Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "WWE SmackDown" on May 23, 2025, coming to you live from the Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Georgia!
The next two entrants in the 2025 Money In The Bank Ladder Matches will be determined tonight. Former multi time champion Charlotte Flair collides with reigning Women's United States Champion Zelina Vega and the newest edition to the "SmackDown" roster Giulia, while Aleister Black squares off with another former multi time champion Shinsuke Nakamura and former United States Champion LA Knight in a pair of Triple Threat Qualifiers. The winners of both matches will join Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss, and Roxanne Perez in the Women's Money In The Bank match, and Solo Sikoa in the Men's Money In The Bank match.
Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins of The Street Profits will be putting the WWE Tag Team Championship on the line tonight against Nathan Frazer and Axiom for the first time since they retained against #DIY and Motor City Machine Guns in a Triple Threat TLC Match on the April 25 edition of "SmackDown". Frazer and Axiom have racked up a number of wins since their arrival on "SmackDown" a number of weeks ago against the likes of Los Garza, Pretty Deadly, #DIY, and The Street Profits themselves in a non-title match on May 9.
Speaking of The Motor City Machine Guns and #DIY, Chris Sabin and Tommaso Ciampa will both be in action tonight as they go head-to-head with each other in the squared circle. The two men along with Alex Shelley and Johnny Gargano have had no shortage of issues with one another, dating back to a WWE Tag Team Championship match on the December 6 edition of "SmackDown" when Ciampa and Gargano turned their backs on Shelley and Sabin to dethrone them as titleholders.
Additionally, United States Champion Jacob Fatu will be joining forces with JC Mateo to square off with Jimmy Uso and Rey Fenix after the aforementioned Sikoa defeated Jimmy and Rey last week to secure his spot in the 2025 Men's Money In The Bank match.
We are live! Wade Barrett and Joe Tessitore greet audiences at home as we see a massive brawl break out between Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest backstage ahead of their Steel Cage Match tomorrow night at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event.
Tiffany Stratton then makes her way to the ring.
Stratton welcomes fans to "SmackDown", then says a lot can change in a year. She says she walked into the Money In The Bank match last year with all the pressure in the world on her, but she's standing in the ring as WWE Women's Champion and can say she's beaten Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania. She says she kicked Nia Jax's face off last week, then says in two weeks, someone will have the opportunity to do what she did at WWE Money In The Bank.
Alexa Bliss' music hits, and she makes her way out. She officially introduces herself to Stratton as a former champion and former Money In The Bank briefcase holder, then says she's had her eye on Stratton. She says she needs the Money In The Bank briefcase.
Flair's music hits, and she makes her way down to the ring. She says she's known for her humility, then says she's done everything to do in the wrestling business except win Money In The Bank. She says when she wins the briefcase and cashes it in to take back the WWE Women's Championship, then says she's ready to take back her spotlight and doesn't wait to do so.
Stratton calls Flair hypocritical, then calls both Flair and Bliss vintage. She says Flair and Bliss were the standard, but she's the upgrade and it will always be Tiffy Time as long as she's WWE Women's Champion.
Giulia then makes her way to the ring, staring down Stratton on the entrance ramp. Zelina Vega follows.
The bell rings and Flair delivers a knee to Vega's midsection. She dumps her out of the ring, but Vega rolls up Giulia. Flair breaks the fall, but Vega takes her down with a hurricanrana. She lands a second one on Giulia, but Flair catches Vega with a Fallaway Slam. Giulia delivers a spear to Vega that sends her crashing out of the ring, then connects with a neck crank on Flair and rocks her with a series of forearms and chops.
Flair fires off chops on Giulia, but the two women level one another with clotheslines. Vega looks to land a Tornado DDT on Giulia off of Flair, but Flair catches Vega and looks to land a double suplex on her with Giulia. Vega counters into a double DDT, but Flair sends her crashing off the apron with a forearm and delivers a boot to Giulia off the apron to send her outside with Vega.
Vega delivers a moonsault off the ropes to level both Flair and Giulia, then dumps them back in the ring and pins both of them. Giulia kicks out and breaks the fall when Vega pins Flair, but Flair fires off stomps on Vega in the corner. Giulia jams her boot into Vega's neck in the corner, then lands a double suplex on her in the center of the ring with Flair.
Giulia delivers a suplex to Vega and pins her, but Flair breaks the fall. Giulia and Flair shove one another, but Giulia fires off knees on Flair's midsection. Flair sends Giulia crashing onto the floor with a kick to her head off the apron, but Vega looks to take down Flair with a hurricanrana off the middle rope. Flair catches Vega, but Giulia levels both women with a missile dropkick off the middle rope.
Flair delivers a crossbody off the middle rope to level Vega nad Giulia, but Vega sends Flair crashing into the mat face first and cinches in a submission on her. Giulia breaks the hold with a running knee, but Flair levels Giulia with a strike before sending Vega crashing into the mat. Flair steps over Giulia and Vega, then ascends to the top rope. She lands a moonsault on both women and pins them at the same time, but Giulia and Vega both kick out.
Vega dials it up for a 619 on Flair, but Giulia levels Vega and connects with a headbutt on Flair. Flair then delivers a spear to Giulia and goes for a pin, but Giulia kicks out. Flair dumps Vega out of the ring and looks to cinch in the Figure Four Leg Lock on Giulia, but Vega prevents Flair from doing so with a meteora. Vega then delivers a Code Red to Giulia and goes for a pin, but Flair breaks the fall.
Flair looks to land a spear on Vega, but Vega moves out of the way and is sent crashing into the ring post. Flair levels Vega with a big boot and cinches in the Figure Four Leg Lock on her, but Giulia breaks the hold with a double stomp off the top rope. She dumps Flair out of the ring and delivers the Northern Lights Bomb to Vega for the win.
Winner: Giulia
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