[8.0] "This was a much better show than this week's Raw, which seems to be a pattern recently. Austin/Booker was a really good match. Seems that Austin is the only guy in WWF who will give the spinarooni any credibility, and tbh I thought Booker had him with it late in the match. It was definitely a good match. Trish vs Jazz was pretty cool. Not the match itself but jazz basically killing trish after the DQ. Jazz looks like a beast! I haven't seen a woman heel get this much heat in a while. Crowd is really killing her. Dudleys vs Kane/Big Show table match was a very short one but at least we got kane through a table. RVD killing Regal (without brass knucks) was nice to see. Main event match is Rock vs Angle with Jericho as special commentator. There's tons of interference but it's a really good TV match. So, we get two decently good matches tonight from 4 superstars, with interference from some main players. That's like two regular Raw main events, which I think is amazing for a smackdown. Also, there are also some major plots/stories moving this episode via non-wrestling segments. First, there's HHH vs Stephanie. Looks/sounds like they're heading for a breakup? Then there's Vince with his weird segments going on all episode where he's supposedly talking to himself or a shrink, not sure, but he's alone in a room talking about how he doesn't want to do it but he has to. Of course nobody knows what "it" is, but it has to do with "killing" WWF. At the end we find out that he's bringing "NWO" back, which of course means they get to charge advertisers more for next week's Raw. Well, I wasn't going to watch anymore wrestling today but I definitely have to watch the next Raw now to see what this is all about. Really good smackdown in my opinion."

[7.0] "A solid show, with a good match (SCSA vs BT) & with the announcement of the return of the NWO. It also had some other funny matches"

[7.0] "Some decent matches for contendership but the main attention was about the ending. Just three letters - NwO!"