by Get all the live updates, including match results and key highlights, from the WWE SmackDown December 5, 2025, episode taking place at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. In this post–Survivor Series: WarGames edition of the blue brand, the current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes is set to appear. Also, Alexa Bliss will face Kairi Sane in a singles contest.
On this Dec 5, 2025, edition of SmackDown, Ilja Dragunov will host another U.S. Title Open Challenge, and it will be interesting to see who answers it this time. The final of the “Last Time is Now” tournament between LA Knight and Gunther is also scheduled to take place on this show.
Event Details
- Company – WWE
- Brand – SmackDown
- Venue – Moody Center, Austin, Texas
- Arena Capacity – 15,000 people
- Date – December 5, 2025
- Start Time – 8 PM ET (Friday) / 6:30 AM IST (Saturday)
Complete Results – Winners and Losers
- Ilja Dragunov retained the US Title by defeating Carmelo Hayes in the US Title Open Challenge via pinfall
Highlights and Major moments
- At the start of the December 5, 2025 episode of WWE SmackDown, Drew McIntyre arrives in a white Dodge Ram truck and gets immediately confronted by General Manager Nick Aldis and security. Aldis orders McIntyre to leave the premises. As McIntyre begins to get back into his truck, Cody Rhodes suddenly attacks him from behind, with security quickly pulling Rhodes away. Rhodes then heads to the ring to kick off the show. Once there, he calls out McIntyre for recently invading his tour bus and labels him “WWE’s resident cockroach.” Rhodes declares that although McIntyre hasn’t beaten him, he has definitely broken him mentally. He then pleads with Nick Aldis to lift McIntyre’s suspension, saying he wants the chance to come back and “stomp the cockroach out” once and for all.
- Backstage, #DIY (Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano) are still in possession of Axiom’s mask as they discuss their plan to climb back to the top of the tag team division. Ciampa confidently declares that once he’s finished with Ilja Dragunov, he will become the new United States Champion. Carmelo Hayes interrupts, telling Ciampa to “reschedule that championship talk” because Hayes has the next title shot. He then calls Ciampa a jackass—pointing at DIY’s own T-shirt, which reads “Don’t Call Tommaso Ciampa a Jackass”—before smirking and walking off.
- In a pre-taped video package, Damian Priest cuts a promo and says he’s heard Aleister Black talk in circles for far too long. Priest declares that Aleister will not break him; he’s only delaying the inevitable. Priest warns that if Aleister wants to bring Zelina Vega into this, then he’s bringing Rhea Ripley.Rhea Ripley then steps into frame and says Zelina made a fatal mistake by poking the bear without realizing the bear would actually show up. Rhea tells her she just signed her own death warrant, and that she and Aleister are about to find out exactly why no one survives The Terror Twins.
- Backstage, Cathy Kelley is with Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss. Charlotte says she agreed to join Alexa’s WarGames team because it meant the world to her. Alexa adds that while WarGames definitely did Charlotte some good, the real win was how much stronger it made their bond. Charlotte smiles and says now the two of them are laser-focused on one thing: winning back the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships.
- Backstage, Cathy Kelly interviewed LA Knight. Knight said he didn’t want to keep repeating himself and declared that their last encounter is happening now between him and Gunther. He acknowledged that Gunther is a former world champion, but insisted he himself is an unstoppable force. Knight warned that if Gunther wants a fight, he’ll give him one—and he’ll drop him right on his head.
