Revisiting WWF SmackDown! 2002 The Final SmackDown! Before The Roster Split, nWo vs Rock, Hulk Hogan, & Kane

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

The Inaugural WWF Draft just happened and this is the final WWF SmackDown! before the roster splits up into two brands. On the March 28th, 2002 episode Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and X-Pac team up to take on Hulk Hogan, The Rock, and Kane. A huge match that features an iconic Kane promo where he starts talking like Hulkamania. Triple H is teaming with Ric Flair for the very first time as both Kurt Angle and Mr. McMahon want to settle the score with Triple H. Stephanie McMahon was fired and now they want revenge. Also, the Dudley Boyz compete for the WWF Tag Team Titles and if they lose they are going to separate brands. Chris Jericho wrestles Matt Hardy, Maven Fights Raven for the WWF Hardcore Championship, and this is the last night for the APA as they both got drafted to opposite shows. This is the last time both brands will be on the same show as the roster split is making RAW and SmackDown! completely unique from each other.

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0:00.0	The boys are back in town. Welcome to the Deadlock Podcast. Episode number 322. 322. That doesn't work as well as last week. Today we are heading to WWE Smackdown, March 28, 2002. Some might call it the WWF.
0:21.6	Mm, you could call it that.
0:23.6	You could also call it the end of an era, James,
0:26.6	because this, this is, of course, the last Smackdown
0:30.6	ever in the history of SmackDown,
0:32.6	ever?
0:33.6	Where the Rawl and Smackdown brands are combined.
0:36.6	This is the Smackdown right after the inaugural draft.
0:42.0	But the rosters have not been splits yet for some reason.
0:45.2	I don't know if we ever really found out why or they don't explain on the show.
0:48.7	They just say this is how it's happening.
0:50.2	So yeah, this is the Final Smackdown with both Raw and Smackdown roster members on it.
0:55.3	I know it brings for an interesting episodes, I must say.
1:00.1	It's a special house show episode.
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