WWE SmackDown Results on January 3: MITB Cashed in Successfully; Bloodline Take Momentum Into RAW on Netflix

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WWE SmackDown Results: The Money in the Bank contract was successfully cashed in on the first WWE SmackDown of 2025, which went down at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday (January 3) night.

Tiffany Stratton used the MITB to win the WWE Women's Championship before the Bloodline took all the momentum into the Tribal Combat match set for Raw premier on Netflix by winning the six-man tag team match in the main event.

WWE SmackDown Results on January 4, 2025

• Cody Rhodes opens SmackDown
• Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Andrade
• Michin defeated Piper Niven
• Solo Sikoa cut a promo with Paul Heyman ahead of Tribal Combat on Raw on Netflix
• DIY vs. Motor City Machine Guns WWE Tag Team Title Match ended in a No-Contest
• Nia Jax defeated Naomi in a WWE Women's Championship Match
• Tiffany Stratton defeated Nia Jax to capture the WWE Women's Championship
• Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu & Tama Tonga defeated Sami Zayn & The Usos

Cody Rhodes opened the show with a promo in which he refused Drew McIntyre's help before his rival Kevin Owens attacked Rhodes and brawled with The American Nightmare as the feud seems to continue.

United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura emerged victorious over Andrade with a Kinshasa. After the fight, former titleholder LA Knight charged to the ring and unleashed a post-match attack on Nakamura before declaring his intentions to re-run for his title.

Michin put down Piper Niven with Eat Defeat after getting her foot up to catch her opponent coming off the second rope as Women's United States Champion Chelsea Green watched on from ringside.

Later, in a promo segment for next week's Raw premier on Netflix, Solo Sikoa instructed Paul Heyman to hold the Ula Fala during Tribal Combat and put it on the neck of the true Tribal Chief when it's over. Solo faces Roman Reigns in a one on one matchup next week on Raw.

A brawl between Pretty Deadly and Los Garza saw the WWE Tag Team Title Match between the DIY and Motor City Machine Guns end in No Contest. Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin were close to reclaiming the gold from Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa by submission, but the officials had to call off the contest.

Nia Jax made successful defence of the WWE Women's Championship against Naomi, but Tiffany Stratton cashed in the Money in the Bank contract and defeated the champion to win the title.

In the main event, chaos took over inside and outside the ring in the Six-Man Tag Team match. Jey Uso was onroute to claiming the win with Samoan Splash off the top rope on Jacob Fatu, but Solo was the legal man.

Failing to realize that, Jey Uso fell to Solo, who hit his unsuspecting older brother with the Samoan Spike for the victory as the show came to a close teasing what could be in-store for the Tribal Combat this Monday.