Last month marked 20-year-anniversary of WWE SmackDown. This Blue-band show has since provided world with some great athletes and great shows. Wrestlers like John Cena, Rock, Undertaker, AJ Styles, Batista, Randy Orton, and countless ors showcased ir talents in SmackDown and later became WWE legends. WWE SmackDown me its debut in 1999 to compete with WCW’s Thursday night show, Thunder. SmackDown became so famous that WCW h to move Thunder to Wednesday. SmackDown me use of colour blue, earning nickname ' Blue-Band Show' among WWE (formerly kwn as WWF) fans.

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History of WWE SmackDown 

In 2002, WWE underwent ' Brand Extension' which divided WWE into two parts, RAW and SmackDown. anuncement was me on March 2002 and was me official next day. This created a lot of problems, like Brock Lesnar who was n in SmackDown refused to defend his WWE Undisputed Champion title on Raw, which caused title to become a SmackDown exclusive. WWE officials n h to unveil World Heavyweight Championship as a Raw-exclusive title.

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WWE n changed many Networks, between 2006 to 2015, wrestling company telecasted its shows on CW Network, n moved to MyNetworkTV on 2008 and n shifted to Syfy in 2010. SmackDown was with Syfy for five years where it saw many changes. Former wrestler Booker T started commentating for SmackDown, and Blue-Band telecast second-largest episode in American television history. Memorable matches like John Cena vs Big Show and Triple H vs Sheamus were played between se five years. WWE and Syfy officials n decided to telecast all episodes of SmackDown on Fridays, which took ratings of show through roof. 

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In 2015, WWE moved to USA Network and SmackDown was telecasted on Thursday and later it was shifted to Tuesdays. In 2016, WWE saw return of Brock Lesnar and n WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H after main event of SmackDown. In early 2019, WWE came into a five-year-deal with Fox and it is reported that SmackDown will be telecasted on Friday.   

Earlier this week, Brock Lesnar returned to SmackDown Live on Tuesday and delivered an F-5 to WWE Champion Kofi Kingston after challenging him for WWE title. Brock Lesnar earlier lost Universal Championship to Seth Rollins at Wrestlemania following which he was rumoured to make a return to SmackDown. With Brock joining blue-band, WWE is planning to give SmackDown same big st as Monday night RAW before joining Fox. 

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