{"id":264071,"date":"2026-05-08T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:48:08","slug":"wwe-smackdown-live-updates-may-8-results-grades-and-highlights-tonight-from-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264071\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE SmackDown live updates (May 8): Results, grades and highlights tonight from Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"

“WWE SmackDown” hits Jacksonville, Florida tonight \u2014 Friday, May 8 \u2014 inside the VyStar Memorial Colosseum for the WWE Backlash 2026 go-home show. “Raw” storylines<\/a> primarily occupy the shine on this weekend\u2019s PLE, but “SmackDown” continues its build toward its next Cody Rhodes program<\/a>, which was teased last week.<\/p>\n

Gunther returned to attack Rhodes after the latter\u2019s win over Ricky Saints on last week\u2019s \u201cSmackDown.\u201d<\/a> \u201cThe Ring General\u201d now appears firmly moved over to \u201cSmackDown\u201d to pursue the Undisputed WWE Championship, as he\u2019s advertised to appear tonight.<\/p>\n

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Only two matches are currently advertised for \u201cSmackDown\u201d in Jacksonville, starting with Tiffany Stratton\u2019s first U.S. title defense. Rather than rematching Giulia, whom she dethroned, Stratton will take on Giulia\u2019s partner-in-crime, Kiana James.<\/p>\n

The other currently booked match on \u201cSmackDown\u201d belongs to Rhea Ripley, who will align with forever-enemy Charlotte Flair and Flair\u2019s bestie, Alexa Bliss, in trios action. They\u2019ll take on the new incoming faction, Fatal Influence \u2014 Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley and Lainey Reed.<\/p>\n

Although Randy Orton, Jade Cargill and Drew McIntyre did not appear last week when advertised, they are once again listed for tonight.<\/p>\n

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Check out the full “WWE SmackDown” lineup below, which starts at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network:<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s U.S. Championship: Tiffany Stratton (c.) vs Kiana James<\/p>\n

Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss vs Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid)<\/p>\n

Appearances from Gunther, Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn, Trick Williams, Drew McIntyre, Jade Cargill and Randy Orton<\/p>\n

For complete coverage of “WWE SmackDown” on USA, follow along with Uncrowned’s live blog below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“WWE SmackDown” hits Jacksonville, Florida tonight \u2014 Friday, May 8 \u2014 inside the VyStar Memorial Colosseum for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113827,78048,113825,116,118,117,78054,113830,113831,113829,113828,107351,113826,78049],"class_list":["post-264071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-alexa-bliss","tag-charlotte-flair","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kiana-james","tag-rhea-ripley","tag-ricky-saints","tag-tiffany-stratton","tag-vystar-memorial-colosseum","tag-wwe-backlash","tag-wwe-championship","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}