so dudes like the ruthless agression era now?

[Nintendough]

Smackdown ran that era. I miss watching Angle put on classics.

 

[Da King]

Smackdown ran that era. I miss watching Angle put on classics.

HBGOAT carrying Angle to back to back classics

 

[Nintendough]

HBGOAT carrying Angle to back to back classics

The Kliq tends to make greatness seem even greater.

 

[TNC]

The Kliq tends to make greatness seem even greater.

The better man won that fued.

WrestleMania counts twice.

 

[Nintendough]

The better man won that fued.

WrestleMania counts twice.

The fans won the most.


The good days...

 

[DougFunnY]

Angle vs Benwah at the 03 Rumble was the GOAT match of that era...along with Angle vs HBK at Mania 21.

Smackdown was on FIRE back then...remember when Austin whooped Booker T's ass in the supermarket? That shyt was too funny

 

[Rack4K]

PAWG GM Stephanie was an important part of my early teenage years

 

[The Push Man]

Smackdown Six

 

[Da King]

HBK/HHH/Benoit was the highlight of that era


damn, I remember dudes saying that era was wack back then, now we look back like

 

[FakeNews]

This was the 02-04/05 era right? If so I agree smackdown had shyt on lock

 

[DougFunnY]

I remember Rey mysterios debut was a BIG deal back then...back when he was still good. That nikka is a shell of his former self.

I remember I rented Cenas "Thug Life" dvd from blockbuster. Lol

 

[DougFunnY]

Double...I meant to say "Word life" dvd, btw

 

[Scotch Hall]

I remember rey coming, that was huge and I got that John DVD
welcome to tsc!

 

[InstantKlassik]

It seems like things in wrestling often end up looking better in retrospect than they did when they were current, 5-10 years from now people are probably gonna be saying "remember the PG Era when D.Bryan and Punk was running shyt on Raw and putting on classics every week "

But with that said, Smackdown during 2002-2003 was G.O.A.T. Raw wasn't even close. Those Angle/Benoit, Eddie/Chavo, Edge/Rey combinations EVERY SINGLE WEEK was something to behold. Also, the rise of Brock Lesnar was fun to watch.. just overall, great, great stuff. The best thing over on Raw was a PRIME Trish Stratus starting in 02' when she would wrestle every week in those tight ass pants and low cut tops, she was on another level.

The Ruthless Agression Era is looked down upon because it was a transitional period for WWE at the time coming off the Attitude Era which was other wordly, and Rock and Austin weren't around EVERY WEEK as the superstars of the company, and they were searching for the next guy to carry the ball.

Remember when it seemed like they were having this match every week after the initial WWF draft


I would say Smackdown started to fall off around 2004 when they started to debut the worthless big guys like Matt Morgan, Nathan Jones, Luther Reigns, Mordecai, Mark Jindrak, and A-train.






EDIT: Remember when they botched and made the announcement of Undertaker vs. Triple H at Backlash for the Undisputed title had them nikkas face off in the ring and everything, then they changed it to Triple H/Hogan
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[Mr. Manhattan]

The Rock vs Undertaker vs Kurt Angle was just

produced the 2nd greatest Wrestlemania of all time

Remember Brock lesnar and Big Show destroying the ring on smackdown