You know the most important part of watching a SmackDown from the year 2000 if that theme

song.

You know the one it basically goes, and that is just the song that played over and over

and over again if you were a fan of the SmackDown video game on the PS1, PS2, whatever

the hell it was.

It's in your head and there's something about it and I really enjoyed it.

I'm not going to play it on guitar this week, if you don't know what I'm talking about,

go back and watch.

The last episode of retro ups and downs, this one was just a little bit harder than the

Raw.

Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, that's the truth.

And if you are wondering why this is the highest rated episode of SmackDown in history

when I have four words for you, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

The backlash paid for you was just around the corner and the big sell for that was that

the rouse mate was going to be on WWF television for the first time in six months and just as

a little bit of a taster as it turned out on this evening, he was also going to be on

the blue bread.

This had all come after he'd been run down at the Survivor Series 1999 in a car and who

the hell would do something like that and of course in reality, it was all the problems

that Stone Cold Steve Austin had with his neck after Owen Hart dropped him on it at

SummerSlam 1997 and honestly when you go read up about that, it was bad.

So really, he was playing fast and loose with his injuries, which is why here, even at

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