Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "WWE SmackDown" on August 14, 2026, coming to you live from TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts!Tiffany Stratton will be putting the Women's United States Championship on the line for the first time since retaining against Jade Cargill at WWE Night of Champions on June 27 as she defends against Fatal Influence member Jacy Jayne. Jayne's stablemates Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley retained their Women's Tag Team Championship against Stratton and Interim Women's Champion Chelsea Green during last Friday's episode of "SmackDown". This provided Jayne with her title opportunity tonight, as per an agreement that all five women had come to in a verbal confrontation beforehand.Baron Corbin will be defending his United States Championship against former titleholder Carmelo Hayes in what will mark Hayes' first match on "SmackDown" since the July 10 edition of the show. After Corbin had retained his title against Hayes' former friend Trick Williams last Friday, Hayes blindsided Corbin with an attack backstage later that same night and informed him of their match tonight.Another title will also be on the line, as AAA World Tag Team Champions and War Raiders' members Ivar and Erik challenge Damian Priest and R-Truth for their WWE Tag Team Championship. The two teams met one another in a Winner Takes All Title For Title Match on the July 30 episode of "SmackDown", but the match ultimately ended in referee stoppage when all four men began brawling with one another.Additionally, titleholder CM Punk and Kevin Owens are both advertised to appear ahead of their Undisputed WWE Championship match next Friday. Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton are also scheduled to appear as well amid rising tensions between the two men over Orton costing Rhodes his Undisputed WWE Championship match against Punk at WWE SummerSlam Saturday on August 1 when he interfered.We are live! Wade Barrett and Joe Tessitore greet audiences at home as Nick Aldis is waiting in the ring to reveal he's reached a decision about Chelsea Green's Interim Women's Championship and broken orbital bone.
Green's music hits and she makes her way out. Aldis says he knows how hard Green has worked, but he can't let her compete with a broken orbital bone. An emotional Green tells Aldis that she's already healing and will do whatever she has to, then tells Aldis not to say what he's going to. Aldis asks Green to relinquish the Interim Women's Championship, but Green says she knew it was too good to be true. She says she was waiting for the other shoe to drop because everytime something good happens to her in the professional wrestling business, it's followed by something devastating.Green says Aldis knows how much she's sacrificed to be where she is and says she's left everything in the ring, then says she's put her face in birthday cakes and pies for people to laugh in her faces. She says she told herself every night when she went to bed that it would all be worth it, then says she made it. She says until someone takes the Interim Women's Championship off her, it's hers and heads up the entrance ramp after giving Aldis the Interim Women's Championship belt.Aldis stops Green and says he thinks he's doing the right thing as the "SmackDown" General Manager. He says as Aldis the man, he isn't doing the right thing and gives Green a week to get medically cleared and squared away. Green hugs Aldis and holds up her Interim Women's Championship, but GUNTHER's music hits and he makes his way out.GUNTHER asks Aldis about WWE SummerSlam, but Aldis says now is not the time because he's dealing with Green. GUNTHER tells Green that all she did at SummerSlam was climb up a ladder and bump into a door frame while he made a man tap out in front of his family and asks why he added Kevin Owens to the Fatal Four-Way Undisputed Number One Contenders Match at SummerSlam. GUNTHER tells Green to quiet down when she speaks, but Green tells GUNTHER to puff his chest at a woman and have a cute temper tantrum. She says she only sees one champion in the ring and it isn't GUNTHER, but Green's husband Matt Cardona runs out to stare down GUNTHER. GUNTHER says Cardona came all the way from catering to rescue Green and says there's nothing Cardona can do to him. Cardona clocks GUNTHER and rains down right hands on him.
Back from the break, the bell has rung and Cardona fires off forearms on GUNTHER in the corner. GUNTHER sends Cardona crashing into the barricade near the timekeeper' area and powerbombs him on the announce desk, then powerbombs him onto the ring apron and gets inside the ring.The referee begins a ten count, but Cardona slides into the ring. Green hops up onto the apron and distracts the referee, allowing Cardona to low blow GUNTHER and deliver Radio Silence to him. He goes for a pin, but GUNTHER kicks out and delivers a pair of powerbombs to Cardona. He cinches in a Boston Crab on him, and Cardona taps out.Winner: GUNTHERAfter the match, medical officials check on Cardona as The Irresistible Forces make their way out. Nia Jax says Green wants to be a fighting champion and asks why waste any time, then says she wants an Interim Women's Championship match due to being screwed out of two qualifiers for the Interim Women's Championship SummerSlam Ladder Match. She says if Green doesn't give her what she wants, she has a history of breaking faces. Tiffany Stratton's music hits and she runs out to the ring to come to Green's aid. Lash Legend delivers a Bear Hug, and Jax connects with a leg drop on Stratton.Hard refresh this page for updates ctrl + F5 on Windows; Cmnd + shift + R on Mac
