Revisiting WWF SmackDown 2001 Debut Of SmackDown FIST Stage & First Ever LIVE SmackDown On UPN, Sammy Guevara Wins TNT Championship Against

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

DEADLOCK

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 210 minutes

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Summary

WWF has taken over WCW and ECW in 2001 and WWF is now in the midst of the Invasion angle where the WWF faced The Alliance with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the top heel on The Alliance side. With the rise of the internet, WWF wanted to see if having a live SmackDown would help ratings so in 2001 we had the very first LIVE WWF SmackDown. This episode of SmackDown featured a lot of things: it's live on UPN, the debut of the SmackDown fist stage, the very first Stone Cold Invitational, and the very first Lights Out match in the main event as Booker T faces The Rock before SummerSlam. Sammy Guevara faced Miro on AEW Dynamite for the TNT Championship & actually won the title! Rhodes To The Top, a new Cody Rhodes reality show, debuted on TNT after Dynamite and the boys review Rhodes To The Top Season 1 Episode 1. The VICE Dark Side of the Ring covered Atsushi Onita & FMW. To cap the week off, Orange Cassidy & Jack Evans faced in a hair vs hair match on AEW Rampage. Deadlock Discord: https://discord.gg/E4BvR4W Deadlock Shop: https://shop.deadlockpw.com Deadlock Patreon: https://patreon.com/deadlockpw Deadlock Twitter: https://twitter.com/deadlockpw Deadlock Instagram: https://instagram.com/deadlockwrestling Deadlock Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/deadlockpw https://deadlockpw.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The boys are back in town. Welcome back to the Deloitte Park as episode number 110.
0:08.6	We have a really stacked week for you this week. Too much of a lot of stuff.
0:13.0	Didn't realize. We're going to be talking about WWF Friday night SmackDown from August 6th.
0:18.8	I'm sorry, that's the wrong date. No, it's not of August 16th, 2001.
0:23.1	What date was that? Observer notes. I think I would say August 16th.
0:27.6	Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right.
0:30.4	Okay, that's SmackDown, of course, which is the first ever SmackDown Fist I believe.
0:35.6	Yes, that is the debut of the SmackDown Fist, the debut of the beautiful people.
0:40.9	And according to Paul Heyman on commentary, the first edition of SmackDown that was live,
0:45.8	not all of that's true, or if it was just the first time live on UPN.
0:48.7	And it's the first ever lights out match, too, in the main event.
0:51.2	How's that even the thing? I can't believe it.
0:53.9	I didn't look too far into it. I just took up a face value.
0:59.2	We're also going to be talking about AEW Dynamite from this past week.
1:02.2	Yes. AEW rampage. Roads to the top.
1:05.7	But we're also going to be talking about dogs out of the ring.
1:09.6	Oh, I forgot. I forgot we had to do that.
1:13.7	This is so stagged. Why do we have so much?
1:17.8	I don't know. Why do we do that?
1:19.6	No clue.
1:20.5	I just see, obviously, you know, Tony's going to be here sometimes, and sometimes he's not.
1:26.0	If you don't like it, whatever.
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