tiffany says she’s not coming out with her tonight. She appreciates what she did last week but that’s as far as it goes and it’s not that deep. Tiffany makes a good game of being okay with that and Stratton walks off.
Sami Zayn makes his entrance ahead of our next match and sends us to break.
Back from commercial, we get a hype reel for the El Grande Americano Original vs. El Grande Americano Nuevo apuestas match happening tomorrow night.
Matt Cardona makes his entrance to get things going for our next match.
Matt Cardona vs. Sami Zayn
Feeling out, Zayn grabs a wristlock, Cardona reverses, Sami counters with an arm wringer! Hammerlock, Matt reverses, shifts to a side headlock, shot off, drop down, leap frog, Zayn with an arm drag! Side headlock, shot off, drop down, Cardona passes Sami to the floor! Wrecking ball dropkick takes the action to the floor!
Back up on the apron, Zayn suplexes him inside, cover for two! Grounded punches, Cardona scrambles for the corner and Sami lands a vicious chop! Matt turns him around, chops, whip across, corner lariat, up to the second, missile dropkick connects and we go to break!
Back from commercial, arm-trap reverse chinlock from Zayn, Cardona gets him down and out in the corner, Broski Boot connects, charging in, Sami ducks under, Blue Thunder Driver denied, Tiger Driver… ZAYN LANDS HIGH ON HIS NECK BUT KICKS OUT! Cardona charges in for the Rough Ryder, Liger Bomb counters… NOPE!
Matt finally connects with the Rough Ryder… AND SAMI’S FOOT IS ON THE ROPES! Up top and jockeying for position, Zayn knocks him down, dives, nobody home, roll through, corner exploder suplex connects! Sami fired up, to the corner to line Cardona up… HELLUVA KICK! IT’S OVER!
Sami Zayn wins by pinfall with the Helluva Kick.
We get a hype reel for the King and Queen of the Ring tournaments.
Lil Yachty and Trick Williams meet up and walk backstage together to send us to break.
Back from commercial, Nick Aldis tells GUNTHER that he got this TV time for him and Cody Rhodes to say what they have to say but it’s important to keep it civil.
The Ring General asks if he thinks he’s an animal but says of course he understands how important this show is and he’ll keep it civil and only attack Cody with his words, And if WWE comes back to Spain, he thinks they should have the show in Madrid instead.
Trick Williams makes his entrance, flanked by Lil Yachty holding a kendo stick.
Yachty gets on the mic and says he’s the man with the money and connections who makes things happen, and tonight we’re all experiencing the Trick Williams campaign. Williams greets Barcelona and says he’s the man who’s been holding down the brand for quite some time. He rhymes about taking out Miz and Carmelo Hayes and says there hasn’t been a superstar to prove he’s the future of the business like Trick Williams.
With King of the Ring around the corner and Barcelona knowing a little something about royalty, he figured it only right if Trick Williams declares himself for the King of the Ring tournament.
He says King of the Ring is grown folk business and Trick is too little, so here’s what we’re gonna do. Tonight he’s gonna take care of Ricky Saints for getting in their business last week, and then he and Williams are gonna do the deal. Trick says he thinks Melo is being a little too melodramatic, a little too if this, if that.
He runs a number of counterfactuals from Hayes’ perspective and Carmelo says he’s gonna whoop that trick tonight.
He says he’s gonna take care of Hayes and then go after Trick and win the United States Championship. Williams says he makes him sick, Yachty adds that he sucks, and Trick gives him some championship advice– shut the hell up when Trick Williams tells you to shut the hell up. He tells Hayes and Saints to figure out who is better and then to come to him because he’s got no problem proving that Trick Williams is the king.
Ricky calls him the king of delusion and that he should take his lemon pepper steppers and– TRICK SLAPS HIM SO HARD HE SPIRALS OUT OF THE RING ENTIRELY!
Melo steps up to Trick and Yachty and they back down to send us to break.
Carmelo Hayes vs. “Absolute” Ricky Saints
Back from commercial, match joined in progress, whip across, drop down, leapfrog, big dropkick from Hayes and he flexes! Hanging Saints up in the ropes, Fade Away connects, Ricky recovers with some grounded punches, elbows in the corner, a little shimmy, taking him to the next corner, whip across, Melo cuts him off with a front kick and an enzuigiri!
Chops in the corner, mounted punches, Saints gets away and shoves him to the floor and then follows out after to throw him into the barricade a few times and send us to break!
Back from commercial, Hayes with a frog splash, knees up, Saints gets a nearfall off a bridging northern lights suplex! Tornado DDT countered with a schoolboy pin that nearly does it, diving DDT from Hayes gets another nearfall! Trading elbows, whip reversed, springboard elbow knocks Saints on his ass!
La Mistica gets another nearfall, Ricky spikes him with a DDT and gets one in return! Saints to the floor, Melo nails him with a tope con giro! Fighting on the floor, Ricky throws him over the barricade and he dives off it in return! Referee Ryan Tran counting…
Post-match, Hayes, who got in the ring right after ten, argues with Tran and Saints blindsides him and beats him down! Melo sends him packing with a kick and the Codebreaker!
We get a video package for the Brock Lesnar vs. Oba Femi feud.
Irresistible Forces roll up on Tiffany Stratton.
They tell Stratton she’s made a good decision not supporting Chelsea Green tonight, and when they’re done with her, they’re gonna go after Tiffany’s United States Championship.
And right now, we’re going to break.
Back from commercial, we get a hype reel for Blake Monroe where she talks about various women on the SmackDown roster and tells them to not get too comfortable because she’s coming.
Nia Jax makes her entrance ahead of our next match, joined by Lash Legend.
Chelsea Green makes her entrance to get things going.
Chelsea Green vs. Nia Jax
Collar and elbow, Jax slings her across the ring, biels her across in the other direction and mock salutes the crowd! Green hauls off with a slap, passes Nia to the floor, off the ropes, suicide dive connects and she salutes to send us to break!
Back from commercial, Jax gets a nearfall off a headbutt! Stunner gets Green out of a headlock, chop block cuts Nia off, charging in for a Rough Ryder but she counters with a Liger Bomb… SO CLOSE! Duck a charge, Jax goes shoulder-first into the post and Chelsea hits a missile dropkick!
Rough Ryder connects this time… NO DEAL! Lash Legend runs interference, Green sends her packing with a dropkick, Nia lays her out and drags her into the corner–
Jax climbs up the turnbuckles and Stratton comes through the crowd to clobber her with the title belt! Chelsea takes advantage…
Chelsea Green wins by pinfall with a lateral press.
Brie Bella and Paige are interviewed backstage.
Brie says the target on their backs have gotten bigger but they’re defending their titles more than anybody–
Fatal Influence roll up and Jacy Jayne asks why things aren’t about her and declares for Queen of the Ring.
Fallon Henley tells the tag champs to hold onto the titles tight because soon enough they’re never gonna hold ‘em again. Jacy says soon enough everyone will be under their influence.
Back from commercial, “American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes makes his entrance.
He asks Barcelona what they want to talk about in Spanish–
He says he’s not here to engage with any of the fans, he’s here to tell Cody exactly what he thinks of him. There’s one thing he figured out quite quickly, and it’s that this show has to be about Rhodes, and if it isn’t, he finds a way to make it about him. Nepotism gets him well ahead of everyone else and it’s very fitting that his name is the American Nightmare, because right now he’s the perfect symbol of the crumbling American dream.
He knows what Cody’s thinking but he’s talking about the concept of the American dream. What they told him as a boy is that to max out your life you need to leave home and go to America and through hard work and sacrifice you can earn a good life. And GUNTHER did that, but for Rhodes all that was just a phone call away, right?
Train to be a wrestler? One phone call. Contract with WWE? One phone call. He leaves and comes back? He bets that was one phone call. And all that makes Cody a little entitled brat. They might have the same profession but they’re nothing alike. Rhodes just can’t help himself, he’s gotta scratch the itch, fuel that ego with the fans’ approval and the office’s approval.
But for the Ring General none of that matters, because it’s unnecessary. All that matters to him is to be the best wrestler in the company and to protect this sacred sport from people like Cody who only care about themselves and for whom their biggest fan is themselves. He thinks Rhodes isn’t a champion but rather just a mark for himself.
Cody says GUNTHER is a liar, because every kid dreams of being a pro wrestler, carrying the chip, and not getting that attention, right? GUNTHER doesn’t want to be on the poster for Clash in Italy, to be on ESPN, the talk show appearances, the media, the weight of the title, a crowd that sings every word of his song, he doesn’t want that?
(Well given that he’s back to the Dvorak I don’t actually think he does want a crowd that sings the words to his song, Cody.)
Rhodes thinks he does want it, because if he didn’t he’d be talking to 330 pounds of GUNTHER at an indie show but he’s talking to this version of him here. Paul Heyman used to tell him about everything that would come with the title, the bandwidth he’d need, the directions he’d be pulled in, but it’s what he didn’t say.
And what he didn’t say is that this is addictive and GUNTHER is just as sick as he is. At Clash in Italy, he’s gonna come this close to getting that attention he desperately seeks, but then he’s gonna find out the worst thing that a pure sporting wrestler like him can ever find out, and it’s simple– he’s just not that good.
Cody reiterates that he’s easy to find and hard to beat and goes to leave but the Ring General pulls him back in! GUNTHER asks if he really thinks he’s a liar when he promised Bill Goldberg he’d choke him out and he did, and he promised AJ Styles that he’d choke him out and he did, and he promised Cody’s big role model and hero that he’d make him tap out, and he did.
And now, he’s promising him that on Sunday, he’s gonna choke him out and drop him like a wet towel and take this precious prize with him.
That’s the show, folks.
