SmackDown in 2004 was INSANE!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The Ruthless Aggression era was truly an iconic time to be a wrestling fan for many of us who grew up during it. We will never get the iconic matches and epic moments we were lucky enough to witness.. However the era also had a lot of pure INSANITY. Some of the weirdest and wildest storylines we had ever seen, some of the most crazy characters we had ever seen, and as silly as it was at times. It was made that era so special. It was the era that gave us John Cena, Prime Kurt Angle, Randy Orton, and so on.. and when I think of that era there was one year and one show that sticks out to me.. SMACKDOWN IN 2004. For some reason in 2004 Smackdown was truly insane. Some of the craziest storylines we had ever seen took place that year, yet its a year that a lot of people seem to forget.. while not anymore.. here we go!
R.I.P to the Attitude era and the Ruthless Aggression era. The golden years of wrestling
This is why wrestling was good back then and absolutely sux today. Idk how to explain it to ppl who have only been watching the past decade. It’s lame now. Corny and safe and just way too cutsie. How “respectful” it is towards women. How it’s never controversial or “offensive.” That stuff was wild and funny like Howard Stern or Jackass or Jerry Springer. Now It’s like Captain America hijacked the program and is now showrunner. Maybe it’s just what is cool with the younger generation now, PC. RIP wrestling for adults
@@Geojr815 Politically correct heels is the stupidest thing I've ever seen in wrestling.
@@Geojr815 At one point, Joe Gacy had a PC/Woke gimmick in NXT, but they pulled the plug insanely quick on it, lol. It had the same insufferable presentation as Bo Dallas' positivity-bro gimmick, sad it fell through so soon.
Definitely the best eras !
@@Geojr815 Yeah Benoit stopped all that real quick. And since it's a business, they can't get away with what they used to back then without getting canned by their current sponsors. Not to mention all the twitter, woke SWJ stuff that is all now mainstream.
SmackDown in 2004 was truly insane. From Kurt Angle being GM and tranquilizing and shaving the Big Show, to JBL and Eddie Guerrero's feud, to the Undertaker covering Paul Bearer in concrete, to John Cena getting "stabbed" in a nightclub. It was pretty much the Wild West at that time.
The tranquilizing is one of those moments that really stand out haha Kurt's expression when they take that photo hahaha. I cant remember if this was 2004 or early 2005 but JBL fighting that blow up Godzilla too hahaha
Kurt Angle and head shaved Big Show easily can became Perc version of Krillin and Huge version of Tenshinhan 😆
Well, Even Ultra Instinct Goku would died 😅
Job Bradshaw lamefield
@@exiaR2x78 It was early 2005, when they had an episode of SmackDown in Tokyo, Japan. That segment was....something.
yes that's what he said.
2003-2005 was the era that even adults were doubting themselves if wrestling was indeed fake or not. The lack of social media back then made me believe they're indeed enemies inside and out of the ring
facts!! 😂
Social media ruined pro wrestling
Nah, by the attitude era people knew if was all a show but it was so good no one cared. For my generation what really settled the fake/real debate was the death of Owen Hart. We all knew what we had happened and we all just knew what it was.
Yes, Smackdown! was more exciting than Raw during that time period (Evolution obsessed Raw kinder of got boring, imo) It started lagging when Cena moved to Raw, but it was inevitable.
@morgancarolan8680 buddy it was known that it was fake long before social media
Kurt Angle getting chokeslammed off the balcony was some wild shit in 2004
Watching it as a kid I really thought Kurt was hurt for real. Attitude era couldn’t compare to how graphic that segment looked lol
@jasonjay1053 except the time foley got thrown off the top of hell in a cell?
I really thought he was dead when I saw that as a kid.
I saw that shit as a kid and I thought he was dead lol the pool of blood under his head just made me think that
@@jasonjay1053 try again. Attitude era was doing crazy shit every show. There wasn’t much rules back then so anything goes. Mfs were climbing areas of the arena and jumping off onto another dude😂hurting both.
Smackdown in 2004 was fun with the return of Undertaker as Deadman and Big Show, Eddie's reign as WWE champ while JBL became an mega heel/main eventer. The rise of Cena was incredible, along with the midcard scene and Angle as GM. The rivalries between Eddie vs Angle and Eddie vs JBL was an must see
Cena vs JBL in 2005 was so great, well done and iconic
@dusk6159 It was an incredible and underrated feud that made Cena an elite main eventer and took his career to an whole another level of superstardom.
idk how people forgot mick foley!!!! he has beef with everyone lol especially with randy Norton, CRAZY TIMES!!!
@@Seriesxnation this is Smackdown 2004 not Raw 2004
@@mbeas9612People never want to give JBL his flowers but he made Cena into a Main Eventer Cena improved drastically while feuding with JBL.
If you’re a John Cena fan, you’d love SmackDown in 04-05.
Raw was better in 04-05 but SmackDown was good
@@jumpman2326Cena, Eddie and JBL made the best of SmackDown at that time
@@wwewrestlingandgaming4136True while on Raw Triple H Edge Randy Orton was carrying the show.
@@jumpman2326dge wasn’t good in 04 he got booed in Canada. He sucked as a face
I loved all years of wwe if the homie cena was in it
My favourite wrestling youtuber of all time
Facts fr fr even though I don't agree with him on everything.
He’s like the RUclipsr that doesn’t sounds nerdy when talking about wrestling
@@USHARDY Sometimes he’s a bit too relaxed and it doesn’t sound professional enough
SMARKFEST CHANNEL
@@danielborgman4308stfu if you don’t like how he sounds don’t watch
2004 Smackdown was what got me into wrestling , first thing I ever saw was The Undertaker during his ring walk. Instantly my favorite wrestler and haven’t ever looked back .
That JBL at the border bit was hilarious 😂. And it lead to an incredible rival between him and Eddie Guerrero
Bradshaw turning JBL was one of the best gimmick changes and best thing on Smackdown.
and then him never winning clean but some how always getting a loop hole win was so good.
@@LordJudgement1818 It was so good WWE did it again 13 years later with Jinder Mahal
@@TimmyTickle do love me some jinder
Funny thing is Bradshaw was the gimmick, JBL was him just being himself according to all the wrestlers 🤣
Bro you gotta talk about Kane in the summer of 03 going psychotic, feuding with Shane McMahon. Literally insane…Kane literally getting kicked into a dumpster fire, severe car crash, hospital fights, setting JR on fire, electrocuting Shane O Mac’s testicles!!! Most insane storyline.
This was the first year I can remember watching wrestling as technically, according to my parents, I did watch Wrestlemania 18 in Toronto but 04 when I was 7 was when I personally can actually remember watching it first as a kid. I was always a Smackdown guy since we didn't have cable and looking back on it with this video the crazy stuff they did I think is what cemented my love of the wacky and out there stuff in wrestling to this day. Thanks for the awesome trip down memory lane!
This is why I loved the ruthless aggression era more than the attitude era. I watched both. I feel attitude era gets more love just based off nostalgia but the ruthless aggression era had crazier better storylines with a lot better matches too
Now I understand why my mom got so mad because we watched wrestling with my brother, I was 7 at the time watching this lmao
SmackDown! in 2004, while it wasn’t the greatest year for it, it still was a fun time😊. Eddie Guerrero as champ, JBL’s rise to the top and his crazy racist sh*t😂🤣, Undertaker returning, John Cena being a boss as always, Kurt Angle as GM, Big Show being a monster again, the GM debut of Teddy Long, and many more awesomeness. While Raw was better at the time, this was such an underrated time for SmackDown!, and I’ll gladly replay it all for the nostalgia😊. Glad you’re back, bro, and I hope you have a safe day and weekend.❤️
Raw was a better show in 04
As a 7/8 Year Old watching it go from Heel Lesnar to JBL, Cena's biggest Year building him towards the Main Event, Kurt Angle making me hate him unlike anyone else since he was my biggest hero in 2003 and turned Heel against Eddie. Taker returning from being buried alive and my first live exposure to the actual "Deadman." Rey being awesome, Booker being cool, Eddie being the top Face next to Taker on Smackdown along with The first Year of T-Lo being the GM.
Add in Day of Reckoning, SVR, and the overall culture of 2004 from TV, Music, Magazines etc as an 8 Year Old. Fun times on the Blue Brand.
One of the craziest things imo that you didn't talk about was when Vince came out during a brawl and angrily introduced Smackdown's new GM... Theodore R. Long? You could hear a pin drop as everyone was shocked and confused as he was a heel GM for a night on Raw in January. It was an even more shocking when he turned babyface and put up Booker T's US title in an elimination match. A sudden babyface turn that led to tag team matches and heels going one-on-one with the Undertaker! Holla Holla!
Was waitin on this part otc 🤣
I loved when Christian was drafted to SmackDown and Teddy started calling him Kristen.
I absolutely remember the Cena stabbing story with Carlitos guy Jesus. It was absolutely the most intense thing they did in 04' along with Angle being thrown off the balcony by Big Show. Also Bearer being buried in cement was majorly out there. This video reminded me of the Heidenrape again.
Funny how the Balcony also led to Perc Angle story wise
The pan to Kurt Angle being thrown off the balcony is what stopped me from watching wrestling until adulthood. It actually scarred me lol. Took me til high school to realize it was fake but I still couldn't get over how real it had looked.
We need more crazy stuff like this. People forget wresting is entertainment and is a tv show not actual sport. They need to have a good balance of wrestling and crazy segments. Thats why the attitude and ruthless aggression era had the best viewership numbers
I never watched wrestling before but used to play SmackDown and loved The Rock but one day I found SmackDown on TV and saw Eddie and The Undertaker's respective matches for the first time ever, and they made me love wrestling and I've been a SmackDown guy ever since. I'll never forget 2004-2008 era, I always used to wait for the Rise Up intro, it's the best for me. God I miss those days!
i swear bro, id always make sure i was on the channel right before it aired jus to catch the iconic intro
I remember all of this too. You're probably too young but this is how crazy the attitude era was too hell it was probably wilder.
2004 was such a fun year, Eddie becoming world champion, Big show chockslaming kurt, JBL vs Eddie fued. Such good times.
The JBL vs Eddie steel cage match was so great
2004 JBL was crazy
Man. I totally forgot all of these happened in 2004 lol crazy
It was a crazy year for Smackdown. I’ll never forget it. What I remember most was getting Day of Reckoning 2 and SD vs Raw. Two of the best WWE games ever.
These old recaps are fire! thanks for making these
I'm glad I stopped watching before 2004 (around 2001, with the ill conceived Austin heel turn and badly done Invasion angle), because this all looks truly awful. No wonder wrestling's popularity has been declining for over 20 years now...
Not everything before 2001 was golden also even though people pretend it is.
@@KnucklesWTD I don't care about opinions, I care about facts. Declining ratings for over 20 years is an objective fact, not a subjective opinion. Wrestling was at its most popular when it appealed to a broader audience (1984-1992 & The Monday Night War Era of 1995-2001) as opposed to appealing to moronic marks who treat a fake televised form of entertainment like it's an actual sport.
@@LeightonCorcoran lol wrestling didn’t start pander to marks until like 2011. Certainly not as soon as 2002.
Wrestling was popular during the attitude era because it was trendy to watch then. Much like how Nu Metal was extremely popular during that same period, and then dropped off the face of the earth in a couple of years. Wrestling is still doing way better than most things that were popular in the 90’s honestly.
UFC became the next trend in the early 2000’s that people flocked to. Then in the mid 2000’s the internet took over. Nowadays in 2023 people barely even watch cable. All of these things have cut into wrestling’s popularity over the past decades.
So yeah ratings are down, but you haven’t analyzed why correctly.
Trends don’t last forever,they last for a couple of years and public moves on to the next trend. And only the hardcore fans stick around afterwards.
@@KnucklesWTD It's pretty obvious what I was saying in my comment, there's no need to put words in my mouth and strawman me. I mentioned a decline, not a sudden vertical drop. Marks existed before 2011, and thanks to a lack of creative direction and bad television driving away normal television viewers, have eventually become the only wrestling fan still watching. Out of sheer dedication or masochism, I don't know. Every single year in the 00's saw a decline in average ratings for the WWE, with the exception of 2005 & 2006 (Which saw a very minor increase in ratings, before falling again in 2007). The decline in ratings coincide with an increasing lack of original storylines, an increase of nonsensical 'wrestling' logic that would be considered insulting to anyone with an average IQ or higher, an increasing lack of genuinely entertaining characters that appeal to people outside of the niche wrestling fanbase, an increasing lack of awareness of anything popular outside of the 'wrestling bubble' that could be incorporated into the product, an increasing emphasis on match quality/longer matches/acrobatics/obviously choreographed spots, an increasingly boring and predictable show with nothing to hold the attention of the average television viewer.......
The less said about TNA's carbon copy WWE with two extra sides, the better.
And I've seen very little of AEW, because I find it to be the epitome of everything wrong with current wrestling.
Lucha Underground was the only decent product that dared to actually be innovative and entertaining post-Monday Night war Era....
But that's dead now.
Yes, Nu Metal was popular once. Like Grunge and Hair Metal before it. And Metalcore and Emo after it. And UFC as a combat sport and boxing before it. And cable as an entertainment medium and internet after it. Your trend examples are always replaced by the next trend within a similar vein......That's the problem. Wrestling never evolved. It never changed to suit the current era. Instead it regressed to this weird insider culture of nerds obsessing over the 'artistic' quality of fake fights consisting of no psychology and overly choreographed sequences with no rhyme, reason, or consequence. This is what wrestling has slowly evolved into. That's all I have to say, really. Bye.
@@LeightonCorcoran Marks didn’t have a real voice in the 2000’s except certain crowds. Guys like Brock, Cena, Orton, Triple H, Jeff, Batista were the biggest guys on the roster at that time and none of those guys were really mark favorites. Marks hated them actually. Marks back then liked Guys like Jericho, Benoit, Christian, Kurt, RVD, etc.
it wasn’t until CM Punk started becoming a main eventer things got out of hand in that regard. All marks worship him.
An overlooked problem Wrestling has now is the negative stigma of being “fake” with MMA and UFC around. It’s become a trend to hate wrestling for that reason ironically.
Wrestling will always have an uphill battle with the masses because of that. Especially when you have Twitter,and instagram, and we can see all of these wrestlers lives offscreen now instantly. Only way to fix that is to make wrestling unscripted real fights.
My favorite memory of SmackDown in 2004 is The Legendary battle Royal
Eddie, Kurt , JBL we’re some of the best to ever do it on smack down , not only the wrestling but the roles and character they played as well
These videos are so well made. You really capture how incredible wrestling was growing up.
The episode where Eddie beat the Big Show and Big Show started going wild backstage was the very first episode of wrestling I ever watched. All it took was for me to hear Eddies theme song and see him one time and I was hooked!
Poor UPN they must have been losing sponsors left and right !
How do you tell Pizza Hut " yeah we have a lot of death angles "
I was just watching this whole year of Smackdown. So many legendary feuds.
When Kurt Angle became the GM of SmackDown! 2004 he went from the Olympic Gold Medalist into Professor X Angle.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The biggest acting and looking like a big wild gorilla line about Big Show was hilarious and so true😂😂😂
You had me rolling all video. Took me back to being 10 watching all of this. Crazy times brotha 😂
❤️
@@WrestlinGifs man this was my favorite time in wrestling I miss this era me and you had the exact same childhood 2004 Smackdown was wild and JBL was the embodiment of evil and cena getting stabbed oh damn John is beastly
2004 JBL was just a monster and then the story of cena getting stabbed was Insane as Hell 😂
I started watching WWE in 2002, so this time period is definitely familiar! UPN and Cole & Tazz on commentary really brings back the memories
I love these videos fam😂😂😂 the nostalgia is REAL
Ewwww. A black
The insane thing is eddie's mom actually had a VERY REAL heart attack. That storyline was insane and if eddie's mom didn't turn out okay in the end it's safe to say JBL would've been the most hated man in the wwe to the Spanish community. Hell, in an interview JBL said he had to get a police escort
Lol yup he has to get police escort of El Paso Texas 😂😂
Most poor kids remember this time fondly. It was one of the shows they'd show over antenna TV. Real ones understand the struggle of messing around tv antennas.
Bro. Thank you so much for this. This was my childhood. A weekly WFT. Every time o think about how sensitive society has gotten I think back to all the wild shit that used to happen on WWE programming. Search Brock Lesner vs Zack Gowan and see how far we’ve come
While I watched bits and pieces of wrestling, 2004 SmackDown will always hold a special place in my heart as it was year I became invested in the sport.
I started watching Smackdown in 2002 until 2005. I was in my 20s at the time and didn't know anything about the attitude era, or that Raw existed! I started getting board after Brock Lesnar left and JBL became champion.
That “I Want it All” intro on Smackdown was 🔥🔥
The good ol days of smackdown. I miss em
Smackdown in the 2000s was pure gold
I was in the 5th grade in 2004 when I tell you every Monday and every Thursday I was tuned in from Raw to Smackdown I couldn’t miss it for anything and going to school the next day to talk about 2004 was probably my favorite year watching wrestling
The wwe had some great story writers back in the day, top tier
Storylines were like something out of the Jerry Springer show
SmackDown 04 was brilliant. Anyone who was too young at the time will not understand.
It was lame honestly. SD fell off hard around this time
@@elijahloveell8809 It felt like Vince Russo writing.
@@elijahloveell8809no it was better than today by a mile
@@kdeb92968 Typical nostalgia
@@elijahloveell8809 you missed out
7:20 Eddie's mom was supposed to fake the heart attack but had a real one and people thought she was acting so reactions were slightly delayed but she still made it
I remember coming across Smackdown back in 2004 flipping between channels and seeing all this insanity happening before my very eyes. This was around the same time I started watching wrestling on a weekly basis.
Needless to say, I picked a very strange time to start becoming a fan.
@jabron.destoroyahYou ain’t never lied 💯
@jabron.destoroyahwrestling peaked 3 years before this.
9:53 it shoulda been Kenny Dykstra vs Hidenreich for the title
It would have been cool to have Brock on Smackdown at the time so many dream matches
Just the fact that all the dicey stuff that happened during Eddie's Feuds (From the Mariachi Band with Brock to everything involving JBL) was his Ideas is hilarious to me
By far my favourite era. Just started secondary school in 2005 and made friends who happen to like wrestling also. We'd manage to chip in money and watch the ppvs together. I miss those times. The storylines were on peak at those times.
I swear that WWE secretly hired Vince Russo back during this time period gave him a pen and paper and told him to do whatever he wanted cause this sounds like some crazy stuff he would come up with 😂😂😂
Im 28 now and I’m so out of words to describe how thankful i am that I was young and alive in this time period and witnessed this live every Friday night. By far the best part of my childhood .. being young everything felt so real 🫡🧡
I was born in 1997 so my earliest memories are of the Attitude Era but my wrestling obsession was cemented in this era. Seeing Eddie do the Frog Splash off the cage onto JBL blew my mind. I hated JBL so much 😂😂
WWE needs to hire back the writers from back then to make WWE watchable again
Wwe is very PG now so it’s never going to happen the only thing good about wwe is the bloodline storyline every thing else is either cringe or just boring & played out
@@Kibeauxi thought wwe was tv-14 now??
@@Kibeaux weird not cringe correct yourself
@@Wedarealsinnasnah, they're still PG
@@KibeauxWWE isn't as PG as it was. It's still pretty wild, especially Raw.
I remember all of this...golden times , the 2004 was awesome in so many ways
Heel Yeah, WWE in 2004 in General was BATSH💩T INSANE and I Love It😁
I was born in November of 2004. What a time to be in the womb
I swear! That roster was pretty thin but they pulled out all the stops and completely dominated wrestling 🔥
@jabron.destoroyah They basically had no Legends other than The Undertaker in that roster. Although Kurt Angle was bound to be a legend, I wouldn't consider him Legendary at that point.
They also promoted Eddie and Bradshaw to main event status in that year too. John Cena was also fresh too. They basically created so much with a bunch of new Stars. While Raw was coated with Legends and Stars, yet they couldn't keep up.
HAHAHAHA you did Big Show dirty bro. NEANDERTHAL.
The REASON all this wasn't a PROBLEM BACK THEN is cause, NOBODY wasn't offended by it yes it made you mad but you enjoyed it and couldn't get enough of the STUFF and wanted more every Smackdown Week
Brock leaving, the likes of Edge, Matt Hardy and Shelton Benjamin being moved over to Raw, Kurt Angle and Big Show injuries, and SmackDown still made it happen and put on great shows in 2004
I miss the early 2000’s wrestling era.
Honestly this creative is 10x better than the storylines of today
Smackdown's 2004 was full of compelling storylines. From your typical wrestling show that served as the land of opportunity, the storylines kicked up another level. JBL became a top heel overnight and his cabinet nipped at Evolution for the top heel faction in the company. The ending of the JBL vs Guerrero Texas Bull Rope match was heartbreaking and Cena became a rising top face. Hell, Eddie cut a promo telling Vickie to turn the TV off and tuck their kids in.
Even the lower card wrestlers had storylines like chavo vs Jacqueline and Paul London vs Billy Kidman
Billy Kidman and Paul London's feud worked for a reason. They hated each other in real life. How they managed to not destroy each other for real is a display of professionalism between both of them.
@@tristancreedfor real haha damn Paul London got beef with everyone
@@pleaseshutup7053 Honestly, this part, I didn't know until now. 🤣
@@tristancreed lol I will always be on Londons side after he told the story he was punished after doing that spot in the royal rumble where he takes that crazy clothesline bump
We need the follow up “JBL is a menace” video
That opening clip, how was vince getting away with this 😭
Simple : Cause he is Vince McMahon he can get away with everthing
Smackdown 2002-2007 was the greatest smackdown run era ever
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To sum it up: The Ruthless Aggression era was the late 90s babies’ Attitude Era 💯😂 the quality of the matches and the storylines was just a time to be alive
4:19 Here are the reasons
1) Brock Lesnar left and no one on Smackdown was a big heel that wasnt Big Show. Albert/A-Train, Luther Reigns, and Matt Morgan were everyone's favorite punching bug that lost heat.
2) WWE writers ran out of ideas to keep Eddie as WWE champion.
3) Triple H didn't wanna work Tuesdays!
- Drop Mic
I actually preferred Smackdown to Raw at this time. Lotta memories
because JBL was the better champion. Benoit was incredibly boring
@@JokerG16 couldn’t say to be honest. Didn’t always watch a full 2 hours of Raw around this time. But yea JBL carried the heel feuds on Smackdown as champion that year
I was 11 seeing all of this live… man I was so lucky to be at that age at that time to see this prime
Thank you! Do you know how many people hated this program? I loved Smackdown in 2004. It was one of my favorite programs of all time. I watch so many stuff from the show that year. Too bad it wasn't drawing all that well in the ratings. Hey. Do Smackdown in 2008. Very interesting program as well.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, I don't love SmackDown in 2004 because guys like Lesnar leaving, lot of bad filler PPVs, HHH traded back to RAW after drafted to the blue brand, Undertaker's comeback as the deadman was disappointing, Angle being a evil GM on a wheelchair, etc. Despite the good and insanely stuff SmackDown put through.
It’s cuz as a guy who was born in 1993 and started watching WWF since late 1999, everything after 2001 was just a downgrade and that attitude fee died along with it and it wasn’t as fun anymore but it was definitely watchable tho. Comparing the ruthless aggression era to whatever WWE produced after 2014 is gold
@@theworldisimmense2005 was better than 2001 and upon a rewatch 99 wasnt that good either
No ratings? What are you smoking bro
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 lol not good in 1999? , smackdown in the year 2000 was the greatest thing ever , wrestling was at its peak of entertainment. Mid carders we’re getting massive pops. Not much in 2004
I was 12 at this time and while I enjoyed it, WWE in 2004 wasn't anywhere near as good as it had been in years prior.
I’m so glad I grew up in the ruthless aggression era!
Best era!
Kurt Angle gettin chokeslamed off a random arena stadium in the back is the most underrated funniest moment ever 💯😭
Smackdown in 2004 was fucking incredible because a main event, tag team, midcard, cruiserweights mama and rising up-and-coming stars... it really felt like everyone on the roster had a place on the show. In my opinion, it was better than what raw was doing at the time because everything was revolving around evolution.
I would say RAW was better in 2004-2005 after Brock left. Raw got better at that time while smackdown was nowhere as good as it was in 2002-2003.
@@darkundeadBenoit and lesnar leaving hurt and Kurt being hurt half the year. JBL vs Brock would have been a great feud
@@darkundeadYou had the likes of Cena, Eddie and Angle to compensate
You just had to jinx it that SmackDown *WASN'T FUCKING INCREDIBLE AT THAT TIME!* *IT WAS FUCKING INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE!* Guys like Brock Lesnar leaving, HHH drafting to SD until traded back to RAW for more shenanigans, Kurt being a evil GM on a wheelchair, A concrete crypt match which doesn't make sense, the blue brand of losers despite Eddie Guerrero and John Cena being popular stars carrying the blue brand and JBL being the longest-reigning champ in history of the show and brand. There were lot of bad and terrible matches with weird shit going on.
Also, SmackDown wasn't better than RAW in 2004. At least it was 10X better than RAW in 2002-03.
This brings me back. The year l truly became a wrestling fan and it was all because of Smackdown.
Nah bro I’m currently rewatching 2004 right now and this shit floored me several time. Smackdown was wild af! 😂😂😂
2002-2005 Smackdown was the best wrestling ever produced. The real height of the actual quality of the product.
i love watching these retrospectives of old wrestling cause i either wasn’t alive or didn’t have object permanence (was born 2003)
I feel sorry for you. You didn't catch good wrestling. Today Pro Wrestling is a shell of what he was. RIP WWE
@@paulheymansguy1772you’re a clown
same born in the same year i only caught the end of the ruthless aggression era which was 07 to early 08
It’s went downhill since
Brian Gerwitz (former wwe writer) could probably try his best to answer these questions for you 😂
The reason why JBL became so successful as a heel is because he didn’t really need to act or play a character, he played himself.
From what I’ve see on his Twitter, he naturally thinks the way his character did.
Eddie's mum literally had a heart attack there btw. It was meant to be kayfabe but she ended up having a real heart attack.
Smackdown at the year 2004 was wild 😆 but still it's part of our childhood ❤️what a time to be alive as a wrestling fan
JBL was so lethal😂😂😂
Gosh smackdown during the ruthless aggression era was a thing of beauty such a great time to be wrestling fan. Raw was great also but Smackdown was where the GOATED stuff was at.
The early to mid 2000's were already a wild as hell time but for Smackdown, wild was just your average Saturday
Smackdown back then was lit 🔥🔥
Yo that heidenreich segment with Michael Cole was wild. I hope vince didn't pitch this😂
Smackdown in 2004 was fucking crazy especially after brock left can't believe this happened 19-years ago time flies Kurt Angle Getting Chokeslammed off a balcony was absolutely insane JBL Vs Eddie guerrero was crazy great video.
John Cena reaction to JBL mexican hunting video is hilarious
SmackDown 2004. What a time. I was 14. Going to 7th grade. Living in a new house down in Astoria after a year of moving from Steinway. Watched ppvs at my uncle Kali's house (shout out to my cousin Janet), traveled to Mexico for one month in August for the first time since 1993. It's been a crazy year for creative to make such rambunctious storylines. Heyman quits being GM after 5 months. The return of the Undertaker as the Deadman at WrestleMania. Eddie Guerrero and money bags JBL wrestled at Judgment Day on my 14th birthday weekend. Kurt Angle goin Lex Luthor made superstars' life hell as GM. Paul Bearer buried alive in a Concrete Crypt. John Cena got pulled off TV from gang assault and ruptured his kidneys till his return at Survivor Series. Big Show went off tv too until his incredible comeback demolishing every superstar on SmackDown. Mordecai, the pale rider, going wannabe Ministry Undertaker all in a white hooded gown punishing superstars. Heidenreich wrecked havoc, killing Undertaker. Making kids cry, kidnapping Michael Cole reading poetry to him and his sick demented behavior made me not watch SD for a week or 2, he then wanting to commit suicide on top of the SmackDown fist. Kurt Angle fooled us fans thinking he got legitimately hurt. Carlito spat people in the face during his vignettes. My man Teddy Long began his career as the longest-tenured General Manager in SD history. JBL goin full racist on the Mexican community and stepped over the line protecting the border which was awfully terrible. My parents were dissing thinking is this for real that hes doing? She like the Eddie/JBL match at Judgment Day was the most bloody and brutal match ever. I looked back that it was a crazy and insane time but had it brought back today think about what it would be like today. For nearly 20 years what time it was. Those are the moments and the memories of what makes SmackDown special.
as a guillible 4rd grader, Paul Bearer getting buried in cemment was so traumatizing
WILD times on 2004 Smackdown but I would relive it all over again