Cody Rhodes Advances in 2025 King of the Ring Tournament
Cody Rhodes emerged victorious from a fatal four-way main event on WWE SmackDown to advance in the 2025 King of the Ring tournament.
WWE SmackDown, also known as Friday Night SmackDown or simply SmackDown, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE. It airs live every Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on USA Network in the United States, and in most international markets on Netflix.
SmackDown is the most viewed television show on Friday nights in the United States. Fox Deportes simulcasts the program with Spanish-language commentary. The show features characters from the SmackDown brand, to which WWE wrestlers are assigned to work and perform. It is considered to be one of WWE's two flagship programs, along with Monday Night Raw.
SmackDown! debuted in the New Haven Coliseum in New Haven, Connecticut on UPN on April 29, 1999, and was formerly broadcast on Thursday nights. The show moved to Friday nights on September 9, 2005, and began airing on The CW in September 2006, after the merger of UPN and the WB. The show later moved to MyNetworkTV in October 2008. On October 1, 2010, SmackDown moved to cable network Syfy, and eventually returned to Thursdays on January 15, 2015. The show then moved to the sibling USA Network on January 7, 2016, and later that year, beginning on July 19,…
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Cody Rhodes emerged victorious from a fatal four-way main event on WWE SmackDown to advance in the 2025 King of the Ring tournament.
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