WWE SmackDown: 5 Interesting facts you didn't know about the show

Modified Oct 21, 2019 05:56 GMT

SmackDown has had quite an interesting two decades

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SmackDown may have only been on television for twenty years, but at that time it has definitely created some interesting history.

The show itself made its debut on April 29th, 1999 and was broadcast on a Thursday night on the United Paramount Network. The show was later moved to Friday nights which is the night it has been most recognizable for in September 2005. Following the merger between UPN and the WB Network, SmackDown moved over to the CW Network in September 2006, a network that only aired the show for two years, since it was announced that the show would move to MyNetworkTV in October 2008.

Just two years later on October 1st, 2010, WWE moved SmackDown over to Syfy, which was best known for also hosting ECW under WWE's umbrella. Whilst on Syfy, SmackDown returned to Thursday nights in January 2015 and the following year switched Network once again when they were moved over to USA Network.

It was on the USA Network that WWE was finally able to air SmackDown Live from July 2016, which changed the show to a Tuesday night instead. This deal only recently came to an end, since WWE moved to Friday nights when they switched over to FOX on October 4th, 2019.

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Edited by Anirban Banerjee