2000 was SmackDown's first full year as an ongoing concern ... although SmackDown shared a similar colour palette to the competition's 'B' show, that was about all the Thursday night weeklies ...

It airs on the USA Network, a popular cable channel available to anyone who pays for television, whereas SmackDown is on Syfy, a channel not available to everyone. Raw was WWE's first big show ...

After two full weeks of truly questionable ... an action-packed and plot hole-filling edition of SmackDown that was as solid as a two-hour show could be. Not only was the episode fast-paced ...