WWE Smackdown

WWE SmackDown is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). As of October 4, 2019, it airs on FOX in the United States as WWE Friday Night SmackDown. From January 15, 2015, the show was aired as WWE Thursday Night SmackDown. Starting on July 19, 2016, the show was aired as WWE SmackDown Live. The show's name was also used to refer to the SmackDown brand, in which WWE employees were assigned to work and perform on that program during the brand extension period of 2002 to 2011; the other program and brand was Raw.
From its launch in 1999, SmackDown broadcast on Thursday nights, but as of September 9, 2005, the show moved to Friday nights. The show originally debuted in the United States on the UPN television network on August 26, 1999, but after the merger of UPN and the WB, SmackDown began airing on The CW in 2006. The show remained on the CW network for two years until it was announced that it would move to MyNetworkTV in October 2008. SmackDown moved to Syfy on October 1, 2010 (additional information can be seen further down this page). Since January 15, 2015, episodes are airing on Thursdays for the first time in 9 years. Since January 7, 2016, SmackDown moved to USA Network, with its final Thursday night broadcast being on July 14, 2016. On July 19, 2016, SmackDown moved to Tuesday nights and aired live on USA Network. It is the second longest running weekly episodic television show in US history behind Monday Night Raw.
Due to time differences, SmackDown premieres a few hours earlier in Ireland and United Kingdom and a day earlier in Australia, India and Philippines than the United States. For international broadcast listings, see below.
==Current champions==
	Championship 	Champion(s) 	Defeated 	Date Won 	Event 	Days Held
	WWE Championship 	Roman Reigns 	Brock Lesnar 	April 3, 2022 	WrestleMania 38	
	WWE Universal Championship 	Roman Reigns 	Triple Threat Match 	August 30, 2020 	Payback 	
	WWE United States Championship 	Logan Paul 	Rey Mysterio 	November 4, 2023	Crown Jewel 	
	WWE Women's Championship 	IYO SKY 	Bianca Belair 	August 5, 2023 	SummerSlam 	
	WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship	The Judgment Day (Damian Priest & Finn Bálor)	Cody Rhodes & Jey Uso	October 16, 2023	Raw 	
==History==
WWF SmackDown! (as it was originally known) was set up to compete against WCW's Thursday night show, Thunder. In the spirit of the WWF's Attitude Era, the show was originally planned to be two hours of WWF Divas in primetime TV. However, this did not work out, and instead SmackDown! became a complementary show to RAW is WAR.
SmackDown! first appeared on April 29, 1999 using the RAW is WAR set as a single television special on UPN. On August 26, 1999, SmackDown! officially debuted on UPN. Like WCW Thunder, SmackDown! was recorded on Tuesdays and then broadcast on Thursdays. The new WWF show was so popular that WCW moved Thunder to Wednesdays in the hope of holding on to fans rather than losing them to the WWF. SmackDown!, like Thunder
, made heavy use of the color blue, earning it the nickname "The Blue Show" amongst wrestling fans.
The original SmackDown! theme was not performed by a band like the RAW is WAR theme; instead, the WWF created a fast-paced theme that was a mixture of techno and rock. The first SmackDown! set was also unique as it featured an oval-shaped TitanTron (which was dubbed the "OvalTron"), entrance and stage which made it stand out from the RAW set and its rectangular TitanTrons. An added feature to the original set was the ability for the OvalTron to be moved to either the left or right of the stage. Throughout the show's early existence, top WWF superstar The Rock routinely called SmackDown! "his" show, in reference to the fact that the name was derived from one of his catchphrases, "Laying the smack down." In August 2001, as part of celebrating SmackDown!'s 2nd anniversary, the show received a new logo and set. The last SmackDown! to use the previous television set saw Alliance member Rhyno deliver the Gore to WWF member Chris Jericho through the OvalTron destroying part of the set, and this was the storyline reason for the change.
The September 11, 2001 taping event was cancelled due to the terrorist attacks. On September 13, 2001, SmackDown! was broadcast live from Houston (with Jim Ross and Paul Heyman filling in as hosts Michael Cole and Tazz were absent) as the first major and televised event since the attacks as thousands were in attendance. The ring ropes are usually blue for the SmackDown! shows but were red, white and blue for this night; these colors were commonly used during the 1980s and through the 1990s. They would remain that way, with an American Flag on the mini-tron, for two weeks.
===The Brand Extension===
The WWF underwent something they called the "Brand Extension". This meant that the two WWF TV shows (RAW and SmackDown!) would become competition for each other. This came about after the WWF purchased their biggest competitor, WCW, and they decided to bring in talent from the then out-of-business ECW. The brand extension was publicly announced during a telecast of WWF RAW on March 25, 2002, and became official the next day.
The Brand Extension would bring about change like nothing the WWF had seen before. Wrestlers would become "show-exclusive", wrestling for their specific show only. At the time this excluded the Undisputed Champion and Women's Champion as originally, those titles were defended on both shows. However, later in 2002, Brock Lesnar, then the WWE Undisputed Champion, refused to defend the title on RAW, causing the title to become SmackDown!-exclusive. This forced Eric Bischoff (General Manager of RAW at the time) to separate the World Heavyweight Championship from the WWE Championship due to the fact that since the WWE Undisputed Championship was now SmackDown!-exclusive it was no longer seen as "undisputed".
In January 2005, the Oakland Tribune reported that Leslie Moonves, co-President and co-Chief Operating Officer of UPN's parent company, Viacom, announced that SmackDown! would not be renewed on UPN after Viacom's contract with WWE expires in 2006. This article was later revealed to be in error; Moonves was in fact saying that SmackDown! may not be renewed, as opposed to will not be renewed.
The SmackDown! brand had a sister show, Velocity, that consisted of lower-card matches and recaps of that week's SmackDown! On March 10, 2005, Viacom announced that they would not seek to extend their deal to air WWE programming on Spike TV when it expired in September 2005. This included Velocity, which formerly aired on Spike TV but was converted into a webcast on WWE's website, when WWE programming moved to the USA Network. It was possible that WWE's "lame duck" status with Viacom on Spike TV is what prompted its moving SmackDown! to the Friday night death slot for the Fall 2005 season. Sources within WWE were reportedly unaware of the move. However, it worked out for the better for both parties involved, as the show had been better in ratings than it had on Thursdays, while UPN were getting much better ratings on Friday's than it did before with its movie night. In addition, UPN has been able to hold on to the ratings from Thursday nights, most notably with comedian Chris Rock's Wonder Years-like sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. In January 2006, prior to the announcement of the CW Network, it was announced that UPN had quietly renewed SmackDown! for an extra two more seasons.
On June 6, 2005, WWE Champion John Cena switched brands from SmackDown! to RAW as part of the month-long Draft Lottery. This effectively left SmackDown! without a World Title. During this time, United States Champion Orlando Jordan was billed as the top champion on the show. On June 23, 2005, in Tucson, SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long announced a six-man elimination match between John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Booker T, Chris Benoit, The Undertaker, Christian (replacing The Big Show, who was picked by RAW in the lottery), and Muhammad Hassan to crown the first SmackDown! Champion. On the June 30 episode of SmackDown!, JBL won the match. Long appeared afterward and stated that even though JBL had won the match, SmackDown! didn't need a Championship anymore. Batista, the World Heavyweight Champion, entered the ring as SmackDown's final draft lottery pick. Long also revealed that JBL was the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship.
===Friday Night SmackDown!===
Following the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, SmackDown! was renamed Friday Night SmackDown! and moved into Enterprise's former timeslot in the United States. WWE promoted this move with the tagline "TV that's changing Friday nights." Friday Night SmackDown! made its series/season premiere on September 9, 2005. The program still aired on Thursdays in Canada on The Score. In the United Kingdom and Australia, their stations Sky Sports and FOX8 air SmackDown! on Fridays before the United States due to the time difference. This is the first time a major weekly WWE show airs internationally before it hits screens in the U.S.
The events of Hurricane Katrina affected the first edition of Friday Night SmackDown! in the US. Due to a special fundraising concert to help those affected airing on UPN along with other major US networks at the same time the first edition would have been broadcast, only the second hour of the show was shown on UPN. The first hour was instead streamed from WWE's website. Other countries, including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines received the full two-hour show. WWOR-TV (My 9, New York, New York) also aired both hours of the show on tape delay on Saturday, due to a previous commitment to broadcast the New York Yankees on Friday nights.
At the SmackDown! taping on January 10, 2006, Batista had to forfeit the World Heavyweight Title because of a triceps injury. Theodore Long made a Battle Royal for the vacant title. The winner was at the time RAW superstar Kurt Angle, who later switched to the SmackDown! brand. In a break from their traditional role of acting as if SmackDown! isn't pre-recorded, WWE.com had a photograph of Angle holding his new title on the main page.
On the April 7, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, general manager Theodore Long announced that the King of the Ring tournament will return after a four-year hiatus as a SmackDown!-exclusive tournament. The tournament ended at Judgment Day 2006 with Booker T as the winner, defeating Bobby Lashley in the final.
On June 9, Tazz left SmackDown! to join the new ECW brand, leaving the color commentator position on SmackDown! vacant. However, on June 11 at One Night Stand 2006, JBL revealed that he will be the new color commentator for SmackDown!.
===CW Network===
On September 22, 2006, Friday Night SmackDown! debuted on the CW Network, a merger of UPN and The WB.
For 4 weeks before the official premiere (and in preparation for the impending removal of UPN in several markets by the debut of MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006) of Friday Night SmackDown! on the CW on September 22, 2006, Tribune Broadcasting television stations in six major markets (including WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles) aired WWE's Friday Night SmackDown! early in September 2006. Two other future CW affiliates, WCWJ in Jacksonville, Florida and WIWB in Green Bay, Wisconsin, also aired SmackDown! in early September as well.
The arrival of the CW put the show back on the air throughout the state of Utah, nearly all of which lost the program in June when KPNZ in Salt Lake City stopped airing all UPN programs, including SmackDown!. The show is now seen on KUCW. In Hawaii, SmackDown! returned in late 2006, airing on a CW digital subchannel of Honolulu's Fox affiliate KHON (Channel 2), which has received statewide carriage over Oceanic Cable.
Friday Night SmackDown will stop airing on The CW after the 2007-2008 broadcast schedule due to WWE and The CW having negotiation problems.
===MyNetworkTV===
Friday Night SmackDown debuted on MyNetworkTV in the United States on October 3, 2008, which featured performers from the Raw, ECW, and SmackDown programs. WWE SmackDown also debuted with a new theme song. The premiere episode on MyNetworkTV attracted 3.2 million viewers. While the viewership dropped, SmackDown pulled the highest ratings to date for MyNetworkTV and pushed the network to fifth place—ahead of rival The CW. The premiere was also first place in male 18-49 demographics.
On February 15, at No Way Out, Edge won the World Heavyweight Championship in Raw's Elimination Chamber match, thus making it a SmackDown exclusive title and giving SmackDown two top tier championships. On March 20, 2009 WWE SmackDown celebrated its 500th episode.
As a result of the 2009 WWE Draft in April, WWE Champion Triple H was drafted to the Raw brand, while the World Heavyweight Championship moved to the Raw brand after Edge lost the title to John Cena at WrestleMania XXV. SmackDown would regain the World Heavyweight Championship at Backlash (2009) when Edge defeated John Cena to win the championship. In addition, SmackDown and Raw would exchange both women-exclusive championships with Raw gaining the WWE Divas Championship and SmackDown gaining the WWE Women's Championship. Also, SmackDown and Raw exchanged the WWE United States Championship (which became exclusive to Raw) and the WWE Intercontinental Championship (subsequently exclusive to the SmackDown brand), for the first time ever.
On September 15, 2009, WWE Home Video released a DVD set entitled The Best of SmackDown 10th Anniversary.
On April 19, 2010, most of the WWE Raw superstars were stuck in Belfast due to Eyjafjallajökull erupting in Iceland and left ash hovering over Europe and caused flights to be grounded. To help, Smackdown took over Monday Night Raw (with the exceptions of former Smackdown superstars and current Raw superstars Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov) and fought over there. The superstars included Rey Mysterio, Edge, CM Punk, Chris Jericho and more. This was the first time Raw was noted as Monday Night Smackdown.
===Syfy===
On April 12, 2010, it was announced that SmackDown would move from MyNetworkTV to Syfy, a network which also aired NXT and previously ECW, in a two-year deal that also included an optional third year. Retaining its Friday night timeslot, SmackDown made its live premiere on Syfy on October 1, 2010 and there was talk about having live editions of the show on WWE PPV weekends. According to the Los Angeles Times, the move saw Syfy paying close to $30 million for the show as opposed to the $20 million paid by MyNetworkTV. SD was advertised on Syfy and sister network, USA Network.
In 2011, the Brand Extension came to an end, resulting in Raw talent being able to appear on SmackDown and vice versa. Also in late 2011, a special episode of SmackDown debuted branded Super SmackDown Live which would then be the name of all live editions of SmackDown, taking place on a Tuesday.
Due to the move to an NBCUniversal network, SmackDown was advertised more frequently on Syfy's sister network, USA Network, which airs Raw. Same-week encores of SmackDown were also added to Universal HD, and mun2's Saturday night schedule as a result of the move in the spot previously held by NXT and ECW. On February 4, 2011, Booker T made a return on SmackDown as a commentator replacing Matt Striker.
On the special live August 30, 2011 episode, it was announced that wrestlers from Raw could now appear every week on SmackDown. This mirrored the proclamation made on Raw the previous day where SmackDown wrestlers could now appear every week on Raw. These moves made both programs full roster "supershows", effectively ending the Brand Extension.
October 14, 2011's broadcast of SmackDown (episode 635) made the show the second longest-running weekly episodic television series of American television history (after sister program Monday Night Raw, which surpassed that mark on August 2, 2005). On April 1, 2012 at WrestleMania XXVIII, John Laurinaitis became GM of Raw and SmackDown. However, on June 17 he was fired. On the August 3rd episode of SmackDown, Vince McMahon announced Booker T as the new general manager. In addition, Booker named Theodore Long and Eve as his assistants. Josh Mathews replaced him on the commentary table along with Michael Cole. John Bradshaw Layfield returned to WWE in September and became a commentator for the show as well. SmackDown celebrated 700 episodes in March 2013. Vickie Guerrero became General Manager on July 19. The show was also frequently run by then WWE COO Triple H. 
Past episodes of Smackdown were made viewable on the video streaming website Hulu along with episodes of WWE Superstars and ECW.
On August 5, 2014, a repainted WWE production truck suggested that SmackDown would move back to Thursday nights for the first time in over nine years. On August 24, it was confirmed that SmackDown would return to Thursday nights on October 2. However, the schedule change did not come into effect that date. It was officially confirmed by WWE on November 6 that SmackDown would be moving to Thursday nights as of January 15, 2015.
===USA Network===
USA Network announced on April 7, 2015 that it would begin airing SmackDown starting in the first quarter of 2016."WWE is proud to have Smackdown join Raw as part of our expanded partnership with USA Network." said WWE Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Vince McMahon. “The combination of the #1 cable network and two ratings juggernauts provides a destination for our viewers and an extraordinary platform for our partners.”
===Induction into Merriam-Webster===
On July 10, 2007, Merriam-Webster announced it would induct the word smackdown into Webster's Dictionary. According to Merriam Webster, a "smackdown" is:
* The act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent
* A contest in entertainment wrestling
* A decisive defeat
* A confrontation between rivals or competitors
===Production===
SmackDown was taped on Tuesday evening and aired Friday evening on Syfy the same week. Occasionally, it was taped on Monday nights before or after Raw in what is called a "Supershow". In July 2016, SmackDown is aired live on USA Network.
The show began broadcasting in HD beginning with the January 25, 2008 edition of SmackDown, where a new set debuted — shared among all three WWE brands. Following the first broadcast in HD, the iconic exclamation mark used since the show's inception disappeared from all references pertaining to "SmackDown", including the official logo.
===Special episodes===
Episode 	Date 	Rating	Notes
SmackDown! 	April 29, 1999 	5.8 	
SmackDown! 	August 26, 1999 	4.2 	
SmackDown! Extreme 	February 1, 2001 	4.0 	
9/11 Tribute 	September 13, 2001	3.6 	
Christmas from Baghdad 	December 25, 2003 	3.0 	
SmackDown! 5th Anniversary Special 	September 23, 2004	3.2 	
Christmas in Iraq 	December 23, 2004 	2.9 	
SmackDown! Night of Champions 	December 30, 2004 	2.9 	
Eddie Guerrero Tribute Show 	November 18, 2005 	3.1 	
Best of SmackDown! 2005 	December 23, 2005 	2.2 	
Best of SmackDown! 2006 	December 29, 2006 	2.4 	
SmackDown! 400th episode 	April 20, 2007 	2.2 	
WWE Best of 2007 	December 28, 2007 	2.5 	
SmackDown All-Star Kick-Off 	October 3, 2008 	1.9 	
SmackDown 500th episode 	March 20, 2009 	2.1 	
Decade of SmackDown 	October 2, 2009 	2.2 	
Monday Night SmackDown 	April 19, 2010 	3.1 	
SmackDown Live Syfy Premiere 	October 1, 2010 	1.7 	
SmackDown! 600th Episode 	February 18, 2011 	2.2 	
SuperSmackDown Live 	August 30, 2011 	2.2 	
Edge Appreciation Night 	September 16, 2011	1.8 	
Smackdown Milestone 	October 14, 2011 	2.2 	
SmackDown Live Holiday Special 	November 29, 2011 	2.0 	
Sin City SmackDown 	January 20, 2012 	2.1 	
SuperSmackDown Live: Blast from the Past 	April 10, 2012 	1.5 	
SuperSmackDown Live: The Great American Bash 	July 3, 2012 	1.7 	
Friday Night ZackDown 	July 13, 2012 	1.8 	
SmackDown 700th Episode 	January 18, 2013 	2.0 	
Social Media SmackDown 	March 1, 2013 	1.9 	
SmackDown 15 	October 10, 2014 	2.6 	
SmackDown's 800th Episode 	December 19, 2014 	2.03 	
SmackDown Live! 	January 29, 2015 	2.95 	
SmackDown Live! Christmas Special 	December 22, 2015 	1.53 	
Final SmackDown on Syfy 	December 31, 2015 	2.8 	
SmackDown USA Network Return 	January 7, 2016 	2.75 	
SmackDown Live Premiere and 2016 WWE Draft Lottery	July 19, 2016 	3.17 	
SmackDown Live's 900 Episode 	November 15, 2016 	2.75 	
SmackDown Live's Wild Card Finals 	December 27, 2016 	2.89 	
Superstar Shake-up 	April 11, 2017 	3.10 	
Sin City SmackDown LIVE 	September 12, 2017	2.7 	
SmackDown LIVE Christmas 	December 26, 2017 	 	
SmackDown LIVE New Year's Day 	January 2, 2018 	 	
Seasonal rankings (based on average total estimated viewers per episode) of SmackDown! on UPN, The CW, MyNetworkTV and USA Network
Season	Timeslot 	Network 	Years 	Rank	Viewers(in millions)
1st 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	1999–2000 	N/A 	7.2
2nd 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	2000–2001 	90 	7.1
3rd 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	2001–2002 	111 	6.5
4th 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	2002–2003 	114 	5.4
5th 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	2003–2004 	140 	5.1
6th 	Thursday 8/7C	UPN 	2004–2005 	106 	5.1
7th 	Friday 8/7C 	UPN 	2005–2006 	120 	4.3
8th 	Friday 8/7C 	CW 	2006–2007 	120 	4.5
9th 	Friday 8/7C 	CW 	2007–2008 	119 	4.6
10th 	Friday 8/7C 	MyNetworkTV	2008–2009 	N/A 	N/A
11th 	Friday 8/7C 	MyNetworkTV	2009–2010 	N/A 	N/A
12th 	Friday 8/7C 	Syfy 	2010–2011 	N/A 	N/A
13th 	Friday 8/7C 	Syfy 	2011–2015 	N/A 	N/A
14th 	Thursday 8/7C	Syfy 	2015 	N/A 	N/A
15th 	Thursday 8/7C	USA Network	2016 	N/A 	N/A
16th 	Tuesday 8/7C 	USA Network	2016–present	N/A 	N/A
== On-air personalities ==
===General managers===
Name 	Date started 	Date finished 	Notes
Stephanie McMahon	July 16, 2002 	October 19, 2003 	
Paul Heyman 	October 21, 2003 	March 22, 2004 	
Kurt Angle 	March 23, 2004 	July 20, 2004 	
Theodore Long 	July 27, 2004 	September 18, 2007	
Vickie Guerrero 	September 25, 2007	April 6, 2009 	
Theodore Long 	April 7, 2009 	April 1, 2012 	Lost position at WrestleMania XXVIII.
Vickie Guerrero 	January 21, 2011 	February 18, 2011 	
John Laurinaitis 	April 2, 2012 	June 17, 2012 	
Booker T 	August 3, 2012 	July 12, 2013 	
Vickie Guerrero 	July 19, 2013 	June 23, 2014 	
Daniel Bryan 	July 18, 2016 	April 10, 2018 	
Paige 	April 10, 2018 	December 18, 2018 	
===Commentators===
Commentators 	Dates
Michael Cole and Jim Cornette 	Pilot - April 29, 1999
Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler 	Network Premiere - August 26, 1999
Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler 	September 2, 1999 - February 22, 2001November 22, 2001 - March 28, 2002March 31, 2005October 23, 2009March 26, 2015
Michael Cole and Michael Hayes 	September 23, 1999
Michael Cole & Tazz 	February 22, 2001 - June 28, 2001August 2, 2001 - October 18, 2001April 4, 2002 - June 9, 2006
Jim Ross & Michael Cole 	September 21, 2000July 5, 2001 - August 2, 2001
Jim Ross & Paul Heyman 	September 13, 2001 (Live 9/11 Tribute Show)
Michael Cole & Paul Heyman 	October 25, 2001 - November 15, 2001
Michael Cole and Ernest Miller 	November 28, 2002
Michael Cole & Jonathan Coachman 	January 4, 2008 - April 25, 2008
Michael Cole & Mick Foley 	May 2, 2008 - June 16, 2008
Jim Ross & Mick Foley 	June 23, 2008 - August 1, 2008
Jim Ross & Tazz 	August 8, 2008 - April 3, 2009
Jim Ross & Todd Grisham 	April 10, 2009 - October 9, 2009
Todd Grisham and Michael Cole 	October 16, 2009
Todd Grisham & Matt Striker 	October 30, 2009 – September 24, 2010
Todd Grisham, Michael Cole and Matt Striker 	October 1, 2010 – December 3, 2010
Josh Mathews, Michael Cole and Matt Striker 	December 10, 2010 - January 28, 2011
Josh Mathews & Matt Striker 	March 30, 2012
Michael Cole & Booker T 	April 27, 2012
Michael Cole, Josh Mathews & Booker T 	February 4, 2011 - November 25, 2011December 16, 2011 - July 27, 2012
Michael Cole and Various Guest Commentators 	August 24, 2012
Josh Mathews and Michael Cole 	November 29, 2011 - December 9, 2011January 6, 2012August 3, 2012 - October 5, 2012
Josh Mathews and John "Bradshaw" Layfield 	October 12, 2012 - February 22, 2013January 24, 2014
Michael Cole, Josh Mathews and Jerry Lawler 	March 1, 2013
Michael Cole, Josh Mathews and Brad Maddox 	March 8, 2013 - March 15, 2013
Josh Mathews and Jerry Lawler 	April 5, 2013
Michael Cole, Josh Mathews and John "Bradshaw" Layfield 	December 21, 2012March 22, 2013 - May 24, 2013
Michael Cole and Alex Riley 	August 2, 2013
Michael Cole, John "Bradshaw" Layfield and The Miz 	January 17, 2014
Michael Cole and John "Bradshaw" Layfield 	June 16, 2006 - December 21, 2007May 31, 2013 – August 15, 2014
Tom Phillips and Michael Cole 	October 31, 2014
Tom Phillips, Michael Cole and John "Bradshaw" Layfield 	August 22, 2014 - January 9, 2015
Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler & Byron Saxton 	January 15, 2015 - March 19, 2015April 16, 2015February 18, 2016
Tom Phillips, Jerry Lawler and Byron Saxton 	April 2, 2015 - April 9, 2015April 23, 2015 - June 18, 2015
Tom Phillips, Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Uso 	June 25, 2015 - August 20, 2015
Tom Phillips, Byron Saxton and Jimmy Uso 	July 23, 2015
Rich Brennan, Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Uso 	August 27, 2015 - September 3, 2015
Rich Brennan, Jerry Lawler & Booker T 	September 10, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole & Booker T 	December 22, 2015
Mauro Ranallo and Jerry Lawler 	March 31, 2016
Mauro Ranallo, Byron Saxton & Jerry Lawler 	January 7, 2016 – June 16, 2016July 7, 2016 – July 14, 2016
Mauro Ranallo, Byron Saxton & David Otunga 	June 23, 2016 – June 30, 2016
Mauro Ranallo, Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler & Byron Saxton	July 19, 2016
Mauro Ranallo, JBL & David Otunga 	July 26, 2016 – November 1, 2016
Mauro Ranallo, Tom Phillips, JBL & David Otunga 	November 8, 2016 – March 7, 2017
Tom Phillips & JBL 	March 14, 2017
Tom Phillips, JBL & David Otunga 	March 21, 2017 – April 4, 2017
Tom Phillips, JBL & Byron Saxton 	April 11, 2017 – August 29, 2017
Tom Phillips, Corey Graves & Byron Saxton 	September 5, 2017 – October 10, 2017October 31, 2017 – September 24, 2019
Michael Cole, Corey Graves & Byron Saxton 	October 17, 2017 – October 24, 2017
Tom Phillips, Corey Graves & David Otunga 	December 18, 2018
Michael Cole & Corey Graves 	October 4, 2019 – April 9, 2021September 3, 2021February 11, 2022 – February 18, 2022July 8, 2022September 9, 2022 – September 30, 2022
Michael Cole & Pat McAfee 	April 16, 2021 – September 2, 2022
Michael Cole & Wade Barrett 	October 6, 2022 – August 4, 2023
Michael Cole, Kevin Patrick & Corey Graves 	August 11, 2023 - November 3, 2023November 24, 2023 – December 1, 2023December 15, 2023 – December 22, 2023
Kevin Patrick & Corey Graves 	January 5, 2024 – January 19, 2024
Corey Graves & Wade Barrett 	February 2, 2024 – present
===Ring announcers===
Ring Announcer	Dates
Tony Chimel 	April 1999 - August 2007October 2009 – December 2, 2011November 2, 2012 - November 30, 2012April 5, 2013September 13, 2013November 15, 2013November 15, 2016
Justin Roberts	September 19, 2002April 23, 2003December 4, 2003September 15, 2006April 6, 2007September 2007 - October 2009December 10, 2010March 11, 2011September 16, 2011
Eden Stiles 	July 15, 2011November 11, 2011October 24, 2014 – May 26, 2016
Lilian García 	December 9, 2011- October 26, 2012December 7, 2012 – October 17, 2014November 5, 2015
JoJo 	April 9, 2015- May 28, 2015June 18, 2015July 2, 2015- July 9, 2015October 15, 2015December 10, 2015May 5, 2016 - May 12, 2016June 2, 2016 – July 19, 2016
Josh Mathews 	January 2, 2003
Greg Hamilton 	June 30, 2016July 26, 2016 – October 25, 2019November 8, 2019 – October 22, 2021
Mike Rome 	November 6, 2020 – November 13, 2020June 26, 2021October 29, 2021 – January 7, 2022May 12, 2023 - present
Samantha Irvin	January 14, 2022 – May 5, 2023
==Recurring Segments==
Segment 	Host 	Years 	Notes
Piper's Pit 	Roddy Piper 	20032005 - 2006 	
$1,000,000 Tough Enough	Al Snow 	2004 	
Kurt Angle Invitational	Kurt Angle 	2004–2005 	
Cafe de René 	René Duprée 	2004 	
Carlito's Cabana 	Carlito 	20052008-2009 	
Peep Show 	Christian 	20052010 	
WWE Diva Search 	The Miz 	2006 	
Miz TV 	The Miz 	20122012 – present	
Masterlock Challenge 	Chris Masters 	20072010-2011 	Submission challenge to break Masters' Masterlock hold.
The Cutting Edge 	Edge 	2007–20102011 	
V.I.P. Lounge 	Montel Vontavious Porter	2007–20092010 	
Khali Kiss Cam 	The Great Khali 	2008–2009 	
Word Up 	Cryme Tyme 	2009-2010 	
Highlight Reel 	Chris Jericho 	2010 	
St8 Outta Brooklyn 	JTG 	2010-2011 	
==International broadcasters==
In addition to broadcasts on USA, Universal HD, mun2, and AFN Xtra in the United States,
WWE SmackDown also appears on-air internationally:
Country 	Network
Arab World 	OSN
Argentina 	Fox Sport 2
Australia 	Fox8
Belgium 	AB3
Bolivia 	Red PAT
Bulgaria 	BTV Comedy
Cambodia 	CTN
Canada 	The Score Network, CJNT
Chile 	Chilevisión
Costa Rica 	Repretel: Canal 11
Dominican Republic 	Antena Latina 7
Ecuador 	Teleamazonas
El Salvador 	VTV
Fiji 	Sky Pacific and Sky Fiji
Finland 	MTV3 Max
France 	NT1
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein	SPORT1
Guatemala 	Canal 3
Honduras 	Canal 5
India, Pakistan and South Asia 	TEN Sports
Italy 	Sky Italia
Japan 	J Sports Plus
Kenya 	KBC
Malaysia 	Astro Supersport
Malta 	Melita Sports 1
Mexico 	Azteca 7
Middle East 	Showtime Arabia and ShowSports 4
New Zealand 	The BOX
Nicaragua 	Canal 10 (Nicaragua)
Panama 	RPC(Canal 4)
Paraguay 	Canal 5
Peru 	ATV
Philippines 	Jack TV and Solar TV
Poland 	Extreme Sports Channel
Portugal 	TVI
Puerto Rico 	WAPA
Romania 	Sport.ro
Samoa 	SBC
Serbia 	FOX Televizija
Singapore 	Super Sports
South Africa 	e.tv
Spain 	Marca TV
Sweden 	Eurosports
Taiwan 	Videoland Max-TV
Thailand 	TrueVisions
Turkey 	Fox Turkey
Ukraine 	QTV
United Kingdom and Ireland 	BT Sport
==Previous Logos==
WWF_Smackdown!.png|(1999-2001)
SmackDown.png|(2001-2008)
WWE-SmackDown!_secondary_logo.png|Secondary logo (2006-2008)
SmackDown_02.png|(2008-2009)
Smackdown-Logo-20101.png|10th Anniversary (2009-2010)
New_Smackdown_logo.png|(2010-2014)
Smackdown2014logo.jpg|(2014-2015)
SmackDown 2015 Logo.png|(2015–2016)
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==Theme songs==
"Smack" (TV Edit) - April 19, 2001"The Beautiful People (WWF Remix)" (TV Edit) by Marilyn Manson - August 16, 2001"I Want It All" - 2003"I Want It All" (V2) - September 16, 2004"Rise Up" (Early Instrumental) - September 23, 2004"Rise Up"(TV Edit) by Drowning Pool - September 30, 2004"Rise Up" (TV Edit V2) by Drowning Pool - October 7, 2004"Rise Up" (TV Edit V3) by Drowning Pool - October 21, 2004 "Rise Up" (TV Edit V4) by Drowning Pool - October 28, 2004"Rise Up 2006" by Drowning Pool - 2006"Rise Up 2006" (V2; TV Edit) by Drowning Pool - October 3, 2008"If You Rock Like Me" (TV Edit) by Jim Boggio & Jimi Bell - September 25, 2009"Let It Roll" (TV Edit) by Divide the Day - October 2, 2009"Know Your Enemy" (TV Edit) by Green Day - October 1, 2010"Born 2 Run" (TV Edit) by 7Lions - October 26, 2012"This Life" (TV Edit) by CFO$ feat. Dylan Owen - May 23, 2014"Black and Blue" (TV Edit) by CFO$ - January 15, 2015"Black and Blue" (2nd TV Edit) by CFO$ - January 7, 2016"Take a Chance" (TV Edit) by CFO$ - July 26, 2016
==Gallery==
WWE Smackdown is Moving to Thursday Night.jpg|WWE Smackdown is moving back to Thursday Night 2014
Preshow&postshow.jpg|Smackdown Preshow and Backstage Pass logo
== Best of Smackdown! Logos==
WWE Best of Smackdown!.jpg|Feb 2014–present
==See also==
* World Wrestling Entertainment roster (SmackDown! Brand)
* WWE Velocity
==External links==
* SmackDown Official Website
Category:World Wrestling Entertainment television programs