WWE’s Smackdown show coming to Texas at Moody Center in Austin [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — WWE Friday Night Smackdown is coming to Austin’s Moody Center next January.

The global pro-wrestling organization will host a show at the arena on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Smackdown is one of the WWE’s two signature brands, along with RAW. This will be the first time the WWE show has come to the Moody Center since it opened in April 2022.

Previously, the WWE has hosted 33 events in Austin, most recently bringing the RAW brand and the promotion’s streaming program WWE Speed to the Moody Center in August. The most recent Smackdown show to be hosted in Austin was in December 2018 at the Frank Erwin Center.

Competing pro-wrestling promotion AEW also held a show at the Moody Center in August.

Tickets for the event go on sale to the …