The Smack Addict Podcast

On this week’s episode, Matt and Daniel bid a fond farewell to Edge, 1/6 of the titular grapplers on our podcast, as he wrestles his last match on the podcast. Undertaker encounters a surprising former WCW wrestler, Chris Benoit takes on A-Train, and Brock Lesnar and John Cena go head-to-head in a match that would go on to become a major main event spectacle, but on this occasion, it was just a Th...

The first Smackdown of February 2003 begins with a crane shot. No, the camera’s not on a crane (though maybe it is?), there’s an actual crane in the arena! And it’s a gift for Undertaker! Matt and Kris discuss Big Show’s gift for the deadman, as well as two pretty wonderful matches, and a bunch of very short ones. We’re on the road to No Way Out 2003, so join us!

This week, Matt and Will try to answer the greatest question of our time: did Paul Heyman bring a bellhop outfit and bicycle with him to this show? If that isn’t enough for you, this episode also covers Vince McMahon’s response to Hulk Hogan’s challenge, setting up a major re-match at No Way Out. Also, Team Angle seeks their first shot at the tag team titles, but they have to go through Edge and C...

On this week’s podcast, we cover the first Smackdown episode after Royal Rumble 2003. Every member of Team Angle was in action, with Charlie Haas facing Chris Benoit, Shelton Benjamin facing Edge, and Kurt Angle going up again Rey Mysterio. But the last section of the episode is, in some ways, the most interesting, as Stephanie McMahon’s supposed ‘bombshell’ arrives at Smackdown and takes over the...

It’s one of the biggest shows of the year, and speaking of Big Shows, Paul Wight opens the show to go toe-to-toe with Brock Lesnar, to see who will enter the Royal Rumble match itself! Matt & Will also discuss a bad world title match, a great world title match, and the 30 man, one-man-goes-to-main-event-Wrestlemania-stipulated match, the Royal Rumble. Who will win? Listen to find out!

We are mere days away from the Royal Rumble, so naturally, this show features multiple segments at a wake! But there are also a couple of important tag team matches: Los Guerreros have to fend off John Cena and B2 in the hopes that they retain their tag team titles, and Team Angle squares off with Edge and Chris Benoit, just 72 hours before Benoit goes head-to-head with Kurt Angle for the WWE titl...

Have you ever wondered what the maximum number of matches is that you could stuff into a two hour wrestling show? Well, they tried here, and this week’s episode of the podcast covers a night with nine matches. Yes, nine! One less than 10! And they’re all real, honest-to-goodness matches. While Matt and Daniel try to keep up with the match-up madness, there’s also a honeymoon taking place, with a s...

What’s this? A LIVE episode of Smackdown, a famously pre-taped show? Yes, it’s live, and it’s full of strange energy! So join Matt and Will as Kurt Angle assaults a referee and the ring announcer, Brock Lesnar gets his head split open with a chair (and beats the hell out of Matt Hardy to make up for it), and Dawn Marie and Al Wilson finally tie the knot, but the wedding is a little… unconventional...

If you like people hyping some video footage for a full hour before showing it to you, this is the show for you. Apparently Brock Lesnar did a number on Kurt Angle the week before this, but you’ll just have to wait to see it! Kurt’s knee is destroyed, but that doesn’t mean he’s dropping the WWE title (there’s a #1 Contender’s match to see who will face him at Royal Rumble), and he’s also not alone...

It’s the fallout from Armageddon, and Matt and Will are digging into it! The in-ring action is sparse this week, but the intrigue around the WWE Title (and who is managing who) is thick. One main event involving Brock Lesnar is suggested, delayed, and finally indefinitely postponed by Kurt Angle, our new WWE champion. Elsewhere, Bill Demott dominates some geeks, and the Big Show makes a push for t...

The end is here! The end of WWE’s 2002 PPV schedule, that is. On this week’s episode, Matt and Kris cover a PPV with only three Smackdown matches, but they all answer important questions: is A-Train being pushed as a top wrestler? Will Chris Benoit become the de facto #1 Contender for the WWE Title? And who will be the champion who faces him, Big Show or Kurt Angle? Plus, we get to find out what r...

It’s the go-home show for Armageddon 2002, and Matt and Daniel have a pretty questionable episode of the show on their hands: there are multiple crimes, horrible accusations, and even content that seems to be cut from the show at random. That said, do you enjoy when Kurt Angle tosses big men around? Or long extended interview segments? Well, if so, you’re in for a treat! Hop in, we’re on the way t...

Matt and Will cover a Smackdown episode that has a real firecracker of a main event: a fatal fourway elimination match to determine the #1 Contender for the WWE title, and all four competitors are members of the Smackdown Six! Elsewhere on the show, the card for Armageddon begins to shape up, with Albert re-debuting on Smackdown and attacking both Rey Mysterio and Edge, and Dawn Marie reveals some...

Gobble gobble, it’s American Thanksgiving 2002 on the Smackdown Six Podcast! Matt and his buddy Brian have to contend with a first for the podcast: a truly bad episode of wrestling on television. Smackdown’s GM seems to become evil overnight, and the reason given is both shocking and offensive! But there’s also a pretty decent tag team match, and Brock Lesnar does at least one cool thing, so it’s...

It’s time to deal with the fallout from Survivor Series 2002, so get excited! Just don’t throw anyone through a wall, alright? Matt is joined once again by Will Young, and they explore things like: What would a Charlie Haas-Redd Dogg tag team be called? Is Brock Lesnar a source of mortal danger? Is it right to proactively throw guys out of a wrestling match? Is John Cena vs. Rikishi a ‘great match...

Matt and Brian team up to take on one of the biggest shows of the year, Survivor Series! Can Brock Lesnar prove Paul Heyman wrong and actually beat Big Show? Can the members of the Smackdown Six work together to create an all-time great match? Can Billy Kidman overcome his crippling plainness and beat Jamie Noble for the Cruiserweight title? Can the Smackdown Six podcast cover enough of the Elimin...

We are on the cusp of Survivor Series, but first, Matt and Kris have some last minute matches to get to! Significantly for this podcast, the Smackdown Six pair off and wrestle each other in three matches, including one between a tag team? Zuh? Also, Torrie Wilson calls out her father for his relationship with Dawn Marie, and Big Show threatens to call out WWE Champion Brock Lesnar, but Paul Heyman...

It’s a two-out-of-three falls kind of episode on the Smackdown Six Podcast! Matt and Daniel talk through the WWE Tag Team Title match-up between the infighting champions (Misters Angle and Benoit) and the number one contenders (Misters Edge and Mysterio) that will go all the way to three falls, PLUS Eddie Guerrero gets to take on Brock Lesnar in a non-title match, Big Show continues to cause probl...

Boo! Did I scare you? No? Well, what does scare you? Internal strife among the WWE Tag Team Champions? The beginning of a new gimmick that will launch John Cena into the stratosphere for years to come? What about an extra angry Latino Heat? How about a young cruiserweight get launched into the crowd? Or, if all those fail to truly frighten you, maybe you’ll be unsettled (at the very least) by an e...

Have you ever wanted to watch a wrestler go from a nobody to a main eventer in one night? Well, the fine folks at Smackdown thought so back in late October 2002, leading to a show that is chock full of Big Show, Big Show, and more Big Show. Join Matt and his buddy Brian as they try to make sense of Paul Wight’s sharp ascent to the place beyond the upper mid-card, as well as Undertaker’s self-aggra...

Matt brings on Daniel Pettipas for his first PPV on the Smackdown Six Podcast, and it’s a pretty great one: No Mercy 2002. On the Smackdown side of things, the first couple matches aren’t anything to get excited about, but the WWE Tag Team Title Tournament comes to a thrilling conclusion, and the main event is inside Hell in a Cell, so the back half of this show is as strong as anything you put it...

Matt and his eldest brother Will Vaughan cover a very Canadian episode of Smackdown in Toronto, featuring the two semi-final matches of the WWE Tag Team Title tournament, one of which is extra good. Also featured on the show: the crowd in Toronto makes history as they make fun of John Cena, Stephanie announces whether or not the Undertaker can wear his cast at No Mercy, and Al Wilson is caught in...

Matt is joined by first-time co-host Kris Dmytrenko to discuss a dramatic-yet-tawdry episode of Smackdown. Eddie and Chavo Guerrero try their hardest to drive a wedge between tag-team-partners-who-hate-each other Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, while Jamie Noble goes missing and can’t make it to the main event of the show. But perhaps most significantly, Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman introduce the wor...

Matt is back with his old friend Daniel Pettipas to cover a Smackdown where Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit just can’t leave each alone, Matt Hardy goes up against the Undertaker in a Falls Count Anywhere match (with WWE Champion Brock Lesnar making an appearance and causing a significant injury to the Dead Man), and we are told that the upcoming No Mercy main event will take place inside an ominous s...

Brian Campbell (not the CBS reporter, or the NHL player, or the soup) joins with Matt to discuss the fallout from Unforgiven 2002. Edge and Eddie Guerrero take to the skies to finish off their feud in one of the best Smackdown matches of all time, Undertaker gets attacked by Brock Lesnar after a match and is in pretty rough shape, and Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, and Chris Benoit come together for a...