{"id":327821,"date":"2026-05-02T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327821"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:48:48","slug":"kiana-james-gets-shot-at-tiffany-strattons-title-on-next-weeks-smackdown-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/kiana-james-gets-shot-at-tiffany-strattons-title-on-next-weeks-smackdown-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiana James Gets Shot At Tiffany Stratton&#8217;s Title On Next Week&#8217;s SmackDown &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Next week\u2019s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown (May 8, 2026) takes place on the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>There might be a funeral for The Gingerbread Man, who was killed off by Sami Zayn on this week\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>Rhea Ripley will team with Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair in an united front against Fatal Influence, putting aside her past with Flair for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>Gunther is about to handle his attack on Cody Rhodes that happened on tonight\u2019s episode, in addition to Tiffany Stratton defending her Women\u2019s United States Championship against Kiana James, which was her selection, resulting in some tension with Giulia.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, here\u2019s your lineup for next week\u2019s SmackDown thus far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gunther might be there live<\/li>\n<li><strong>WWE Women\u2019s United States Championship Match:<\/strong> Tiffany Stratton (c) vs. Kiana James<\/li>\n<li><strong>6-Woman Tag Team Match:<\/strong> Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair vs. Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley, &#038; Lainey Reid)<\/li>\n<li>The funeral of The Gingerbread Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Make sure to stay tuned to eWrestlingNews.com for more updates on any updates to the SmackDown card, in addition to live coverage next Friday night at 8 PM EST!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week\u2019s episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown (May 8, 2026) takes place on the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. There might be a funeral for The Gingerbread Man, who was killed off by Sami Zayn on this week\u2019s episode. Rhea Ripley will team with Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair in an united [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[628,16382,1733,9262,29920,1575,1148,2480],"class_list":["post-327821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-james","tag-kiana","tag-shot","tag-smackdown","tag-strattons","tag-tiffany","tag-title","tag-weeks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327824,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327821\/revisions\/327824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}