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SmackDown! was the absolute fucking tits during this era. Best set, best roster, best action, Eddie Guerrero coming into his own, cruiserweight action with Rey, Chavo, Ultimo Dragon, Undertaker always on the hunt for he WWE title, JBL shenanigans, gorgeous fresh United States title belt design, Stephanie McMahon at her hottest as SmackDown! GM, Kurt Angle being a dimes machine, Chris Benoit putting on wrestliing clinics weekly, Dawn Marie, Torrie Wilson and Sable taking their clothes off weekly, Tazz and Michael Cole bantz without Vince in their ear; it just didn't stop. It was ultimately the better show despite not being live.
You flip over to RAW and Triple H is cutting a promo that is just going on and on and on and on and on. He was literally gifted the world belt without winning it, wrestling for it or even having it be in a tournament, he started his own faction to be the Horseman 2.0 an all the members benefited from Hunter being in the main event picture, he kept RVD, Booker T, Chris Jericho, Kane and a lot of others from ever sniffing the main event scene, he was in world title matches at three consecutive WrestleMania's in a row, one where he buried Booker T in a humilating fashion, another where he bored the crowd to tears after Rock and Hogan tore it the hell down, he ruined Randy Orton's original title run, he caused Kane's unmasking and this was after the gross-ass Katie Vick story to bury him, he consistently buried WCW stars despite losing the title to Goldberg, and he more or less hot potatoed the belt between himself and his friends. You turn on RAW and it just felt that so much talent was being wasted but they couldn't bring themselves to go to the B-show.
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