WWE SmackDown Notes: Results, Butch Gets Pete Dunne Name Back & Drops Butch Character, WWE Women’s Tag Titles Match Set for Jan. 26th Show

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Steve C.

Jan 19, 2024

WWE SmackDown Results – Jan. 19, 2024

January 19, 2024
Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
Commentary – Kevin Patrick and Corey Graves

Quick Match Results

Legado Del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Angel, & Humberto) defeated LWO (Carlito, Joaquin Wilde, & Cruz Del Toro) via Roll-up (pinfall)
Tyler Bate & Pete Dunne defeated Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince & Kit Wilson) via Bitter End (pinfall)
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship – Kayden Carter & Katana Chance (c) defeated Unholy Union (Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn) via Keg Stand (pinfall)
LA Knight defeated AJ Styles via Disqualification
Randy Orton defeated Solo Sikoa via RKO (pinfall)

Butch Gets Name Change Back to Pete Dunne at Friday’s SmackDown Show

Friday’s SmackDown show featured The Brawling Brutes’ Butch officially getting his old ring name of Pete Dunne back.

This name change was originally setup during last week’s SmackDown show following a cafe segment teasing the return of Butch’s old Pete Dunne name.

During tonight’s show, Tyler Bate made his entrance for his tag team match against Pretty Deadly. After Bate came out, Butch made his appearance next but came out under his old ring name of Pete Dunne along with his old entrance video and wrestling gear. While Dunne was able to get back his old ring name and entrance video in WWE, the same could not be said of his old entrance theme due to him coming out to a new generic version of it instead.

P E T E 🔥 D U N N E

Love to see it, @PeteDunneYxB. 👏👏👏#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/WGoQq5JfQx
— WWE (@WWE) January 20, 2024

WWE Women’s Tag Titles Challenge Issued at Friday’s SmackDown

Friday’s SmackDown show also featured Damage CTRL issuing an official challenge for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.

Following Kayden Carter and Katana Chance’s victory over the Unholy Union to retain their WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, Damage CTRL’s Asuka and Kairi Sane entered the ring and took the Women’s Tag titles. Asuka and Sane proceeded to dance with the belts before being told by the referee to give those belts back. Sane went down on one knee and gave the belt that she took back which led to Carter and Chance saying if they wanted a shot at their titles, then they can have it.

Looks like we are getting Kabuki Warriors vs Kayden Carter and Katana Chance soon.#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/U9Ar92cyJi
— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) January 20, 2024

Later in the show, it was confirmed that this match was made official for next week’s Royal Rumble go-home SmackDown show on January 26th.

Kabuki Warriors v Chance/Carter for the Women’s Tag-Team Championship is officially set for next weeks #SmackDown live from Miami, FL! pic.twitter.com/pjYiWv9oBa
— Wrestle Ops (@WrestleOps) January 20, 2024

Current card for January 26th SmackDown show:

WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship – Kabuki Warriors (Kairi Sane & Asuka) vs. Kayden Carter & Katana Chance (c)
Carlito vs. Santos Escobar
Austin Theory vs. Carmelo Hayes