20 Greatest WWE SmackDown Moments Ever
The best of the rest ahead of WWE's biggest EVER television switch...
If a favourite moment is missing from this list, consider complimenting the company before castrating it in the comments section. It speaks to WWE's success over twenty years with a show often derided or demoted by design to prop up its bigger brother on Monday Night.
SmackDown has been all things to WWE at various points over the past two decades. At its apex it was the white hot go-home show during a period of unfathomable success for the organisation. At its nadir a dying recap show in between an abandoned and reborn brand extension. Thanks to a 2002/03 period with Paul Heyman at the backstage helm, it became the favourite of the online majority, and retained a (sometimes undeserved) reputation for being the place great matches still took place.
Though it took this current billion dollar deal with Fox to earn it, the show deserves as big a celebration for the milestone as Monday Night Raw has received seemingly every other week over the past few years. Particularly when reviewing just how much they've slotted in over the years. Even during the darkest days, the mood was anything but blue in the B-Show locker room...
20. He Hurt Kurt
As awkward as it was (literally) gripping, the shoot showdown between Tough Enough competitor and Mixed Martial Arts amateur Daniel Puder and Kurt Angle almost ended in disaster for the Olympian when the trainee very nearly broke his arm in an open challenge.
The storyline called for Angle the bully heel to roughhouse the candidates, but Puder's unexpected skillset left the Hall Of Famer in all sorts of bother before the two rolled into enough of a pinning combination for the referees to count three. Angle looked incensed as he squared up to Puder in the aftermath, with few fans fortunately catching how close he was to capitulation.