WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Live Grades, Reaction and Highlights From January 3
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Invite to Bleacher Report’s live cover of the very first SmackDown of 2025 on January 3.
The brand-new year began with some title action as Nia Jax safeguarded her WWE Women’s Championship versus Naomi.
United States champ Shinsuke Nakamura was likewise in action versus Andrade, however their encounter was a non-title bout.
With about a month to precede the Royal Rumble, WWE has a great deal of time to fill, particularly to develop a card that will generally be consisted of the 2 Rumble matches. Today’s program provided us a number of tips about what we may see at the PLE.
Let’s have a look at whatever that occurred on Friday’s episode of SmackDown.
Cody Rhodes Opens 2025
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- McIntyre got a great pop. You might inform the crowd was shocked to see him.
- Opening with a talking sector is great, however it seems like this one used up two times as much time as it required.
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After a video summarized what took place recently in between Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens, The American Nightmare came out to open the program.
He exposed he is unclear to battle yet and blamed the piledriver he got from KO. Remarkably, it wasn’t Owens who came out to challenge him. It was Drew McIntyre. He did not attack Rhodes. He provided him a hug that appeared to capture the champ off guard.
The Scottish Warrior informed Rhodes he required a good friend, however Cody didn’t appear to care. Owens wound up assaulting Rhodes from behind and they battled up until authorities and security broke them up.
As opening sections go, this was good however absolutely nothing we have not seen before. Rhodes talked for a while, his fight was dealt with, and Owens tossed a couple of shots. It was organization as normal. Rhodes is proficient at bring a section like this however he didn’t have a lot to do here due to the fact that their match is still a month away. All they might do was fill a long time.
Grade: B-
Noteworthy Moments and Observations
Andrade vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
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Fresh off a look at Pro Wrestling NOAH a number of days earlier, Nakamura was back in a WWE ring to handle Andrade in a non-title match.
To the surprise of definitely no one, these 2 placed on a terrific program. Andrade and Nakamura understand each other well and have actually had the ability to offer us piece de resistances each time they have actually crossed courses for many years.
Andrade looked more concentrated than he has in rather a long time,
