Overview
- WWE SmackDown airs live from the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville as the final episode before Backlash.
- Segments center on fallout from Gunther putting Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes to sleep with a sleeper hold last week.
- Tiffany Stratton defends the WWE Women’s United States Championship against Kiana James, whom she has beaten in all three of their singles meetings.
- Rhea Ripley teams with Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss to face Fatal Influence, the trio of Jacy Jayne, Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley, after Jayne beat Flair last week.
- Trick Williams stages a Gingerbread Man funeral in his feud with Sami Zayn before their United States title match at Backlash.