WWE SmackDown Results 12/12 - United States Championship On The Line, Mixed Tag Team Match & More

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "WWE SmackDown" on December 12, 2025, coming to you live from the Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania!

Ilja Dragunov will be putting the United States Championship on the line as he defends against one half of #DIY, Tommaso Ciampa. While Dragunov has kept the US Open Challenge going over the course of the past few weeks (including a successful defense against Carmelo Hayes during last Friday's edition of "SmackDown"), he has repeatedly denied Ciampa a chance at the United States Championship.

Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest will be joining forces with one another for the first time since a September 29, 2024 Live Event as they go head-to-head with Zelina Vega and Aleister Black in a Mixed Tag Team Match. As tensions between Priest and Black have been on the rise over the course of the past several weeks and the two men have squared off in a handful of matches against one another dating back to August, Priest recruited the help of Ripley after Vega helped Black emerge as the victor of a Last Man Standing Match against Priest with the use of a fireball on the October 10, 2025 episode of "SmackDown".

Lash Legend will be competing in her first singles match on "SmackDown" since scoring a win over Piper Niven on the October 18, 2024 edition of "SmackDown" as she goes one-on-one with Alexa Bliss. Legend and Bliss, along with their respective tag team partners Nia Jax and Charlotte Flair, Judgment Day, and the duo of Bayley and Lyra Valkyria, have all been vying for a shot at Asuka and Kairi Sane's Women's Tag Team Championship over the course of the past few weeks.

Additionally, WWE has promised a special look into the career of John Cena tonight before he takes on GUNTHER in his final ever match tomorrow night at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event. Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes will also be appearing on tonight's show as he prepares to face freshly crowned NXT Champion Oba Femi in a Champion vs. Champion Match tomorrow night as well, and "SmackDown" General Manager Nick Aldis has extended an invite to the suspended Drew McIntyre for tonight's show via his X account.

We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping Nick Aldis sending Drew McIntyre home at the top of tonight's show last Friday, as well as what subsequently happened with Cody Rhodes.

Michael Cole and Corey Graves greet audiences at home.

We then head backstage, where Rhodes runs into Aldis. Aldis informs Rhodes that McIntyre has sent a legal letter claiming an unsafe working environment and tells Rhodes he's planning on visiting McIntyre's home later this week. Rhodes takes the letter and crumples it up, then heads out to the ring.

Rhodes asks Wilkes-Barre what they want to talk about, then says they could talk about Drew McIntyre. He addresses McIntyre claiming an unsafe working environment, then says that there's a reason McIntyre isn't mingling with anything in the back. He says he's not afraid of McIntyre and says he would fire McIntyre if he were the boss. He promises to beat down McIntyre.

Oba Femi's music hits, and he makes his way out. Femi stares down Rhodes in the ring, and Rhodes responds by handing Femi a microphone. He says Rhodes is all fired up tonight, but he's worried about the wrong guy. He says McIntyre is not here, but the top guy in "NXT" is and he formally introduces himself to both Rhodes and the main roster audience. He says he's here knocking on Rhodes' front door to tell him that the future is now, then says while Rhodes' time is up, his is now.

Rhodes says he's glad Femi looks up to John Cena, but reminds Femi he beat John Cena for the Undisputed WWE Championship. He looks to leave, but Femi grabs Rhodes' arm and holds up the NXT Championship belt. Rhodes holds up the Undisputed WWE Championship belt and stares down Femi before he heads to the back.

Tommaso Ciampa then makes his way to the ring. Ilja Dragunov follows.  

The bell rings and the two lock up. Dragunov and Ciampa exchange forearm strikes, chops, and slaps with one another, but Dragunov levels Ciampa with a jumping boot.

Dragunov sets up for a Torpedo Moskau on Ciampa on the outside of the ring, but Ciampa sees Dragunov coming and sends him crashing into the ring steps. He follows it up with a suplex into the ring steps.

During the commercial break, Ciampa fires off chops on Dragunov in the corner of the ring. He begins targeting Dragunov's knee and rocks him with a knee to Dragunov's face back from the break. Dragunov responds with a German suplex to Ciampa and rains down Hammer and Anvil elbows on him, then ascends to the top rope. Ciampa joins Dragunov up there and trips him with a kick to his injured knee, then connects with an Air Raid Crash to him on the ring apron. He pins Dragunov back in the ring, but Dragunov kicks out.

Dragunov delivers a missile dropkick to the back of Ciampa's head off the ropes, then lands a knee on his face during another commercial break and sends him crashing into the mat once again with a suplex. Ciampa and Dragunov then exchange more strikes with one another, but Ciampa delivers a second Air Raid Crash to Dragunov off the middle rope back from the break. Ciampa pins Dragunov, but Dragunov kicks out. Ciampa then delivers a German suplex to Dragunov, but Dragunov immediately responds with a Torpedo Moskau.

Johnny Gargano runs down to the ring and hops up on the apron to distract the referee. Candice LeRae appears on the other side and takes a cheap shot at Dragunov, opening the door for Ciampa to land a running knee on Dragunov and pin him. Dragunov kicks out and rolls up Ciampa for the win.

Winner (and still): Ilja Dragunov

After the match, #DIY beat down Dragunov. Carmelo Hayes' music hits and he runs down to the ring to come to Dragunov's aid. He helps Dragunov up and stands tall in the ring.

The Wyatt Sicks then make their way to the ring.

Uncle Howdy says Solo Sikoa tried discrediting him and his family last week, but questions who he is to cast judgment. He says the reality is that Sikoa's real family has all turned their backs on him, then says Sikoa uses those he claims to love. He says Sikoa is disillusioned and out of his mind saying that MFT runs "SmackDown", then reminds MFT that The Wyatt Sicks have the WWE Tag Team Championship. He dares Sikoa and the rest of MFT to come get the WWE Tag Team Championship.

Sikoa's music hits, but no one appears. MFT instead appears on the Titan Tron, and Sikoa tells Talla Tonga, Tonga Loa, JC Mateo, and Tama Tonga to look at the freaks in the ring. He says Uncle Howdy doesn't call the shots around here because he does, then says The Wyatt Sicks like to appear in the shadows to attack his family. He says MFT is coming to take the WWE Tag Team Championship away from The Wyatt Sicks next Friday, then tells Uncle Howdy to hand over the WWE Tag Team Championship because the only thing he can do is run.

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