
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown (January 31, 2025) is live from Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett are commentaries.
-Championship Match: Chelsea Green defends against Michin
-Motor City Machine Guns and Los Garza vs. WWE Tag Team Champions DIY and Pretty Deadly
-Women’s Tag Team Champion Naomi vs. Liv Morgan
-Jimmy Uso vs. Carmelo Hayes
-Kevin Owens segment
WWE Friday Night SmackDown Results
Tonight’s WWE SmackDown opened with some heavy promotion of Indianapolis with Michael Cole and Pat McAfee. Then, Joe Tessitore brings out Kevin Owens for an interview in the ring about the ladder match coming up tomorrow night for the WWE title.
Owens was upset about how Tessitore didn’t give him the interview last week. CM Punk interrupted Kevin Owens. Punk teases there is a possibility of a match between them if Owens wins the title tomorrow, and if he’s going to win the Royal Rumble.
Owens is open to the idea of beating Punk at WrestleMania, but he thinks it would be better if Punk just never gets to the main event WrestleMania. Ownes bring up Punk never main eventing WrestleMania that his dream never come true. Then, Punk roastes Owens by bringing up Owens five title matches at Royal Rumble and losing to Logan Paul.
Then, CM Punk calls out Kevin Owens for the fight but Owens leaves the ring backstage.
The Miz with Nick Aldis backstage. Miz was upset while talking to Nick Aldis and stuck his foot in his mouth about Andrade. Miz shocks that Andrade is behind. Both have words that are leading to a match for later and Aldis make it official.
Jimmy Uso defeated Carmelo Hayes by pinfall.
Women’s United States Championship Match: Michin defeated Chelsea Green (c) by disqualification after Green used a kendo stick on Michin.
Backstage, Bianca Belair and Naomi spoke about how one of them is going to win the Royal Rumble.
Damian Priest cut a promo in the ring about moving to the SmackDown roster. Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga interrupted, with Fatu saying he’s off the leash now. This led to a fight, wherein Priest was backed up by LA Knight.
Backstage, MCMG and Legado del Fantasma talked about how they don’t like each other, but they’ll have each others’ backs in their tag team match.
Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) & Los Garza (Angel and Berto) defeated #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) & Pretty Deadly (Kit Wilson and Elton Prince) by pinfall.
Naomi defeated Liv Morgan by pinfall. Raquel Rodriguez laid out both Naomi and Bianca Belair after the match.
Andrade defeated The Miz by pinfall.
Backstage, Damian Priest has a run-in with Santos Escobar (a failed attempt at a partnership), then R-Truth just to joke about it not being Raw, and LA Knight to say they’ll work together tonight, but it’s every man for themselves tomorrow at the Royal Rumble.
Tiffany Stratton bumped into Zelina Vega backstage. She then cut an in-ring promo that was interrupted by Candice LeRae to set up Nia Jax attacking Stratton from behind.
Damian Priest & LA Knight defeated Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga by pinfall. Fatu ended up getting the last laugh of the night by standing tall above Priest after a moonsault.