The Smack Addict Podcast

Smackdown returns to Toronto with a big contract signing, but weirdly for wrestling, it’s for a person, not a match! Also, the WWE champion, Brock Lesnar, is put in a wildly unfair as a result of his actions on last week’s episode! Also, Kurt Angle embraces hip hop! Furthermore, Billy Gunn and Jamie Noble tangle, leading to Noble proposing a rather… not-decent proposal? Is that the phrase? Also, S...

The Smack is back, baby, because this is a pretty fun episode of Smackdown, complete with decent matches and even some okay backstage segments! It starts off hot with a cruiserweight match, there’s a solid tag team title match, and there’s even an intriguing turn! Brock and Kurt have some competitive fun together, and even factor into a convoluted main event, which is part of the only thing draggi...

Smackdown is coming to you live (to tape) from the World’s Most Famous Arena (if you forget the Coliseum in Rome exists), Madison Square Garden. And it’s a big show! There’s a big main event six-man tag featuring Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle, and Mr. America, plus some other guys! And, spoiler, it’s the last dance for Mr. America on the podcast, so Matt and Will get into the intrigue. Also, Ultimo Dra...

It’s run-ins galore on this episode of Smackdown, with guys running in to beat down and/or save other guys time and time again. There are fun little matches in here, but the whole night is leading to the main event, where there is Unfinished Business between Brock Lesnar and Big Show. Also, there’s an elaborate plot to embarrass Zach Gowen, which naturally ends with a woman tearily recounting crim...

It’s the 200th episode of Smackdown, and you wouldn’t know it if we didn't tell you! Lucky for you, Matt and Will are here to talk about Roddy Piper’s (almost) final appearance of this 2003 run and why he was fired, as well as Kurt Angle’s ousting of Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin from Team Angle, a pretty ridiculous arm wrestling contest, plus the infamous ending to the episode’s main event, w...

Matt and Daniel get to a cover a decent episode of Smackdown this week, and there are two major headlines: the first is Kurt Angle’s return, the second is a big cruiserweight title match-up between Matt Hardy and Rey Mysterio. Will Rey come out on top with his family in the front row? Will Matt Hardy continue to use his pesky Mattitude Followers to retain his title? Does anybody remember Listerine...

Check your pulse, get your story straight, and stop sweating: it’s time to tell the truth. That’s right, it’s time to pay the piper (no, not Roddy), because Mr. America is going to get strapped to a lie detector and forced to tell his darkest secrets at Vince McMahon’s prompting. But, it’s wrestling, so do you think things really go according to plan? Like, really? Anyway, there’s also a decent ta...

The fallout to Judgment Day is here, and Vince McMahon is mad! His rage leads to a main event between Sean O’Haire and Mr. America with a convoluted set of stipulations. The best match of the show (and of the month… or last few months, even) is a rematch between Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri and Team Angle, which opens the show and kicks things off with a boom! Also, Sable picks a fight with Tazz, S...

Do you like tag team ladder matches with fun endings? You got it here. Do you enjoy physical beauty contests? You got it here. Do you need a gimmicky-but-fun WWE title match? You got it here. Do you enjoy watching old guys fight? No? Well, that’s here too. It’s the last non-Big Four dual-branded PPV, it’s Judgment Day 2003, so hop in and get judged!

Judgment Day is just around the corner (wasn’t Backlash like, two weeks ago?) so the good folks at WWE need to fill out the PPV card, so Vince McMahon shows up to find a hired gun to take out Mr. America. Will he pick any one of the hot new bad guys on Smackdown? Or will he make the least logical choice? Also, who will Eddie team with to go for the tag team titles at Judgment Day? And what’s he do...

It’s a very special episode of the Smackdown Six Podcast, because this episode was taped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Matt and his two guest co-hosts (his brothers, Will and Alex) were there to take it in live! Join them to wax nostalgic about Smackdown, Raw, and even a press conference involving a very cancelled wrestler! Hear about the Vaughan brothers’ firsthand experience in-house for these li...

Backlash was only a few nights ago, but the upcoming Judgment Day PPV is only three weeks away, so this post-PPV Smackdown is moving quickly to establish some feuds: Los Guerreros are leaning into the ‘steal’ part of their ethos, pilfering various wares from Team Angle, Brock Lesnar is taking exception to Big Show swing (and drop) of Rey Mysterio, Sable is teaming with Torrie for some reason, and...

After covering a Wrestlemania that is so beloved in wrestling’s public consciousness, the Smackdown Six Podcast now has to reckon with Wrestlemania’s designated aftermath PPV: Backlash 2003. Does it live up to Wrestlemania XIX? No. Does it have rewarding backstage segments? Not at all. Is there a lot to talk about? You better believe it! Kevin Nash is back in WWE now! Goldberg is playing around in...

With only 72 hours between this Smackdown episode and the upcoming Backlash PPV, the show’s creative team pioneered an approach to putting a show like this together: just put a bunch of John Cena in there. (The headline for this show: You CAN see him.) But there’s also Sable, and whatever the Sable Invitational is! And the FBI are around, hassling Chris Benoit! And apparently Brock Lesnar is a ser...

We’re only 10 days away from Backlash, and there’s one big question we’re asking: how do you make a tournament final dramatic when the winner is pretty obvious? It’s Cena-Benoit in the main event of tonight’s show, and they make it all about R-E-S-P-E-C-T. But settle down, Aretha, there’s more! Rey Mysterio embarrasses Big Show, prompting a possible PPV match-up, if Show can find Stephanie. (Where...

We continue to cover the #1 Contender’s Tournament to see who will face Brock Lesnar for the WWE title at Backlash. Rhyno and Benoit are friends, but will they still be buds after their semifinal match? And does John Cena have a hope of beating the Undertaker? And what are the Full Blooded Italians up to? Join Matt and Kris as they talk it out!

It’s the first show after Wrestlemania, and the new WWE champion is nowhere to be found, so what do you do? Well, you fill the night up with a tournament, where eight men battle it out to determine who will face Brock Lesnar at Backlash. Also, there’s a surprise appearance by someone who seemed like they’d never come back to WWE, so hit play and find out who came back!

The set is built, the ring is up, the pyro is set, the seats are filled (mostly); it’s time for Wrestlemania XIX. Hit play to find out if Rey Mysterio or Matt Hardy come out on top! Or why it’s tough for the Spanish announcers to cover the rest of the show after the Hogan-McMahon match! Or why the main event is the battle of two guys who end up ridiculously hurt! Tally-ho, Smack Addicts: it’s Wres...

We’re pulling into the parking lot of Wrestlemania (that is to say, we're near the end of the road), and we’re in San Jose for one final Smackdown before the big PPV on Sunday. Matt and Daniel take a look at the final push for Wrestlemania, and Daniel is full of improved booking decisions for a show that could use some. The last section of the show is special, as a few key elements fall into place...

We’re only 10 days away from Wrestlemania, so it’s time to make fans excited to buy the show! Matt and Will talk about the fallout from last week’s WWE title ‘match’, which leads to some interesting implications for the main event of ‘Mania, some tag teams pair off for matches, and Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan get together to sign a contract for their match, er, fight. Nothing bad ever happens at...

On this episode, there’s a match to determine the #1 Contenders for the WWE Tag Team Titles has a less-than-definite ending, so who will face Team Angle at Wrestlemania? Also, who will answer Matt Hardy’s open challenge? And finally, should we get excited about a much-hyped WWE World Title match when there’s only five minutes left in the show when it gets started? And did WWE mess with their fans...

We’re on the road to Wrestlemania, so we’ve got a fun triple threat cruiserweight match to kick things off, followed by a big non-title match for Team Angle. But the whole show is building toward a cage match between Brock Lesnar and his former agent Paul Heyman, and if Brock wins, he has a rather unusual match set up for the next week. But will Brock win? And does the arrangement that Stephanie m...

We’re only a few days removed from No Way Out, and this episode features a few new beginnings, both for first-timers and for former ECW wrestlers! There’s even an extended segment that features a rare re-do for the televised audience, which is fun! But there are a few big questions to answer: what’s next for Hulk Hogan after being screwed in Montreal? Will Brian Kendrick last five minutes against...

In theory, a PPV that features the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and Hulk Hogan should be one the most consequential in wrestling history, and this is… not the case. So what’s the deal with No Way Out 2003? Why does Hogan-Rock II feel a little flat? Why does JR screaming ‘Stone Cold’s back!’ feel like the end of something, instead of the beginning? And how can something as simple as...

No Way Out 2003 is mere days away, and this episode feels… different. Matt and Will try to figure out what makes it feel the most off: is it the two minute matches? The extended (though very funny) promo segments with The Rock and Hulk Hogan? Or is it yet another Big Show-Undertaker-crate segment? Grab your trustiest cocker spaniel (yes, there’s a cocker spaniel in this episode) and listen up, or...