WWE SmackDown Results, live recap, and highlights: NEW CHAMPION CROWNED!! JADE CARGILL JUSTIFIED!! CODY RHODES CALLS OUT JOHN CENA!!

Thanks for joining us for an INTENSE three hours of SmackDown, folks! We'll see you next week for Monday Night RAW!!

Full Results:

Tiffany Stratton defeats Piper Niven via pinfall.
Pretty Deadly defeat The Motor City Machine Guns via pinfall.
Braun Strowman defeats Solo Sikoa via DQ.
Chelsea Green defeats Michin via pinfall.
Drew McIntyre defeats Jimmy Uso via pinfall.
LA Knight defeats Shinsuke Nakamura via pinfall.

Homage to legendary wrestler Meiko Satomura, Shinsuke hits Scorpio Rising

Charles Robinson blinded by Shinsuke Nakamura's red mist

Shinsuke Nakamura tries to disqualify himself

As Nakamura brings in a chair, Knight plants him face first on it with the BFT!! There's no ref...at first! A second one slides in and...1-2-3!!

LA Knight defeats Shinsuke Nakamura via pinfall.

Nakamura ducks a clothesline from LA Knight and sprays mist, but Knight ducks as well! Robinson is blinded as Knight hits the BFT! Nakamura hits Scorpio Rising, former NXT UK Women's Champion Meiko Satomura's finisher!

Knight's neck is targeted again with a roundhouse to the back of the head. He shakes off the damage, leaping up top to catch Nakamura with the Box Jump superplex! Big double jump elbow drop follows!

Knight goes for the BFT but Nakamura rolls to the floor. As Knight follows, the champ goes for a chair shot. Knight blocks it and goes to retaliate, only for referee Charles Robinson to stop him. Nakamura does the same, and Robinson pulls the chair out of his hands.

Nakamura avoids LA Knight's leaping superplex, crotching the challenger on the ring post. He follows with the high-angle inverted exploder, dropping Knight from on high right on his neck!!

Nakamura sets up for the Kinshasa, but the Megastar counters with a devastating clothesline!!

During the break, Nakamura gets back on top after dropping the challenger on top of the ring post and sending him crashing to the floor. They trade control back and forth, ending with Nakamura sending Knight shoulder-first into the steel steps.

Nakamura batters Knight with his patented offense. A series of sliding and running kicks. Knight counters a running attack in the corner and sends the champ to the floor. A wrecking ball dropkick follows, sending Nakamura to the ramp. YEAHH!!

Shinsuke Nakamura and LA Knight are up next. It's the second title defense for Nakamura since he won the title last year. His other defense? Against LA Knight.

The WWE Tag Team Champions #DIY claim that the Street Profits, despite being back for revenge, will never get the titles from them. They attempt to give the Profits and their dreams a moment of silence, but Byron Saxton ruins it.

Byron ruins a lot of stuff.

Shinsuke Nakamura promises to end LA Knight's dreams, and claims now is the perfect night to do so. The United States Championship match is the main event.

After the match, McIntyre attempts to jump Jimmy. Instead, he's attacked by Damian Priest. The King of the Streets lays out Drew and is forced off by security.

Drew ducks a clothesline from Jimmy after avoiding another Uso Splash and rocks Big Jim with a Claymore!!

Drew McIntyre defeats Jimmy Uso via pinfall.

Back from the break, Jimmy Uso plants Drew in the middle of the ring with the Samoan Drop. The running hip attack connects in the corner, but Drew manages to get up and stop the Uso Splash. Jimmy manages to block the superplex, sending Drew down to the mat. Drew hobbles on his leg as he's rocked with a superkick!!

Drew McIntyre's looking for blood tonight

Drew McIntyre and Jimmy Uso are out next. Jimmy rushes the ring and the fight is on. They brawl in and out of the ring, leading to a huge crossbody from Jimmy that sends them both crashing over the announcer's desk. We cut to a break before we can see anyone get up.

Backstage, The Miz and Carmelo Hayes are speaking to Nick Aldis. Melo mocks Randy Orton, claiming he was probably playing Fortnite while he was out. Orton appears behind him. "Fortnite? That's for kids man. I was playing Elden Ring."

Aldis makes it official. Orton vs Melo next week, The Viper's first match back since Kevin Owens took him out.

"I am holding this above my head as if it weighs NOTHING." Cody Rhodes is not backing down from the Greatest of All Time. If Cena wants some, he can come get some at WrestleMania 41!!

John Cena did give up. That's what Cody will tell his daughter. That's what many parents have told their kids around the globe since Elimination Chamber. Cody reminds us that Cena was there on that night at WrestleMania 40 when Cody won the WWE Undisputed Championship. Cena gave him a piece of advice that night. "It gets heavier every day."

Cody states that Travis Scott did, in fact, leave a mark on his face. That black eye. He says one day he'll tell his daughter that a great man he knew gave up one night and did this to him. That man being John Cena.

The question is...why? Why, Cena?

Cody Rhodes is out next. He places the belt at his feet before telling us the lie he told his kid about his face. "I ran into a wall."

Backstage, Andrade meets Humberto Carrillo after both Santos Escobar and Angel Garza blame him for their loss earlier. Andrade states that he deserves better. Is this the beginning of the end of this tag team?

Michin is able to pull a table into the ring and leave Green on top with Eat DeFeat!! A dive through the table SHOULD give Michin the win...but Alba Fyre saves Green and spikes Michin with the Canadian Destroyer on a pile of chairs!!!

Chelsea Green defeats Michin via pinfall.

During the break, Chelsea Green uses a rope to hang and choke Mia Yim on the floor!! That's disgusting!!

Piper Niven holds a steel trash can on Michin as Chelsea Green hits a Coast to Coast!! This match is INSANE!!

As Michin pulls out a table, a Philly favorite, Chelsea Green drops her with a Zig Zag and pushes the wood back under the ring!

While Green is repping Foley inspired gear, Michin's got some Philadelphia Eagles gear for this Philly Street Fight. Michin dumps several weapons into the ring, but the champ gets the jump on her.

Michin counters a piledriver, dumping Chelsea's spine onto a steel chain. On the floor, Michin bites Green's fingers!! That's not sanitary!!

Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy's favorite US Champion!!

"Old Glory's been needing better representation..."

Down goes Fatu...but he gets up almost right after the slam!

Chelsea Green is out next for the United States Championship Street Fight!! And the GREATEST WOMEN'S US CHAMPION OF ALL TIME is repping some classic hardcore gear...that of Cactus Jack himself!!

Backstage, LA Knight is thankful Fatu's been temporarily delt with. Now there's no distractions as he challenges Shinsuke Nakamura for the US Title tonight. He vows to slap Nakamura back to "factory settings." He's withstood the mist, he's withstood it all.

"Old Glory has needed better representation as of late."

Fatu and Strowman brawl to the production area. Strowman fights out of a Samoan Drop and chokeslams Fatu off of a production box through two tables below!! Fatu has been taken out!!

Or not...somehow, Fatu gets up to his feet! The fight is over for now...but the war has just begun!

As Strowman handles Tama and Solo, we hear the music of the Samoan Werewolf. Jacob Fatu strolls down to the ring, and both men climb up onto the apron. This crowd is SCREAMING for this one. Strowman draws first blood, but Fatu rocks him with a pair of superkicks.

Strowman falls to the floor. Fatu goes for a suicide dive but his feet catch the ropes and he faceplants on the floor. Strowman launches him over the desk only for the unkillable beast to jump back to his feet. He sends Strowman over the barricade and stalks him through the crowd!

Back in the ring, Solo stuns Strowman with a superkick, but the big man plants Solo with the tilt-a-whirl slam!!
Before he can get the win, Tama Tonga attacks.

Braun Strowman defeats Solo Sikoa via DQ.

Back from the break, Solo plants Braun with a Samoan Drop and follows with the running hip attack in the corner. It's not enough to keep the former Universal Champion down. Strowman flattens Solo with a running cross body and finally hits the Strowman Express on the floor.