Smackdown Archives

John Cena battles "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt in a Firefly Funhouse Match at WrestleMania, courtesy of WWE.
Satin writes that "Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT will once again resume taping their shows live from the Performance Center starting next week." Satin says the decision happened on Friday, reversing course from the previous plans. The move is surprising, considering WrestleMania 36, which was taped in advanced and allowed heavy editing of the matches[...]
WWE Superstars Edge and Randy Orton filmed a Last Man Standing Match for WrestleMania 36 that spanned the entire mostly empty Performance Center.
A new report from Fightful claims that WWE is planning a weeklong round of tapings for upcoming episodes of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT In addition, the report claims that the next week of shows, starting with Friday's Smackdown could be aired live WWE had previously taped all of its shows, including WrestleMania, but will now[...]
Michael Cole
After a few false starts, Cole scored a regular announcing gig with the launch of WWE Smackdown in 1999 He was soon joined by Tazz as color commentator Cole served as Smackdown's play-by-play announcer for nearly ten years, moving to WWE Raw in 2008 Cole would eventually replace Jim Ross as the voice of WWE. Longtime announcer[...]
Five women competed for the Smackdown Women's Championship at WrestleMania 36.
The SmackDown Women's Championship was defended in a Fatal Five-Way match at WrestleMania 36 It's the conflict between Sasha Banks and Bayley that's at the heart of the story here though Earlier in the night, Bayley preached unity, but Sasha wants to win this title, friendship be damned Sasha Banks made her way to the[...]