The Smack Addict Podcast

Will Vaughan covers his first PPV with Matt as they go over Unforgiven 2002, or at least, the Smackdown side of the show. And what a show! Eddie Guerrero seeks victory of Edge, but can he do it without resorting to cheating? Billy & Chuck battle to save Stephanie from HLA (don’t ask), but do they succeed? Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit have an all time classic technical wrestling match, but is it...

Matt brings back Will Young (with a distinctly Barry White-esque voice) to discuss an episode of Smackdown that features Brock Lesnar going toe-to-toe with a still-not-significant John Cena, years before that would be the main event of a major PPV, as well as a pleasant cruiserweight match between Matt Hardy and the Hurricane, and Chuck Palumbo gets possibly the biggest win of his career, and it’s...

Matt’s good buddy Daniel is in back-to-back episodes because a Commitment Ceremony won’t cover itself! And oh, is that ceremony ever eventful: there’s surprising revelations on all sides, a droning preacher, and even some violence (on a wrestling show, no less). But there’s so much more to it: Brock Lesnar gets weirdly close with Undertaker’s wife, Kurt Angle and Rey Mysterio re-create some Summer...

Daniel Pettipas returns to the podcast to talk to Matt about a show loaded with matches (some good, most ‘eh’), but there are two major events: a face-to-face interview with Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker (complete with a ‘moderator’, which is not how interviews work), and Chuck asks Billy a very important question (after some pointed prompting from the stylist, Rico).

Matt is joined by the incomparable Will Young to take a look at the first silver and blue episode of Smackdown! The show includes a fairly confusing Number One Contender tournament… Or is it a gauntlet? Regardless, the guys spend a fair bit of time on everyone’s favourite stylist, Rico, and they puzzle over the latest member of the blue brand, and why Stephanie was so affectionate on the phone wit...

Is this one of the best PPVs of 2002? Or ever? Join Matt and his friend Brian Campbell as they consider the Smackdown side of the show. Is Kurt Angle vs. Rey Mysterio one of the best openers of all time? How does Eddie Guerrero vs. Edge stack up against other matches in their feud? Does Brock-Rock have that big fight feel? Oh, and does Howard Finkel tarnish his legacy with an all-time terrible pie...

Matt’s brother Will Vaughan makes his return to the Smackdown Six Podcast to cover a show that includes Paul Heyman promising that Brock and Rock would collide just days before their big match at Summerslam, but Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit beat up Rocky (and his buddy, Edge) to set up the main event. Also on the show: the WWE Women’s Championship has its sole defence of the Smackdown Six Podca...

Matt is joined by one of his favourite people, Daniel Pettipas, to take a look at the edition of Smackdown that had Matt Hardy making his Smackdown debut, Brock taking on Rikishi, Kurt Angle and Mark Henry having a surprisingly good match, and the first Smackdown Six-only tag match with Edge & Rey Mysterio vs. Los Guerreros. Also, as the WWE Network says, ‘The Rock competes in a Singles Match’...

On this episode, Matt is joined by his good friend Brian Campbell to go over a highly significant episode of Smackdown: Kurt Angle and (a very young) John Cena battle each other before they get interrupted by four other guys, which leads to a 6-man tag match featuring 5/6ths of the Smackdown Six. Rev. D-Von lost again, Billy & Chuck won, and Brock Lesnar tangles with Hulk Hogan, with a decisiv...

It’s the inaugural episode of the Smackdown Six Podcast, and Matt is joined by Will Vaughan (his brother) to talk about the beginning of the Smackdown Six era: Rey Mysterio (fresh off of his debut) is already blowing people’s minds, Kurt Angle and Hulk Hogan are feuding over who gets to face Brock Lesnar, and Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit make the jump from Raw to Smackdown, ushering in a period...

From the summer of 2002 until early 2004, the best wrestling matches in the world were largely the work of just six men: the Smackdown Six. They were Rey Mysterio, Edge, Eddie Guerrero, Chavo Guerrero, Kurt Angle, and yes, Chris Benoit. They wrestled against each other, they wrestled as tag teams; they were the backbone of Smackdown, and Smackdown the best wrestling show on television. Join Matt V...