WWE SmackDown!
Warning : The follow copy has SPOILERS for WWE SmackDown ( Feb 14 , 2025 )
WWESmackDownis a " can not miss " event this week , after news broke that The Rock will return toSmackDownin New Orleans , LA . What will he have in depot , and will it have sedate upshot for WWE Champion , Cody Rhodes ? Elsewhere , Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu will set about to restore their bridges , as they team up to look Damian Priest and Braun Strowman .
WWE Women ’s Champion Tiffany Stratton will face Candace LeRae , with Trish Stratus and Nia Jax join them atElimination Chamber . Jimmy Uso will attempt to take down the Scotch Warrior , Drew McIntyre , and WWE Tag Team Champions DIY defend their title against Pretty Deadly .
WWE SmackDown Results - Feb 21st, 2025
The Rock Poses A Big Question To Cody Rhodes
The Final Boss Gets Real Weird In A Bizarre Segment
Well , it is a just line that we have discover to rely the farseeing - term storytelling in WWE , asThe Rock cater an unbelievably weird section with WWE Champion , Cody Rhodes . Setting social media ablaze on Thursday evening , it was announce on that the Rock would be on this week’sSmackDown , with the smart money ( right ) being on him announcingWrestleMania 42will be in New Orleans . Then , from the odd snipping of Lil Wayne pink over his entrance music , it got weird . Real weird .
The Rock has been flip - flopping on his characterquite a bit since finish one of the proficient run of his vocation as The Final Boss in 2024 . Dangerous , contemporary , and cool , it was a brainy phylogenesis of his character that blur the agate line of fiction and fact , as the tyrannical Rock who tried to take Cody’sManiaspot behind the picture , took the audience ’s rejection of that idea and turn it into art . His appearance on dark one of Raw on Netflix was foreign , but this kick thing up several notches .
In this strange section , where Cody Rhodes was essentially just a prop for Rocky to spill at , The Rock said he want to own Cody Rhodes ’s souland for him to be The Rock ’s champion . He was evoking Illuminati principles , babble out of unsung closed doors he can open for him , and that The Rock can see after Cody and his family always . The Rock then severalise Rhodes he ’d meet him in Toronto at Elimination Chamber . If the engagement had n’t been so good , this scenario would be worry . It was a unknown section that left a slew of questions , but it had a really off - kilter ending . The Rock ’s intentions will become a lot decipherable on March 1st .
The Tag Division Keeps On Cooking
SmackDown’s Tag Teams Provided The Show’s Best Moment
possess the unenviable berth of follow The Rock , DIY and SmackDown ’s tag team class restored momentumto the show . It ’s been WWE ’s well - kept secret in recent calendar month , but SmackDown ’s tag team partition had the best segment of the night . Pretty Deadly challenged DIY for the Tag Team Championship after week of games and promises , only for things to be all about another of the variance ’s lead rival .
After two weeks of killer vignettes , The Street Profits wreck every contender and the champsin a predominant show . The Street Profits were lost in the shuffling as a vanilla , “ waving and kissing babies " , face team . Things had to change , and they have for the better . dismantle both contenders in the deed match , they then sent Motor City Machine Guns packing . In WrestleMania season , The earnings are the squad to catch in WWE .
Liv Morgan And Raquel Are Coming For The Gold
Raw’s Number One Contenders Create Hell On SmackDown
prognostication are just an educated opinion , butnothing about the frame of Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez feels right . They are yet to claim ownership of the attack , even though Bianca and Naomi seem wholly positive of their guilty standing . This column is not positive .
Since the event happen , Naomi has been our chief suspectand nothing has changed on that front . Tonight was a brusque and sweet segment , purely taking up fourth dimension to set up their massive shred Team title catch on Monday Night Raw . The four gentlewoman throwing hired hand is reasonableness enough to be delirious , but the possibility of us getting one stride closer to the answer to WWE ’s expectant whodunnit secret in late storage .
People will certainly be tattle about The Rockand his leftfield performance on this workweek ’s SmackDown . His declaration of want Rhodes ’s soul is something we have n’t seen before , and we ’ll get a clear estimate of what he mean atElimination Chamber . Elsewhere , the tag division continues to be the backbone of Friday NightSmackdown , and there may be a new name in that naval division with Melo Ca n’t Miz . Seriously . Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez will like their chances of leave Monday night Raw as tag squad champions and Tiffany Stratton ’s drug abuse of being at Charlotte Flair ’s substructure is something she ’ll want to stop happening ahead of their WrestleMania match .
