A live telecast of action-packed matches from a professional wrestling tournament, wherein the world’s best wrestlers take on each other to win the coveted title

WWE SmackDown, also currently referred to as SmackDown Live (stylized as SmackDown LIVE) or simply SmackDown, is a professional wrestling television program that debuted on August 26, 1999. The show’s name is also used to refer to the SmackDown brand, in which WWE employees are assigned to work and perform on that program; currently the other brands are Raw and NXT.

SmackDown is currently broadcast live on Tuesday nights on the USA Network. The show was originally broadcast on Thursday nights but moved to Friday on September 9, 2005, before returning to Thursdays on January 15, 2015,^[8] On July 19, 2016, it was moved to a live broadcast on Tuesday night.^[9]SmackDown!debuted in the United States on the UPN television network on April 29, 1999, but after the merger of UPN and the WB, SmackDown! began airing on The CW in September 2006. The show was moved to MyNetworkTV in October 2008,^[10][11] to Syfy on October 1, 2010^[12][13] and to USA Network on January 7, 2016.^[4][5][6] It complements Raw as the second of WWE’s two main weekly programs. As of March 3, 2017, all archived episodes of the show are available for on demand viewing via the WWE Network