| 1 | 18.08.2025 | JimboJobson | 8.0 | Interestingly, the show, and WWE as a whole, was doing very poorly in the ratings at this time, and all the talk was that the draft had watered the product down so much it was really effecting business. Fair enough, the shows weren't always the best, but this week's episode showed that there was still lots of good stuff happening in WWE in the summer of 2002. The opening battle royal was one of the more star-studding matches of this sort I've seen in a while and was good. Even better that it set up a big main event match as well. The Christian vs Val match was quick but fast paced. Angle vs. Holly was terrific, a real hidden gem and the best match these tow ever had in my opinion. We also found out that Hurricane's stalker was his ex-beau; the debuting Nidia. She looked the part, as did her new boyfriend, the also debuting Jamie Noble. Speaking of Tough Enough winners, Linda and Jacky, the controversial season 2 victors, met with Vince and set up a match for Velocity. Torrie Wilson, ahem, 'sucking' a banana whilst visiting Maven in hospital was something to behold. Tajiri's facials whilst investigating them were a blast. After Torrie had given Maven his 'medicine', Tajiri spat the green stuff in their faces. Edge came out to confirm what had been long reported, namely that he was injured and thus forfeit his KotR qualifying match with Jericho, who proceeded to destroy him before big Val made the save. Dawn Marie told Stacey that she has better puppies than her when she ran into her outside Vince's office. Storm vs. Kidman was a short technical match which would have been better if it was 20 minutes rather than 2. The main event was an improvement over their Backlash match, although it seems crazy now that they put a match of this marquee on free TV. |
| 2 | 14.06.2025 | Turnbuckle Breath | 8.0 | |
| 3 | 28.05.2025 | thedaynos | 7.0 | Yeah this is a really good episode of smackdown. The main event was sorta weak. It seemed weird that HHH and Hogan were buddy buddy at the end, like what was that about? Tajiri giving Torrie the green mist in the hospital was awesome. Speaking of the hospital scene, I notice the WWE over the past couple of months has been upping the "attitude" again, with sexual shit and other random things like the vomit from last episode (and austin pissing on people). They're also concentrating on having bigger, almost PPV style, main events. Think of the ladder match, the cage match, now this, I think there were a few others the past couple of weeks. There was the pretty good tag match last week which wasn't a main event but should have been. Anyway, there's a clear shift in their writing and strategy that I appreciate. Back to the review... Not a fan of battle royal's and definitely not a fan of TEST being one of the final 3 guys there, as if he's got a chance to main event a PPV at this point after them trying their asses off to push him at every opportunity in 2001 and finally realizing he isn't "it". Very surprised they gave 7 minutes to hardcore holly vs angle but it was a good match! Nothing here really sucked. |
| 4 | 14.02.2025 | MMSuperBoyo | | |
| 5 | 26.05.2024 | Trombek Kushinika | 8.0 | |
| 6 | 10.05.2024 | Hippykillerz | 8.0 | This was an enjoyable episode, everything flew by and didn't feel like 2 hours at all. A good battle royal to start it off and also sets up a big main event (not the most important as Cole keeps banging on about). A tag title change that ended a rubbish storyline so we can move on so that's good. A good match between Angle and Hardcore helped the match quality of the show. A big focus on the KOTR which was greatly apricated as it was always treated as an afterthought. The ongoing Tajiri/Maven stuff was pretty entertaining as well. A ok main event followed by a good angle to set up future matches was just the nice way to end the show. Great watch and a perfect time capsule of how good 2002 was. |
| 7 | 24.11.2023 | kewf1988 | 8.0 | This was a really good all around episode that was a precursor to what the show ould become in the second half of the year. The only really bad match the whole show was the tag title match and the battle royal, Angle/Holly, and the main event were all really good. Val Venis vs. Christian was also solid despite the questionable result. |
| 8 | 04.10.2023 | AugustBurnsRed | 8.0 | |
| 9 | 20.07.2023 | qaywsxed | 7.0 | |
| 10 | 16.06.2023 | Ruthless Attitude | 8.0 | I have to appreciate how the WWE started constantly booking good main event matches on their shows on both brands at that point and it's what I remember fondly about the Ruthless Aggression era. Triple H and Hulk Hogan was a decent tv main event that in my opinion was much better than their PPV clash. The show is a good palette cleanser after the awful Raw episode that week as it started out with a controversial battle royale that set up the main event. The wrestling matches are consistently good to watch and in general Smackdown had the much better roster. |
| 11 | 05.04.2021 | Neil1505 | 8.0 | 2002 is the best year ever for smackdown, and this is one of the many great episodes from that year. Angle vs. Holly is a great match, and Venis vs. Christian is a good, short match. |
| 12 | 24.12.2020 | BLooD | 6.0 | Durchschnittliche Ausgabe von SmackDown. Der Opener war in Ordnung. Spontane Aktion von Vince eine Battle Royal zu starten wer den Undertaker bei King of the Ring herausfordern darf. Bis auf die Eliminierung Angles durch Holly gab es sonst keine Spektakel. Triple H und Hogan eliminieren sich am Ende gleichzeitig und so hat man auch einen Main-Event. Billy und Chuck vs Rico und Rikishi war schlecht. Der Unsinn mit Rico und Rikishi als Champs hat ein Ende. Man benötigt dringend mehr Tag-Teams. Die geheime Botschafterin für Hurricane entpuppt sich als Nidia die ihren neuen Freund Jamie Noble vorstellt und direkt den Champ attackiert. Big Valbowski vs Christian war schlecht. Angle vs Holly war in Ordnung. Nach dem beide aneinandergeraten waren gab es das Match. Ganz nettes Match sogar. Durchweg waren die kurzen Segmente im Krankenhaus mit Maven Torrie und Tajiri unterhaltsam. Edge musste seinen Platz im King of the Ring Turnier aufgeben und somit ging der Platz an Jericho. Er attackierte den verletzten Edge bis Big Valbowski die Attacke beendete. Kidman vs Storm war schlecht. Lahme Cruiserweight Action. Der Main-Event war in Ordnung. Unterhaltsames Match. Es war klar das Triple H den Undertaker herausfordern darf und dieser und auch Angle attackieren die Faces am Ende. |
| 13 | 19.02.2019 | wrestlingfan1991 | 7.0 | |
| 14 | 05.05.2018 | Smi-48 | 7.0 | Die Show kickt mit einer Contendership Battle Royal, woraus sich auch direkt mehrere Matches für diese Episode ableiten. Smart. Durch einen Ringrichterfehler kommen Billy & Chuck endlich wieder an ihre Gürtel. Nidia stellt dem Hurricane ihren neuen Freund vor - damit ist Jamie Noble endlich bei WWE gelandet. Val Venis fährt zum PPV und Tough Enough hält Einzug bei SmackDown! in Form von einigen Damen. Zwar kann Angle den guten Hardcore Holly besiegen, der erfährt aber gerade einen kleinen Push und bearbeitet Angle auch noch nach der Partie. Edge ist verletzt, was Jericho komplett gleichgültig ist - erst provoziert er, dann verschlimmert er den Status der Verletzung. Erst Morley macht den Safe. Oh. Dawn Marie. Dann ist eine der dunkelsten Stunden der WWE-Geschichte nicht mehr fern. Derweil besucht Dr. Tajiri den verletzten Maven und Schnuckelchen Wilson im Krankenhaus. Storm und Kidman liefern übrigens unter diesen Vorzeichen ein brauchbares Match ab, ebenso wie Holly und Angle. Am Ende genügt ein kleiner Fehler Hogans, um Triple H den Sieg zu ermöglichen. Danach kommen aber nochmal Angle und der Taker in die Halle und vermöbeln die Faces gemeinschaftlich. Ziemlich bunte Show, es ist auch ordentlich was los und die Matches könnten auch schlechter sein - eine seriöse SmackDown! Episode. |
| 15 | 11.09.2017 | CM Guevara | 6.0 | Die Show hat einen roten Faden und ist vollgepackt mit Stories und kein Match kommt random daher. Es ist auch schön, dass Undercard-fehden wie Maven/ Tajiri Spotlight in Form von Backstage-Segmenten bekommen. Wrestlerisch ist hier allerdings nichts Erwähnenswertes zu finden und es wird bestenfalls Durchschnittliches geboten. Triple H vs Hulk Hogan im Main Event könnte rein von der Ansetzung natürlich auch ein Hauptkampf bei Wrestlemania sein, ist hier aber recht kurz vorgetragen. Insgesamt eine Show die Spaß macht, weil sie durch die vielen kleinen Stories unterhaltsam ist, aber eben auch nichts Außergewöhnliches darstellt. |
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