[5.0] "Show was ok. Nothing terrible, but having stephanie be the big announcement was a let down, so I'm docking it a point for that. Also, I don't know why the rock gets to take 3 months off and get a title shot immediately after coming back. Sure he wrestled THIS MATCH tonight, but he was already booked for the title match at the PPV before tonight. I understand they had to do something because the last two PPV main events were TRASH but maybe they can simply have undertaker lose the belt on raw or smackdown before hand to someone like angle, edge, or even jeff hardy? Then put that person vs literally anyone else at the PPV and it would be better than any of the last two main events. whatev. I'm still not sold on Cena as to why they pushed him so hard. He's still the 4th best of the new guys (brock, orton, batista). Apparently they saw something in him that I didn't. The stuff between HHH and steph at the end was pretty good and really all of the segments kept me entertained. The main event was a fun match as well. Like I said, good show overall but they built it on the GM reveal and having it be stephanie was a bummer."

[6.0] "Stephanie's reveal as GM was nowhere near as good as Bischoff's reveal. Other than that, it was a decent go-home show but the main event really shined. It was obvious there would not be a clean finish so at least Rock and Angle got some time to have a good technical match that was back and forth. I liked that the GM reveals came during a go-home week."

[6.0] "I remember being disappointed when I found out Stephanie was the GM when it was announced, but she actually has a good run and I like her presentation here a lot more. It's a decent go home show that sets up all the feuds for Vengeance well and Eric Bischoff invading the show added an intrigue as to how the new GM rivalry would play out. It's a solid wrestling show and unlike Raw hasn't needed a big reset to get the fans engaged."

[5.0] "Smackdown has a huge announcement on it's GM which ends up just being Stephanie. Rock and Bischoff had a fun backstage segment. They announced Triple H picking his brand for the PPV. Rock/Angle had a solid main event up until the DQ to set up the PPV match, overall another fine episode of Smackdown."