Does ANYTHING significant happen on Smackdown?

[Guest Badd Company]

Smackdown, which is suppposed to be the WWF's big primetime network show, has become one of the most worthless shows on TV.  I mean, it's like Heat, only with the main event level guys.  There is usually a total of about 5 minutes of the show worth anybody's time, and the only reason for those 5 minutes have been recent Flair promos.

Seriously, when's the last time anything truly significant and interesting happened on that show?

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

McMahon won the title...

 

Benoit and Austin had a great match...

 

Other than that...

 

Smackdown generally blows.

[Guest Tony149]

That last time Smackdown was really worth watching was during the start of the WCW invasion. That bombed quickly though.

 

Smackdown in 1999 had the 3 or 4 gimmick matches with HHH. During HHH's first big heel push.

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

HHH returned...

 

Actually, that was Raw.

 

Well, Lance Storm got to wrestle a good singles match.

 

Wait, that Heat.

 

Hey! I got it!

 

No, sorry.  It was there, but like RVD's push, it disappeared.

[Guest goodhelmet]

smackdown as a WRESTLING program usually kills RAW.

 

Hardy-HHH IC Title change (the good match)

TLC 3

Paul Heyman's shoot promo

SMH wins womens title from Jackie (sorry, that sucked)

Angle carries Kane to a great match.

 

I like Smackdown.

[Guest The Masked Yodeler]

Nothing major ever happens on Smackdown because the creative team blows their wad on Raw each week, and fills up Smackdown with either crap, or extra wrestling.  So Smackdown either really, really sucks or is a pretty straight wrestling show.  

 

mackdown leans toward the average wrestling show with no great matches, but no imbecilic boring offensive sports entertainment segments (Kiss My Ass Club, Trish barking like a dog, etc) but it also doesn't have those magic moments that occur when the bookings good (ECW Invasion, Flair returns, the WWF History video package) or the great PPV quality main events that Raw occasionally has.  The best individual shows occur on Raw, but so do the worst.

[Guest Army Eye]

yeah.. it's about time they had something meaningful happen on Smackdown.  It's starting to become a very missable show.  (you miss it and it doesn't really matter).  The last reasonably big thing on Smackdown that I can remember is Jeff Hardy winning the IC title

[Guest goodhelmet]

It may be missable from a storyline point of view but the angles (not Kurt) have been so horrid as of late, I could give a shit. As for the Wrestling, Smackdown consistently brings the goods more so than Raw. And Heyman's shoot interview was EXCELLENT!

[Guest One Bad Apple]

I'd say Stephanie announcing herself as guest referee and Maven pinning Undertaker were pretty significant from a storyline perspective.

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

Lots of title changes have occured on Smackdown. The last Heat title change I can remember was Lynn/Crash, and that was a ppv pre-show.

 

SD! also featured the return of Cactus Jack.

[Guest Redhawk]

Nothing important happens on Smackdown because of spoilers. The WWF knows that as soon as they're done shooting on Tuesday, some 2 million websites will leak the results. If a lot of viewers already know what's gonna happen, why try to surprise anyone? And if they do what they should, which is put WCW on Smackdown and WWF on Mondays (cable lets them be more Attitude-y), people will watch Smackdown.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

Nothing important happens on Smackdown because of spoilers. The WWF knows that as soon as they're done shooting on Tuesday, some 2 million websites will leak the results. If a lot of viewers already know what's gonna happen, why try to surprise anyone? And if they do what they should, which is put WCW on Smackdown and WWF on Mondays (cable lets them be more Attitude-y), people will watch Smackdown.

Thats true, but the WWF themselves has spoiled a couple tapings for me. When Foley won the WWF title on a taped RAW it was the headline on their website, and ditto for when Jeff Hardy beat HHH for the IC title on Smackdown.

[Guest Tony149]

That's the only time they should put spoilers up on WWF.com. I didn't know Foley won the title until Schiavone said it on Nitro. The Jeff Hardy win, well, it didn't mean shit. So that one doesn't bother me.

[Guest Galactic Gigolo]

I'd say Stephanie announcing herself as guest referee and Maven pinning Undertaker were pretty significant from a storyline perspective.

Stephanie announcing herself as guest referee is far from signifigant because everyone knew that Stephanie would get herself involved somehow with the match, whether it be through iterference or by refereeing the match.  We all know that Triple H will either be screwed Sunday, or Triple H will force Stephanie to make the three count.

 

And as Mavin pinning Undertaker, blah.  I like Maven, but we all know he's here because the WWF's talent division is bland right now, so they needed someone to work an angle.  Soon enough he'll be back to the HWA, getting himself ready.

[Guest Tony149]

I thought they're using Maven to push Tough Enough 2. So the contestants would know you will be on WWF TV.

[Guest Undisputed Champion]

Actually, some other significant things happening on Smackdown (for me anyway):

-Angle winning WCW Title from Booker T in Pittsburgh

-All the Angle/Austin dueling dork skits

-And you can't forget Austin kicking the crap out of Michael Cole!!

[Guest Redhawk]

Some other significant Smackdown events:

 

-- "The Dog Poop! The Dog Poop! The Dog Poop!"

-- New Age Outlaws reunited to win tag titles from Rock n' Sock

-- Austin appeared on WWF TV for the first time since vehicular assault

-- Vince McMahon won the WWF title

-- Triple H's first match after surgery

-- Tajiri's first match in the WWF

-- TLC 3

-- Austin solidifes heel turn by beating up JR

-- Austin solidifies status as my hero by beating up Michael Cole

-- Brooklyn Brawler beats Triple H

[Vanhalen 0]

The Smackdown 6

[Guest Coffey]

Stop bumping old fucking threads, jobber.

[Vanhalen 0]

[SuperJerk 0]

Given that SD has risen and fallen since this thread was new, it seems to be relevant again.

[Fuzzy Dunlop 0]

I do remember there was defiinitely a time when it seemed RAW was the show where stuff happened, and SD was the show where they reacted to what happened.

[Just John 0]

Brock Lesnar beat Kurt Angle to win the Undisputed title in an iron man match.

 

The Hassan terrorist attack that got him booted off tv.

 

Of course, the thread starter would have no way of knowing of these, but they are fairly significant.

[Foshi 0]

The Smackdown 6

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I've heard this referenced before, but what is it?

[claydude14 0]

The "Smackdown 6" is a term given to the Los Gurreros (Eddie and Chavo) Vs. Angle/Benoit Vs. Edge Rey 3-way tag feud that went on a few months in the fall of 02 or 03. The WWE tag team titles were debuting at that point and Smackdown! was booked for months around any combination of the above 6 wrestlers, whether in singles matches, tag matches or 3 ways and the 6 pretty much always delivered on the workrate, thus earning them the nickname the "Smackdown Six" IIRC.

[chaosrage 0]

Happy birthday Van Halen! Since you're 24 today, you should bump 24 threads.

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

The "Smackdown 6" is a term given to the Los Gurreros (Eddie and Chavo) Vs. Angle/Benoit Vs. Edge Rey 3-way tag feud that went on a few months in the fall of 02 or 03. The WWE tag team titles were debuting at that point and Smackdown! was booked for months around any combination of the above 6 wrestlers, whether in singles matches, tag matches or 3 ways and the 6 pretty much always delivered on the workrate, thus earning them the nickname the "Smackdown Six" IIRC.

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The good workers who were carrying the matches were exposed quickly when matches like Edge vs Chavo came up * 1/2 efforts

[Guest Samantha]

I don't know whether I am imagining it but didn't the Smackdown six extend briefly to the Smackdown 8, i'm sure John Cena was a part of that group because he had been tagging with Rey and Edge.

[Mole 0]

I don't know whether I am imagining it but didn't the Smackdown six extend briefly to the Smackdown 8, i'm sure John Cena was a part of that group because he had been tagging with Rey and Edge.

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Umm, no.

 

It was just the SD6 seeing how Cena has never been close to the workrate of those 6 men.

 

And who would be number 8 if Cena is 7?

[Guest Samantha]

I'm trying to remember who the eighth guy was... i'm sure it was the case though.

 

Maybe I dreamt it.